Changes

• myrepos: cache fixes (1 2 3 4 5 6)
• foxtrotgps: remove cruft (1 2 3), typo, links (1 2)
• whowatch: document release keys, typos, undefined behaviour, autoconf improvements (1 2 3 4 5 6 7), portability (1 2 3), signals (1 2 3 4)
• check-all-the-things: fix --all
• diffoscope: docs
• lintian: exim/apache obsolete, fix terminology
• spelling dictionaries:
  • codespell: opeation(s), progam, suscribe(d), genered, buss(es), enty, mixure, prepresent(ed/s), traditiona, identifyable, taylored, feeback, convenince, anarquis(m/t), progrmae, constrast, cointain(s/ed), lincese(s/ed), usibility, directoies, retun, obeserve, copyritght(s/ed), refertence(s/ed), obay, explenation, rewrited, timestemp(s)
  • lintian: opeation(s), progam, suscribe(d), genered, attemp(ed), addressess, buss(es), enty, mixure, prepresent(s/ed), sponser, traditiona, identifyable, lest strict taylored, feeback, convenince, have to be pass, anarquis(m/t), progrmae, constrast, cointain(s/ed), lincese(s/ed), usibility, directoies, retun, obeserve, copyritght(s/ed), refertence(s/ed), obay, explenation, rewrited, timestemp(s)
• Debian package tracker: typos (1 2)
• Debian security tracker: Apple NFUs, SAML vulns (1 2), NodeSecurity sync (1 2 3 4 5 6)
• Debian website: update Tcl/Tk policy links
• Debian wiki pages: BOINC, BootLoader, BSP/2018/03/al/Tirana, CopyrightReviewTools, DebianBuster, DebianDesktop/Requalification/Jessie, DebianHardware, DebianInstaller/HumanReadableChangelogs/LennyBeta1, DebianTesting, Debtags/SearchHelp, Derivatives/Census (PureOS, Purism, Ubuntu), EmbeddedCodeCopies, Firefox, Firmware, Fonts/Bugs/rfn-violation, Hardware/ShippingWithDebian, InstallingDebianOn, (Acer, (AspireOne, (it, ru, -D250-1821, /Discussion)), Microsoft/Windows/SubsystemForLinux), JeremiahFoster, ko/SSDOptimization, LegoDesigners, LennyIllustratedInstall, MilenaLavanchy, Mobile, nblythe, PaulWise/InterestingSoftware, PortsDocs/BootstrappingRust, PortTemplate, pt_BR/InstallingDebianOn/Acer/AspireOne, QemuUserEmulation, REVU, ru/DebianRussian, ServicesHosting, SSDOptimization, Teams/DPL/New, UpstreamGuide
• DebConf wiki pages: DebConf18

Issues

• Crashes in gedit, diffoscope, groff, firefox, firefox-esr, evolution, gitlab-cli, evolution-data-server
• Incompatibility between Linux and wireless-regdb
• Regressions in evolution, bash-completion (1 2)
• Features in shellcheck, aptitude, evolution, undertime, lintian (1 2 3 4), whowatch (1 2), gedit-plugin-translate, diffoscope, DDPO, tracker.debian.org
• Conffile handling in xul-ext-https-everywhere, ccrypt, evolution
• Missing deps in urlwatch
• Missing info in tracker.debian.org
• Incorrect info in python3-neutron-lbaas, python3-neutron-dynamic-routing, python3-neutron-fwaas, searx
• Switch to automation for libfftw3-dbg
• Minor issues in debian-policy, tracker.debian.org, libexif
• Broken symlink in firefox

Review

• Spam: reported 1 Planet Ubuntu post, 6 LWN comments and 240 Debian mailing list posts
• Debian packages: sponsored urlwatch (1 2), streamlink (1 2), mwic
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved android-permissions aoflagger dia-shapes djview4 drivel firefox fotoxx gexec gmpc gparted hardinfo i2pd ldap-account-manager mlterm mpc png-definitive-guide pragha qutebrowser ristretto vnstat vnstati wsclean xmonad
  • rejected horae (don't submit bugs in screenshots), colorize (help ouput)
  • rejected deletion of oxygen-cursor-theme-extra/beneath-a-steel-sky (nonsense reason), prometheus (screenshots are versioned) apt (don't submit bugs in screenshots),

Administration

• myrepos: delete long merged branches, cherry-pick ancient patch
• whowatch: migrate files to github, ask for updating website
• Debian: debug LDAP server outage, grumble at bogus SpamCop report, redirect archive support request, apply LDAP CGI patch
• Debian mentors: fix UDD importer auth issue
• Debian wiki: redirect support requests, investigate HTTP 500 error, investigate stray tmp file, whitelist email domains, whitelist email addresses
• Debian package tracker: deploy latest code

Sponsors

All work was done on a volunteer basis.

