Free Software Activities (2019-09)

It’s been a busy month on a personal level so there’s a bunch of my Debian projects that have been stagnant this month, I hope to fix that over October/November.

Upload sponsoring: This month, when sponsoring package uploads for Debian, I prioritised Python team uploads above mentors.debian.net uploads (where I usually spend my reviewing attention). The Python 2 deprecation is turning out to be a lot of work so I think the Python team can do with a lot more support from everyone at this point.

DebConf: I resigned from the DebConf Committee, I might consider joining again if there’s a position open again in the future. I’m not going to DC20 so it seems like a good to cut back a bit to help me focus more on my technical projects. I’ll still be involved in the DebConf team. Over the next DebConf cycle I’ll still be involved in bursaries and want to cover a whole bunch of documentation and policy improvements that are sorely needed. I also want to finish up the ToeTally integration with Voctomix for the video team and hopefully try it out at a minidebconf within the next year.

Debian Live: calamares-settings-debian has been updated for bullseye, although as of this time we don’t have new images available with that yet. I started looking in to the vmdebootstrap deprecation, it’s going to be more work than I originally thought, so there’s a good possibility we might be switching to FAI for generating live images. I have a script called debmower that works ok and creates good images, but it’s a somewhat hacky shell script and if I ever had the time to rewrite it in Python I might propose that too, but unfortunately finding the time too maintain more things is hard, so I think FAI is the way to go. Isabelle Simpkins created testing artwork so that Debian testing images are easier to differentiate from the last stable release. These will be replaced in Debian as soon as the next release artwork is available.

Activity log:

2019-09-09: Upload package gdisk (1.0.4-2) to debian unstable (Adopting package, closes #939421).

2019-09-09: Upload package calamares (3.2.13-1) to debian unstable.

2019-09-09: Upload package gnome-shell-extension-dash-to-panel (23-1) to debian unstable.

2019-09-09: Upload package toot (0.23.1) to debian unstable.

2019-09-09: File upstream bug for toot crash when launching in tui mode (Toot #124).

2019-09-10: Upload package bluefish (2.2.10-2) to debian unstable (Adopting package, Closes: #922891, #936220).

2019-09-10: Seek feedback on bugs #844449, #852733.

2019-09-11: File removal of pythonqt from debian unstable (BTS: #940025).

2019-09-11: Orphan package golang-gopkg-flosch-pongo2.v3 (BTS: #940030).

2019-09-16: Upload package python3-aniso8601 (8.0.0-1) to debian unstable.

2019-09-16: Upload package gnome-shell-extension-remove-dropdown-arrows (12-1) to debian unstable.

2019-09-16: Upload package bluefish (2.10-3) to debian unstable.

2019-09-16: Upload package gnome-shell-extension-move-clock (1.01-2) to debian unstable.

2019-06-16: Upload package tanglet (1.5.4-2) to debian unstable.

2019-09-16: Upload package gdisk (1.0.4-3) to debian unstable.

2019-09-16: Upload package tetzle (2.1.4+dfsg1-3) to debian unstable.

2019-09-16: Upload package bcachefs-tools (0.1+git20190829.aa2a42b-1~exp1) to debian unstable.

2019-09-16: Review package python-flask-jwt-extended (3.21.0-1) (needs some work) (mentors.debian.net request).

2019-09-16: Sponsor package flask-jwt-simple (0.0.3-1) for debian unstable (mentors.debian.net request, RFS: #940102).

2019-09-16: Sponsor package python3-fastentrypoints (0.12-1) for debian experimental (mentors.debian.net request, RFS: #934054).

2019-09-16: Sponsor package python3-netsnmpagent (0.6.0-1) for debian experimental (mentors.debian.net request, RFS: #934056).

2019-09-16: Review package pydevd (1.6.1+git20190712.1267523+dfsg) (mentors.debian.net request), recommend that another reviewer give it a second pass.

2019-09-16: Sponsor package python3-aiosqlite (0.10.0-1) for debian unstable (mentors.debian.net request, RFS: #927702).

2019-09-16: Upload package python3-flask-silk (0.2-14) to debian unstable.

2019-09-16: Sponsor package membernator (1.0.1-1) for debian unstable (Python team request).

2019-09-16: Sponsor package cosmiq (1.6.0-1) for debian unstable (mentors.debian.net request).

2019-09-16: Sponsor package micropython (1.11-1) for debian unstable (mentors.debian.net request, RFS: #939189).

2019-09-16: Sponsor package oomd (0.1.0-1) for debian unstable (mentors.debian.net request, RFS: #939096).

2019-09-16: Sponsor package python3-enc (0.4.0-5) for debian unstable (Python team request).

2019-09-16: Review package pcapy () (needs some more work) (Python team request).

2019-09-16: Review package impacket () (needs some more work) (Python team request).

2019-09-16: Sponsor package python-guizero (1.0.0+dfgs1-1) (Python team request).

2019-09-17: Sponsor package sentry-python (0.9..5-2) for debian unstable (Python team request).

2019-09-17: Sponsor package supysonic (0.4.1-1) for debian unstable (Python team request).

