Right here’s my (thirty-first) month-to-month however transient replace in regards to the actions I’ve carried out within the F/L/OSS world.
Debian
This was my fortieth month of actively contributing to Debian.
I turned a DM in late March 2019 and a DD on Christmas ‘19! o/
There’s a bunch of issues I did this month however largely non-technical, now that DC22 is across the nook. Listed here are the issues I did:
Debian Uploads
- Helped Andrius w/ FTBFS for php-text-captcha, reported through #977403.
- I mounted the samed in Ubuntu a few months in the past they usually copied over the patch right here.
Different $issues:
- Volunteering for DC22 Content material crew.
- Main the Bursary crew w/ Paulo.
- Answering a bunch of questions of referees and attendees round bursary.
- Being an AM for Arun Kumar, course of #1024.
- Mentoring for newcomers.
- Moderation of -project mailing record.
Ubuntu
This was my fifteenth month of actively contributing to Ubuntu.
Now that I joined Canonical to work on Ubuntu full-time, there’s a bunch of issues I do! o/
I largely labored on various things, I suppose.
I used to be too lazy to keep up a listing of issues I labored on so there’s
no concrete record atm. Possibly I’ll get again to this part later or
will begin to record stuff from the autumn, as I used to be doing earlier than. 😀
Debian (E)LTS
Debian Lengthy Time period Help (LTS) is a mission to increase the lifetime of all Debian steady releases to (no less than) 5 years. Debian LTS isn’t dealt with by the Debian safety crew, however by a separate group of volunteers and firms interested by making it a hit.
And Debian Prolonged LTS (ELTS) is its sister mission, extending assist to the Jessie launch (+2 years after LTS assist).
This was my thirty-first month as a Debian LTS and twentieth month as a Debian ELTS paid contributor.
I labored for 23.25 hours for LTS and 20.00 hours for ELTS.
LTS CVE Fixes and Bulletins:
- Issued DLA 2976-1, fixing CVE-2022-1271, for gzip.
For Debian 9 stretch, these issues have been mounted in model 1.6-5+deb9u1. - Issued DLA 2977-1, fixing CVE-2022-1271, for xz-utils.
For Debian 9 stretch, these issues have been mounted in model 5.2.2-1.2+deb9u1. - Engaged on src:tiff and src:mbedtls to repair the problems, nonetheless ready for extra points to be reported, although.
- Taking a look at src:mutt CVEs. Haven’t had the time to finish however shall roll out subsequent month.
ELTS CVE Fixes and Bulletins:
- Issued ELA 593-1, fixing CVE-2022-1271, for gzip.
For Debian 8 jessie, these issues have been mounted in model 1.6-4+deb8u1. - Issued ELA 594-1, fixing CVE-2022-1271, for xz-utils.
For Debian 8 jessie, these issues have been mounted in model 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2+deb8u1. - Issued ELA 598-1, fixing CVE-2019-16935, CVE-2021-3177, and CVE-2021-4189, for python2.7.
For Debian 8 jessie, these issues have been mounted in model 2.7.9-2-ds1-1+deb8u9. - Engaged on src:tiff and src:beep to repair the problems, nonetheless ready for extra points to be reported for src:tiff and src:beep is a little bit of a PITA, although. 🙂
Different (E)LTS Work:
- Triaged gzip,
xz-utils,
tiff,
beep,
python2.7,
python-django, and
libgit2, - Signed as much as be a Freexian Collaborator! o/
- Learn by some bits round that.
- Helped and assisted new contributors becoming a member of Freexian.
- Answered questions (& discussions) on IRC (#debian-lts and #debian-elts).
- Common and different discussions on LTS personal and public mailing record.
- Attended month-to-month Debian assembly. Held on Jitsi this month.
Debian LTS Survey
I’ve spent 18 hours on the LTS survey on the next bits:
- Rolled out the announcement. Began the survey.
- Answered a bunch of queries, individuals requested through e-mail.
- Checked out one other bunch of tickets: https://salsa.debian.org/freexian-team/project-funding/-/points/23.
- Despatched a reminder and stuck a couple of issues right here and there.
- Gave a standing replace in the course of the assembly.
- Prolonged the period of the survey.
Till subsequent time.:wq for in the present day.