Changes

• whohas: Fedora x86_64
• myrepos: register improvements (1 2 3 4), link Debian bugs, fix perl dependency, shebang, webcheckout security updates (1 2 3 4), deterministic output, code formatting (1 2), status (hg no pager, idiomatic for cvs), vis for more git variants, docs (1 2), output control (1 2), directory control, command construction (1 2 3), cache support (1 2 3 4 5), add upgrade, graph, cache-mr-status.sh extensions, add news, upstream meta-data
• harmony: system librecaptcha, encoding
• librecaptcha: encoding
• spelling dictionaries:
  • codespell: oriente, condtion variants, theoreticall, unitialize, disalb(e), coneect(ed), approrpriate(ly), gnorung, ontrolled, wheather, failt, optet, obsolte(d), effekt
  • lintian: oriente, scaleable, condtion variants, theoreticall, unitialize, disalb(e), coneect(s/ed), over ridden, wih, approrpriate(ly), gnorung, ontrolled, wheather, failt, optet, obsolte(d), effekt
• Debian QA services: links, lintian.log (1 2)
• Debian PTS: https, lintian.log
• Debian UDD: https, lintian.log
• Debian security tracker: ceph-deploy accepted (1 2)
• Debian puppet: redirect mips64el
• Debian website: alioth.d.o to d.o for links (blends), https for links (backports, blends, bugs, planet, anonscm, manpages, cdimage-search), spi-inc.org link updates, LinuxJournal award
• Debian package uploads: harmony (1 2), librecaptcha (1 2 3)
• Debian sysadmin wiki: link to tips
• Debian wiki pages: BuilddSetup, debian/watch, Derivatives/Census/HandyLinux, DeveloperNews (1 2 3), Diagrams (1 2), Fonts, InstallingDebianOn/Lenovo/ThinkPad E540, LTS/Wheezy/SpectreMeltdown, M68k/Porting, Mentoring, Outreachy/Round15, PaulWise/InterestingSoftware, research/publications, Scanner, Sprints, Statistics, SummerOfCode2018 (Projects/RadiatorThermovalveReverseEngineering), Teams (Debbugs/Spam, DPL/Reimbursement, ReleaseTeam/ReleaseCheckList), UltimateDebianDatabase, ValentinHaenel
• Debian screenshots: add python3-harmony, python3-librecaptcha

Issues

• Crashes in nagstamon, qa.d.o dose-job
• Errors loading gnome-shell-extension-show-ip
• Expired certificates in screenshots.debian.net
• Features in needrestart (1 2), distro-tracker (1 2), harmony, debtags.d.o, systemd, apt, lintian, shellcheck
• Missing symbols in dbus-c++, tcl-expect
• Terminal handling in undertime
• Missing dependencies in webext-https-everywhere, webext-browserpass
• Missing package in debtags.d.o
• Errors in qa.d.o carnivore
• Useless fields in ftp.d.o Sources
• Assertions in vapicheck
• Formatting issues in ddupdate, undertime
• Incorrect description in python3-murano
• Garbage collection in librecaptcha
• Homepage update for unar

Review

• Spam: reported 1 LWN comment, 14 Debian bug reports and 226 Debian mailing list posts
• Debian packages: sponsored minidb (1 2), urlwatch (1 2)
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved alttab aseba bart-view colmap dispcalgui dwm fbcat fbreader fonts-beteckna fonts-essays1743 fonts-league-spartan gchempaint libreoffice libreoffice-gtk2 libreoffice-gtk3 overlay-scrollbar-gtk3 pikopixel.app plinth qt5ct quodlibet searx ser-player ser-player silverjuke task-kde-desktop tiger urlwatch
  • rejected task-kde-desktop (with software not in Debian), cwltool (logo), pokemmo (package removed, non-free game), pokemmo-installer (non-free game), passwordsafe (not Debian), arduino (upstream), gnome-keyring/gcr/pinentry-qt (not a user support site)
  • approved deletion of phototonic (another package)
  • rejected deletion of plymouth-themes/stoken (weird reason), rygel/hydra-gtk (not a support site), firefox (screenshots are versioned), screenfetch (not the place for upstream disputes)

Administration

• myrepos: merge patches, triage bugs
• Debian: forward domain expiry, discuss sensitive files with service maintainer
• Debian QA: bug triage
• Debian package tracker: deploy latest code
• Debian mentors: check why package wasn't uploaded, restart importer after crash
• Debian wiki: remove extraneous tmp file, fix user email address, unblacklist IP addresses, whitelist email addresses, whitelist email domain
• Debian website: investigate translation update issue

Communication

• Send Debian DevNews 45
• Reported on negotiating ownership of libre code
• Initiate discussions about pyapi-gitlab vs python-gitlab, including cppcheck results in distro-tracker

Sponsors

The work on harmony and librecaptcha was sponsored by my employer. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.

Changes

• whohas: related software
• codespell: typos
• foxtrotgps: switch from GConf to GSettings
• spelling dictionaries:
  • codespell: accapt(ed), consifer(ed), defered, timout, unncessary, bumpded, certificat, acount(s), perference(s), temproary, lenghtening, tranport, invalide, ACII
  • lintian: accapt(ed), consifer(ed), unncessary, bumpded, certificat, acount(s), perference(s), temproary, lenghtening, tranport, invalide, ACII
• Debian Planets: update Apertis logo
• Debian fakeupstream: support Python __version__ in files in commits (1, 2)
• Debian derivatives census: git for Planet Debian
• Debian puppet: wafer referrers
• Debian portfolio: add salsa
• Debian security tracker: https, normalise CVE identifiers, redmine RCE, CVE-2017-9801 NFU status, CVE-2018-1294 fixed, CVE-2017-7516 patch
• Debian testing migration: drop dupe excuse
• Debian package uploads: purple-discord, harmony (0.2.2-1 0.2.2-2), librecaptcha (0.2.0-1 0.2.0-2)
• Debian wiki config: salsa
• Debian wiki pages: BIOS, BSP, (2018/03/al/Tirana), DebianDay (2018), DebianEvents/be/2018/FOSDEM, DebianLogo, Derivatives (FrontDesk, Integration), DesktopEnvironment (1 2), DeveloperNews, Firmware (Updates (1 2)), gsoc, GSoC, ia64, InstallingDebianOn (Acer/Spin1, SolidRun (CuBox, CuBox-i)), JigdoOnLive, LTS/Development, PaulWise/InterestingSoftware, PressCoverage (2018), RISC-V, Salsa/FAQ, Sprints, SummerOfCode (2018/Projects/FreedomBoxContainer), Teams (ReleaseTeam/ReleaseCheckList, Treasurer/Organizations, WindowMaker), X32Port, Year
• File Formats wiki pages: Dalvik_Executable
• Wikipedia: List_of_version_control_software (all reverted: 1 2 3)