2019-09-17: Sponsor package python3-aiohttp-wsgi (0.8.2-2) for debian unstable (Python team request).

2019-09-17: Sponsor package python3-onedrivesdk (1.1.8-1) for debian experimental (Python team request).

2019-09-17: Review package python3-ptvsd (4.3.0+dfsg-1) (needs some more work) (Python team request).

2019-09-17: Review package python3-flask-jwt-extended (3.21.0-1) (needs some more work) (Python team request).

2019-09-17: Review package python3-pydevd (1.7.1+dfsg-1) (needs some more work) (Python team request).

2019-09-17: Sponsor package python3-bidict (0.18.2-1) for debian unstable (Python team request).

2019-09-18: Upload package python3-enc (0.4.0-4) to debian unstable.

2019-09-18: Sponsor package python3-pydevd (1.7.1+dfsg1) for debian unstable (Python team request).

2019-09-18: Sponsor package python-aiohttp (3.6.0-1) for debian unstable (Python team request).

2019-09-18: Review package py-postgresql (1.2.1+git20180803.ef7b9a9-1) (needs some more work) (Python team request).

2019-09-18: Review package irker (2.18+dfsg-4) (needs some more work) (Python team request).

2019-09-18: Sponsor package py-postgresql (1.2.1+git20180803.ef7b9a9-1) for debian unstable (Python team request).

2019-09-18: Upload package irker (2.18+dfsg-4) to debian unstable (team upload / Python team sponsor request).

2019-09-18: Sponsor package sphinx-autodoc-typehints (1.8.0-1) for debian unstable (Python team request).

2019-09-18: Sponsor package python3-sentry-sdk (0.12.0-1) for debian unstable (Python team request).

2019-09-19: Review package vonsh (1.0) (needs some more work) (mentors.debian.net request).

2019-09-19: Upload package live-tasks (11.0.1) to debian unstable (Closes: #932780, #936953, #934522).

2019-09-19: Upload package python3-flask-autoindex (0.6.2-2) to debian unstable (Closes: #936523).

2019-09-19: Upload package python3-flask-autoindex (0.6.2-3) to debian unstable (Re-opens: #936523).

2019-09-20: Upload package gamemode (1.5~git20190812-107d469-1~exp1) to debian experimental.

2019-09-20: Upload package gnome-shell-extension-remove-dropdown-arrows (13-1) to debian unstable.

2019-09-20: Sponsor package django-sortedm2m (2.0.0dfsg.1-1) for debian experimental (Python team request).

2019-09-20: Sponsor package python3-anosql (1.0.1-1) for debian unstable (Python team request).

2019-09-23: Upload package gnome-shell-extension-disconnect-wifi (21-1~exp1) to debian experimental.

2019-09-23: Upload package toot (0.24.0-1) to debian unstable.

2019-09-23: Upload package gamemode (1.5~git20190812-107d469-1~exp2) to debian experimental.

2019-09-23: Review package python3-pympler () (needs some more work) (Python team request).

2019-09-23: Close previously fixed bug #914044 in tuxpaint.

2019-09-23: Upload package kpmcore (4.0.0-1~exp1) to debian experimental.

2019-09-23: Upload package kpmcore (4.0.0-1~exp2) to debian experimental.

2019-09-25: Sponsor package assaultcube-data (1.2.0.2.1-3) for debian unstable (mentors.debian.net request).

2019-09-25: Sponsor package assaultcube (1.2.0.2.1-2) for debian unstable (mentors.debian.net request).

2019-09-25: Review package cpupower-gui (0.7.0-1) (needs some more work) (mentors.debian.net request).

2019-09-25: Sponsor package pympler (0.7+dfsg1-1~exp1) for debian experimental (Python team request).

2019-09-25: Sponsor package sentry-python (0.12.2-1) for debian unstable (Python team request).

2019-09-25: Sponsor package python-aiohttp (3.6.1-1) for debian unstable (Python team request).

2019-09-25: Upload package calamares-settings-debian (11.0.1-1) to debian unstable.

2019-09-25: Merge MR#2 for live-wrapper (Debian BTS: #866183).

2019-09-25: File bug #941131 against qa.debian.org (“Make oustanding MRs more visible in DDPO pages).

2019-09-25: Sponsor package color-theme-modern (0.0.2+4.g42a7926-1) for debian unstable (RFS: #905246) (mentors.debian.net request).

2019-09-26: Sponsor package python3-flask-jwt-extended for debian unstable (RFS:#940075) (mentors.debian.net request).

2019-09-26: Upload package tuxpaint (0.9.24~git20190922-f7d30d-1~exp1) to debian experimental.

2019-09:26: Review package python3-in-toto (0.4.0-1) (needs some more work) (mentors.debian.net request).

2019-09:30: Forward Calamares bug #941301 “write two random seeds to locations for urandom init script and systemd-random-seed service” to upstream bug #1252.

2019-09-30: Sponsor package color-theme-modern (0.0.2+4.g42a7926-1) for debian unstable (RFS: #905246) (mentors.debian.net request).