Issues

• Crashes in apt, evolution, Xwayland, gnome-shell (1 2), GNOME gitlab, nautilus, torbrowser-launcher
• False positives in duck
• Incompatibility in gnome-shell-extension-show-ip
• Incorrect glyph in VL Gothic
• Liberation of the OmniGraffle format
• Features in tracker.debian.org, adequate, lintian (1 2 3 4), debian-dad, needrestart (1 2), harmony (1 2), diffoscope (1 2 3)
• New versions of youtube-dl
• Code issues in ncdu
• Cruft in kytos-utils
• Missing symbols in libsnmp30, libhpmud0, libmpx2, libparted-fs-resize0
• List formatting in mblaze
• Intents to package purple-discord, harmony, librecaptcha

Review

• Spam: reported 2 LWN comments 8 Debian bug reports and 229 Debian mailing list posts
• Debian packages: reviewed urlwatch, minidb and sponsored streamlink (1 2)
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved animals blender breeze-icon-theme ember firefox-locale-hu fontypython formiko geeqie iraf kde-standard klystrack leafnode libreoffice libreoffice-math mate-applet-brisk-menu mricron papirus-icon-theme photofilmstrip psk31lx putty python3-pyraf python-link-grammar qt5ct rma speedpad xtide xtide-coastline
  • rejected tuxpaint (just a dot), cinnamon (probably non-free imagery), tipp10 (not on Debian), xinit/default-jdk (other software), faenza-icon-theme/herculesstudio (upstream screenshots), xtide-data-nonfree (package from non-free)
  • approved deletion of pegsolitaire (wrong package)
  • rejected deletion of gkamus/budgie-keyboard-autoswitch-applet (spam reason), tellico (non-understandable reason)

Administration

• Debian: try to regain OOB access to a host, try to connect with a hoster, restart bacula after db restart, provide some details to a hoster, add debsnap to snapshot host, debug external email issue, redirect users to support channels
• Debian mentors: redirect to sponsors, teach someone about dput .upload files, check why a package disappeared
• Debian wiki: unblacklist IP address, whitelist email addresses, whitelist email domain, investigate DocBook output crash

Communication

• Initiate discussion about ingestion of more security issue feeds
• Invite LinuxCNC to the Debian derivatives census

Sponsors

I renewed my support of Software Freedom Conservancy.

The Discord related uploads (harmony, librecaptcha, purple-discord) and the Debian fakeupstream change were sponsored by my employer. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.

Changes

• foxtrotgps: support Python 3 (1 2), Python sqlite3, BeautifulSoup 4, feedparser 'where', W3C GeoRSS, descriptionless GeoRSS
• dpkg: add version details
• debian-goodies: find-dbgsym-packages ignore installed, -dbg fallback, cleanups (1 2 3 4)
• spelling dictionaries:
  • codespell: lik, unconditionnal(y), advane(d), netowrk(s), strech, checkstum, possibily
  • lintian: lik, unconditionnal(y), advane(d), netowrk(s), checkstum, possibily
• Debian Planets: https, update Cumulus Linux logo
• Debian BTS usertags: cleanup of user typos, abbreviations, non-existent lists etc
• Debian derivatives census: 1 MiB patch limit, syntax fix
• Debian QA services: sources.d.o, fix popcon graphs, excuses links, git migration
• Debian buildd website: sources.d.o
• Debian dose: sources.d.o
• Debian package tracker: sources.d.o, deb.d.o, help bugs (1 2), newcomer fixes (1 2)
• Debian PTS: sources.d.o (1 2), git migration (1 2), oldoldstable-updates fix, policy 4.1.3
• Debian security tracker: ROBOT, woff2/brotli embeds, cleanup
• Debian puppet: https, upper-case (bugs etc) redirects
• Debian website: update testing links, add astro blend
• Debian wiki pages: AdditionalDebianMailingLists, EmbeddedCodeCopies, FPGA, Hardening/RepoAndImages, InstallingDebianOn/Asus/T100HA (1 2), KansaiDebianMeeting, MemberBenefits, Multiarch/Implementation, PaulWise/InterestingSoftware, PolicyKit, Qbs (1 2), QBS, Salsa/Doc, ServicesSSL, SocialEventAndConferenceCalendars, Teams (Debbugs/ArchitectureTags (1 2), Treasurer/Organizations)

Issues

• Crashes in gnome-shell (1 2), tracker/sqlite3, upower, plymouth, virt-sandbox, pidgin, needrestart-session
• Broken links in lists.d.o
• Missing files in thermald
• Dependencies in openbox
• Underlinking in libunwind
• Conffile removal in reiserfsprogs, thermald, firejail-profiles, marble-data, cups-filters, speech-dispatcher
• Features in lintian (1 2 3), bls/bls-standalone, qemu-user-static, debsecan, wiki.d.o, adequate
• Meta-data in libsqlite3-0-dbg
• Switch to automation for libtk8.6-dbg, libtcl8.6-dbg
• New versions of python-mechanicalsoup
• Typos in linux-compiler-gcc-7-x86, needrestart
• Packaging needed for robobrowser
• File overwriting in glhack
• Unactionable warnings in qa.d.o, shared-mime-info, apt
• Minor issues in lintian

Review

• Spam: reported 2 LWN comments, 8 Debian bug reports and 254 Debian mailing list posts
• Debian packages: sponsored streamlink, open-ath9k-htc-firmware
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved adlibtracker2 aladin allure budgie-countdown-applet budgie-keyboard-autoswitch-applet budgie-previews-applet budgie-quicknote-applet budgie-showtime-applet budgie-window-mover-applet cdck chess.app colordiff elpa-fountain-mode eyes17 fonts-noto-color-emoji gnome-games-app grisbi herbstluftwm konsole lambdahack ncmpcpp nudoku nudoku nwipe pidgin-skype qpxtool rgxg screen stumpwm xfburn xmonad
  • rejected gtk-sharp3 (some other software), firmware-linux-nonfree (not a bug reporting website), dwarf-fortress (non-free)
  • rejected deletion of gkamus (spam reason), screen/gnome-packagekit (bogus reason)

Administration

• Debian: fix sbuild config on buildd, cleanup after git gc OOM, redirect CD support queries, answer SSH hash question again
• Debian QA: deploy patches
• Debian mentors: check why package was not imported
• Debian installer: apply patches
• Debian PTS: investigate issues after git migration, apply patch, deploy patches
• Debian package tracker: deploy patches, update mirror URL in db
• Debian mentors: remove a broken upload
• Debian wiki: redirect a bouncing mail, whitelist email addresses
• Debian website: work on git conversion
• Debian derivatives census: deploy change, remove patches larger than 1MiB
• Openmoko: forcibly reboot

Communication

Initiate discussions about m68k usertags, buildd chroot creation failures and game server packaging.

Sponsors

The dpkg patch was sponsored by my employer. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.

Changes

• myrepos: cleanups (1 2 3 4 5 6), join team, update links (1 2 3), update install, add git-cvs extension
• spelling dictionaries:
  • codespell: (non-)inreractive, acknowleding, aks, anymore, cloack(s), decommissionn(ed), delate, explicite(ly), german, incoporate(d/s), (mac)pakge, partitial, propigation, readapted, respository, restriced, russian, thats, varaible, wasn, thev, descritpion, chracters, segement, anlysis, discription, iff, iif, preambule, exchangable
  • lintian: (non-)inreractive, acknowleding, aks, anymore, cloack(s), decommissionn(ed), delate, explicite, german, (mac)pakge, partitial, publical(y/ly), readapted, regresion, restriced, russian, sucessor, wasn, thev, breif, everytime, exemple, higest, laguage, anlysis, dammage, iff, iif, preambule, exchangable, wil
• Debian developers reference: cleanups
• Debian Planets: https for links
• Debian puppet: children-distros -> derivatives redirects
• Debian security tracker: update links (1 2), redmine, busybox, mistune (1 2)
• Debian website: ftpmaster delegation update, derivatives updates (1 2 3), donations wording fix
• Debian package uploads: flasm 1.62-9, 1.62-10
• Debian wiki pages: CarstenSchoenert, DebianKernel/UserspaceTools, Derivatives/Census (AlienVault-OSSIM, Apertis, Aptosid, ArcheOS, ArchivistaBox, Armbian, AstraLinux), DesktopEnvironment, Diagrams, EmbeddedCodeCopies, Fonts, LTS/Funding, MemberBenefits, Mobile, PaulWise/InterestingSoftware, SaneOverNetwork, Services/DebianFontReview, Statistics,
• DebConf wiki pages: Videoteam/Archive

Issues

• Crashes in wget, gedit-plugin-dashboard, totem
• Hangs in apt
• Upgrade needed on bugs.devuan.org
• Contents header removal for reprepro, apt-file
• Rebuilds needed for debhelper regression
• Limiting needed in github-backup
• Warnings in gnome-terminal
• Features in dman (1 2)

Review

• Spam: reported 1 LWN comment, 1 Debian bug report and 301 Debian mailing list posts
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved anki, base-files, converseen, dwm, eagle, firefox, fonts-dseg, fonts-mplus, foxtrotgps, goxel, nfoview, pdfgrep, pitivi, planetblupi, python3-flask, ratpoison, screenie, supertuxkart, triplea, ucrpf1host, x11-xserver-utils, xorriso, xorriso-tcltk, zsh
  • deleted pdfgrep (manual page)
  • rejected aesfix/kross/ucf/x11-xkb-utils/bluez/base-passwd (usage output), x11-session-utils (manual page)
  • approved deletion of perl (manual page), myrepos (web page)
  • rejected deletion of qhimdtransfer (junk reason), supertuxkart (old screenshots are kept), gkamus (spam), cowsay-off (still an accurate screenshot)

Administration

• hexchat-addons: merged pull request
• Debian: fix LDAP issue, reenable webserver on a VM, redirect users to support channels
• Debian wiki: whitelist email addresses
• Debian website: check on a build issue

Communication

• Invite Slax to the Debian derivatives census

Sponsors

All work was done on a volunteer basis.

Changes

• whohas: Fedora versions
• spelling dictionaries:
  • codespell: compariable, suces, recude, droped, milisecond(s), quit(ing/t), availabilty, (in)sensitve, uncommment, programms, introsepection, compres(ion), mutliple, pacakges, responsing, satisifed, ofo, tiemstamp, individuelly, packe, requireing, unpacke, dianostic
  • lintian: compariable, suces(fully), recude, quitt, availabilty, incidently, (in)sensitve, contian(s), introsepection, pacakges, satisifed, ofo, tiemstamp, individuelly, packe, requireing, unpacke, fixage
• Debian derivatives census: fix word, Python 3 (1 2 3)
• Debian buildd website: add recent build links, fix ordering
• Debian SF uscan redirector: hide OldFiles
• Debian security tracker: redmine issues
• Debian website: update iso639.txt links in translations, change auditor team links to treasurer team links, update CVE assignment documentation links, update outdated translations links, remove Unicode BOM
• Debian BTS usertags: move @alioth.debian.org users to @lists.alioth.debian.org
• Debian package uploads: autorevision 1.21-1, talloc 2.1.9-2~bpo9+1, cmocka 1.1.1-1~bpo9+1
• Debian wiki pages: DebianEvents (fr/2017/Toulouse, gb/2017/MiniDebConfCambridge), DebianKernel/UserspaceTools, DebianLocations, DebianWiki/ko/FeedBack, Derivatives/CensusTemplate, Exploits, ExternalEntities, Glossary, Hardware/Wanted, Mentoring (1 2), MiniDebConf, MultimediaFetchingTools, nspawn, PaulWise/InterestingSoftware, Ports, qa.debian.org/MIATeam, research/publications, skype, Sprints/2017/DebianCloudOct2017, SuitesAndReposExtension, Teams (Debbugs, Teams/ReleaseTeam/ReleaseCheckList)
• File Formats wiki pages: Graphics
• FFmpeg wiki pages: How to speed up / slow down a video

Issues

• Crashes in gnome-disks, gnome-shell, needrestart-session, plymouth, totem, powerdebug, offlineimap
• Removal of firebug
• Regressions in remmina
• New upstream for git-extras
• False positives in needrestart
• Packaging needed for node-web-ext
• Usability issues in bugs.debian.org
• Invalid links in debian-policy
• Conffile removal in bluez
• Warnings issues in dupload, minetest-mod-worldedit, minetest-mod-torches, minetest-mod-moreores, minetest-mod-moreblocks, minetest-mod-pipeworks, minetest-mod-craftguide, minetest-mod-advspawning, minetest-mod-player-3d-armor
• Using deprecated commands in cinnamon-common, cinnamon-core, gedit-latex-plugin, gnome-core, mate-desktop-environment-core, mate-menu, gigolo, gthumb, hexchat, xdg-utils

Review

• Spam: reported 1 LWN comment and 317 Debian mailing list posts
• Debian packages: sponsored minetest-mod-craftguide 1.0-2
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved clips, dictconv, faustworks, geeqie, gsequencer, hannah-foo2zjs, iceowl-extension, latexml, meshlab, needrestart, nzbget, ser-player, siril, tagua, tmate
  • rejected oinkmaster (upstream, Windows/OpenBSD), dvipng (attempted XSS exploit), wadc (macOS), lm-sensors (Arabic board game), ser-player/diffpdf (Windows)
  • approved deletion of spim (Windows)
  • rejected deletion of tuxpaint/winetricks/tails-installer (junk reason), mrboom/kodi (not a deletion request reason)

Administration

• Debian: respond to mail debug request, redirect hardware access seeker to guest account, redirect hardware donors to porters, redirect interview seeker to DPL, reboot system with dead service
• Debian mentors: security updates, reboot
• Debian wiki: upgrade search db format, remove incorrect bans, whitelist email addresses, disable accounts with bouncing email, update email for accounts with bouncing email
• Debian website: remove need for a website rebuild
• Openmoko: restart web server, set web server process limits, install monitoring tool

Sponsors

The talloc/cmocka uploads and the remmina issue were sponsored by my employer. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.

Changes

• myrepos: mention related software
• icns: OpenJPEG 2 fixes (1 2 3 4), fix minor buffer overrun
• check-all-the-things: fix cwd usage, dependencies updates (1, 2), increased verbosity, TODO items (for errcheck, coccinelle, DR.CHECKER, RATS, qmllint, xmlpatternsvalidator, gfapy-validate, phpstan, psalm, ansible-lint)
• spelling dictionaries:
  • codespell: delte, defualt, Debiab, aiffer, syntesis, reprociblbe, thether, suport, mimimum, isssue, reseting
  • lintian: delte, Debiab, aiffer, syntesis, reprociblbe
• Debian Planets: add BCCD, Pardus
• Debian derivatives census: improve db handling
• Debian PTS: fix backports issue
• Debian member portfolio: https (1, 2, 3), drop alioth files, fix duck & lists search
• Debian security tracker: BlueBourne NFUs, u-boot issues, kanboard CVE list fixes, fix version typo
• Debian puppet: SSL exception (1, 2), comment fixes
• Debian website: add missing section title
• Debian wiki pages: AutomaticPackagingTools, CrossCompiling, DebianDevelopment, DebianLive/buster, DebianYeeloong/ko, Derivatives/Census (QA, BCCD, EmmabuntusDE (1, 2), ev3dev, Netrunner (1, 2), Pardus), DeveloperNews, Diagrams, EmDebian/CrossDebootstrap, InstallingDebianOn/Asus/Transformer T300 Chi/Stretch, IRC, JamesAmontgomery, JensKorte/reportbug-by-mail, LocalGroupsTemplate, Mobile, MultimediaFetchingTools, OfflineMasterKey (1, 2), Outreachy/Round15 (Projects/SocialEventAndConferenceCalendars), PaulWise/InterestingSoftware, PortTemplate, qa.debian.org, research/publications, RISC-V, Sprints/2017/DebianCloudOct2017, SystemBuildTools, Teams (Dpkg/FAQ, Publicity/micronews, ReleaseTeam/ReleaseCheckList), template
• File Formats wiki pages: ZED (1, 2)

Issues

• Crashes in firefox-esr, lugaru, minetest-mod-animals
• Conffile removal in fonts-beng-extra
• Upstream renamed openggsn
• Strictness in ftp.d.o
• Features in unattended-upgrades
• Missing hashes in caffeine-developers PPA
• Missing conffile removal in di-netboot-assistant
• Incorrect upgrades in unattended-upgrades
• Incorrect URL in reproducible-check
• Verbosity in github-backup
• Minor issues in unattended-upgrades
• Usability issue in Firefox
• Upstreaming needed for Hone Linux-Sensor
• New upstream version of samba

Review

• Spam: reported 1 LWN comment, 5 Debian bug reports and 338 Debian mailing list posts
• Debian packages: sponsored minetest-mod-unifieddyes 20170925-1
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved banshee, blender, bsdgames, chromium, eficas, elpa-visual-fill-column, elpa-writegood-mode, glirc, gnome-builder, gnome-shell-extension-taskbar, gwenview, knocker, krita, ksysguard, masscan, mediainfo-gui, mousepad, mysql-workbench, nitrogen, ola, pavucontrol, qupzilla, tiger, transmission-gtk, virtualbox, vlc, wavemon, wfuzz
  • deleted mysql-workbench (ugly, Windows), udisks2 (of other software)
  • rejected elpa-* (MacOS and taken from upstream), 0ad (RPi logo), synaptic (weird overlaid stuff), dehydrated (hilarious but not a screenshot), di-netboot-assistant (of other software), wfuzz (help output)
  • approved deletion of udisks2 (of other software), scottfree (manual page), agenda.app (of other software)
  • rejected deletion of reportbug/abe/nlkt (bogus reason)

Administration

• icns: merged patches
• Debian: help guest user with access, investigate/escalate broken network, restart broken stunnels, investigate static.d.o storage, investigate weird RAID mails, ask hoster to investigate power issue,
• Debian mentors: lintian/security updates & reboot
• Debian wiki: merged & deployed patch, redirect DDTSS translator, redirect user support requests, whitelist email addresses, update email for accounts with bouncing email,
• Debian derivatives census: merged/deployed patches
• Debian PTS: debugged cron mails, deployed changes, reran scripts, fixed configuration file
• Openmoko: debug reboot issue, debug load issues

Communication

• Inform derivatives that are using Alioth about the pending shutdown
• Inquire about Netrunner, Pardus in the Debian derivatives census.
• Invite OB2D Linux to the Debian derivatives census
• Welcome Rohan Garg (of Netrunner), Aaron Weeden (of BCCD), Muhammet Kara (of Pardus) to the Debian derivatives census

Sponsors

The samba bug was sponsored by my employer. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.

Changes

• myrepos: fix syntax error
• spelling dictionaries:
  • codespell: wipoing, formend, localation
  • lintian: wipoing, formend, localation
• Debian Planets: add GreenboneOS, Purism PureOS, update Kali logo
• Debian derivatives census: noise removal (1, 2)
• Debian debcheck: update for Debian Policy 4.0.1
• Debian security tracker: glibc CVE-2017-12133
• Debian TLS: video.d.n cert
• Debian puppet: deb.d.o & trailing slashes, video.d.n https
• Debian package uploads: gravitation, passage, primrose, glewmx
• Debian wiki config: drop blacklist for reading (got reverted later), whitespace
• Debian wiki pages: CarstenSchoenert, CrossGrading, Debtags/FAQ, dedup.debian.net, Derivatives (Meetings, Census (Template, BlankOn, CumulusLinux, EmmabuntusDE, GNUSTEP, GreenboneOS, PureOS, Purism (1, 2), SparkyLinux)), DeveloperNews (1, 2), DioPutra, fakechroot, Games, MasterBootRecord, Mobile (1, 2), PaulWise (InterestingSoftware), qa.debian.org, research/publications, SSH, Statistics, Steam, SystemBuildTools, Teams (DebianPerlGroup/OpenTasks, ReleaseTeam (ReleaseCheckList)), TedMarynicz
• Debian website scripts: whitespace fix
• DebConf wiki pages: DebConf17/Accommodation

Issues

• Crashes in mc, aspell, gnome-software
• Umask in cowbuilder
• Errors in confclerk
• Embedded code copies in samba
• Renaming of qupzilla
• Race conditions in gnome-shell-extension-show-ip
• Broken links in debian-policy
• Missing debtags in ftp.debian.org
• Configuration mixing in grub-pc
• Dependency issues in anarchism, fortune-anarchism
• Security issues in SKS keyserver network
• Conffile issues in libqt5gui5
• Weirdness in gdb

Review

• Spam: reported 1 Debian bug reports and 336 Debian mailing list posts
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved amule, audacious, bochs-wx, bochs-x, clipit, conkeror, drumgizmo, gfpoken, gtk-3-examples, julia, kmines, mnemosyne, nedit, pidgin-otr, qdirstat, scram-gui, scram, tcvt, wine, xli
  • rejected doom-wad-shareware (non-free), scram-gui (wrong software?)
  • approved deletion of gtk3-nocsd
  • rejected deletion of drumgizmo (we do not remove old screenshots)

Administration

• myrepos: get commit/admin access from joeyh at DebConf17, add commit/admin access for other patch submitters, apply my stack of patches
• Debian: fix weird log file issues, redirect hardware donor, cleaned up a weird dir, fix some OOB info, ask for TLS on meetings-archive.d.n, check an I/O error, restart broken stunnels, powercycle 1 borked machine,
• Debian mentors: lintian/security updates & reboot
• Debian wiki: remove some stray cache files, whitelist 3 email domains, whitelist some email addresses, disable 1 spammer account, disable 1 accounts with bouncing email,
• Debian QA: apply patch to fix PTS watch file errors, deploy changes
• Debian derivatives census: run scripts for Purism, remove some noise from logs, trigger a recheck, merge fix by Unit193, deploy changes
• Openmoko: security updates, reboots, enable unattended-upgrades

Communication

• Attended DebConf17 and provided some input in BoFs
• Sent Misc Dev News #44
• Invite Google gLinux (on IRC) to the Debian derivatives census
• Welcome Sven Haardiek (of GreenboneOS) to the Debian derivatives census
• Inquire about the status of Canaima

Sponsors

The samba bug report was sponsored by my employer. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.

Changes

• apt: more flexible timing (1, 2, 3), /org to /srv
• apt-offline: remove generated files
• check-all-the-things: add more shell checks
• spelling dictionaries:
  • codespell: bettery, ciruit(s), debugginf, treshold, actuion(able), apendix, behaivior, confimred, meaningfull, registeres, sence, systen, tryed, infrasctructure, current(ly), defaut, pedning, variabele, upstreamedd, nework, ouput
  • lintian: resistence, bettery, ciruit(s), debugginf, actuion, actuionable, apendix, behaivior, confimred, finaly, meaningfull, registeres, sence, systen, tryed, infrasctructure, currnt(ly), defaut, pedning, variabele, upstreamedd
• Debian security tracker: add gsoap CVE-2017-9765
• Debian puppet: stretch fixes (1, 2), failed attempt to kill a mail flood, disable web cache backups
• Debian QA services: email update, https for lintian.d.o, fix issue with by-hash
• Debian build log scanner: https, html log links, ignore uploaders brokenness
• Debian Planets: https for Grml, add Zevenet, Deepin, remove HandyLinux
• Debian website: use ISO dates, no https for archive.d.o
• Debian package uploads: flasm 1.62-8
• Debian wiki pages: DebianDay/2017/Venezuela/Caracas, Derivatives/Census (Template, Deepin, Grml, HandyLinux, Proxmox, SELKS, xanadu, Zevenet), Hardware/Wanted, Infinity0, IRC, JavierFernandezSanguino, LocalGroups/Debian-CN, LTS/Team, MemberBenefits, Mobile, PaulWise/InterestingSoftware, qa.debian.org, ReleasePartyStretch/India/Hyderabad/MGIT, SystemBuildTools
• DebConf wiki pages: DebConf17/DebconfShirts

Issues

• Crashes in MoinMoin, aspell
• Missing sources in apt-offline (reported privately)
• Malformed data in ftp.d.o
• Debug symbols in perl
• Media playback in gstreamer
• Race condition in dehydrated
• Weird errors in translate-shell

Review

• Spam: reported several Debian bug reports and 359 Debian mailing list posts
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved baresip, blender, caja-dropbox, cups, fastnetmon, firetools, fonts-firacode, freecad, gemrb-baldurs-gate-2, gjiten, gscan2pdf, kdevelop, ketm, liguidsoap, lordsawar, mdadm, minizinc-ide, mupdf, musique, nautilus-dropbox, pcsxr, projectl, quiterss, rafkill, redis-server, redshift-gtk, residualvm, sigil, sqlitebrowser, surf, trigger-rally, virtualbox, vis, vizigrep, vokoscreen, xinv3d, yarssr
  • approved deletion of phototonic (Windows screenshot), pipebench (inappropriate background), autossh/gtk3-nocsd (not the package)
  • rejected deletion of muon-discover (we do not remove old screenshots), apt (not a bug reporting site)

Administration

• Debian: fsck/reboot a buildd, reboot a segfaulting buildd, report/fix broken hoster contact, ping hoster about down machines, forcibly reset backup machine, merged cache patch for network-test.d.o, do some samhain dances, fix two stunnel services, update an IP address in LDAP, fix /etc/aliases on one host, reboot 1 non-responsive VM
• Debian mentors: security updates, reboot
• Debian wiki: whitelist several email addresses
• Debian build log scanner: deploy my changes
• Debian PTS: deploy my changes
• Openmoko: security updates & reboots

Communication

• Ping Advogato users on Planet Debian about updating/removing their feeds since it shut down
• Invite deepin to the Debian derivatives census
• Welcome Deepin to the Debian derivatives census
• Inquire about the status of GreenboneOS, HandyLinux

Sponsors

All work was done on a volunteer basis.

Changes

• popularity-contest: update links (1, 2)
• duck: more moved expressions, fix website moved code, fix error message
• check-all-the-things: add clamscan & update C TODO item
• switch from /org to /srv: devscripts: devscripts, dsa-puppet, userdir-ldap, wanna-build, debian-cd (incorrectly attributed), d-i, Debian keyring
• spelling dictionaries:
  • codespell: tomorrrow, tage, upgradingn, downgrate(d), keyworkd(s), encrytion, pyton, flie, developp(e/ement), criticial, colums
  • lintian: tomorrrow, tage, upgradingn, downgrate(d), keyworkd(s), pyton, developp(e), severly
• riscv-isa-manual: typos, update links
• Debian Planets: add AIMS Desktop (logo/feed), Zevenet logo, update Serbian Linux logo, Wazo logo
• Debian derivatives census: reduce warnings noise, add fixme to reduce noise
• Debian security tracker: glibc embeds unicode-data
• Debian portfolio: several changes, none merged yet
• Debian QA services: clean up backports (1, 2), update debian-policy versions, fix typo
• Debian package tracker: strip spaces (1, 2)
• Debian puppet: d-i install guide sudo, generic http service disable, UTF-8 for text files
• Debian website: link to unofficial merchandise, derivatives updates, say debian-www is public, https fixes (1, 2), indentation fixes
• Debian wiki pages: Alioth/GitNext, CrossGrading, DDPortfolio, DebianArt/RequestArtwork, DebianEdu/Documentation/Stretch/HowTo/Administration, DebianJessie, DebianLocations, DebianOldStable, DebianReleases, DebianStable, DebianStretch, DebianUpgrade, Derivatives/Census (AIMS_Desktop, SerbianLinux), DeveloperNews, Exploits, FreedomBox/LeavingTheCloud, Hardware/Wanted, InstallingDebianOn (Dell, Lenovo), manpages.debian.org, Merchandise, Mobile, MultimediaFetchingTools, OpenVPN, PaulWise/InterestingSoftware, ReleasePartyStretch, (Brasil/Parauapebas Greece/Thessaloniki, India/Cochin, Italy/Magione, Italy/Quiliano, Italy/Quiliano, Italy/Varese, UK/Oxford, USA/Atlanta, USA/WashingtonDC), Sprints/2017/OpenStack%20meeting%20and%20sprint%20at%20DebCamp17, SuitesAndReposExtension (1, 2), SystemBuildTools, Teams/Auditor/Organizations, Teams/DebianCD/ReleaseTesting/Stretch, Teams/ReleaseTeam/ReleaseCheckList (1, 2, 3)

Issues

• Viruses/spam/phishing in libmail-deliverystatus-bounceparser-perl
• Crash in gnome-shell
• Outdated docs in ftp.debian.org
• Encoding issues in ftp.debian.org
• Hardcoding in Config::Model::Dpkg
• Link updates in popularity-contest
• Features in debsources
• New versions of spark
• Conffile removal in openvpn
• Prebuilt files in VCS in riscv-isa-manual (1, 2)
• Embedded code copies in riscv-isa-manual
• Verbosity in spamassassin

Review

• Spam: reported 2 LWN comments, 3 Debian bug reports and 315 Debian mailing list posts
• Debian packages: sponsored acr, tudu
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian screenshots: tint2, smtube, plasma-discover, vim-gtk3, teeworlds-server, virtualbox, convertall, foxtrotgps, cyclograph-gtk3, gtk3-nocsd, redshift-gtk, pd-iem, gnome-dictionary, gnome, hatari, network-manager-l2tp, network-manager-l2tp-gnome, gnome-terminal, gnome-system-monitor, arandr, codelite, yelp, gnome-nibbles, dconf-editor, yakuake, cavepacker, solaar, figlet, slic3r, printrun, gtkhash
  • rejected aaphoto (manual page, usage text), ne (macOS screenshot), protracker (Amiga screenshot), lwm (upstream screenshot), mdadm (help output)
  • approved deletion of protracker (Amiga screenshot)
  • approved deletion (despite bogus reason) of phylip (logo not screenshot, reason not translatable from Spanish)
  • rejected deletion of tora/bsdgames/unity (bogus reason)

Administration

• Debian: redirect 2 users to support channels, redirect 1 person to the mirrors team, investigate SMTP TLS question, fix ACL issue, restart dead exim4 service
• Debian mentors: service restarts, security updates & reboot
• Debian QA: deploy my changes
• Debian website: release related rebuilds, rebuild installation-guide
• Debian wiki: whitelist several email addresses, whitelist 1 domain
• Debian package tracker: deploy my changes
• Debian derivatives census: deploy my changes
• Openmoko: security updates & reboots.

Communication

• Help with the live coverage of the Debian stretch release
• Invite Zevenet to the Debian derivatives census
• Welcome AIMS Desktop, Zevenet to the Debian derivatives census
• Inquire about the status of Inquisitor
• Inform Debian derivatives about the Debian stretch release, DebConf events

Sponsors

All work was done on a volunteer basis.