Debian Project News - September 20th, 2017

[Laura Arjona Reina]

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Welcome to this year's third issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian
community. Topics covered in this issue include:

* Welcome to the Debian Project News!
* Internal News/Happenings
* Upcoming events
* Reports
* Help needed
* More than just code
* Outside News
* Quick Links from Debian Social Media
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1: https://bits.debian.org

Debian's Security Team releases current advisories on a daily basis
(Security Advisories 2017 [2]). Please read them carefully and subscribe
to the security mailing list [3].

2: https://www.debian.org/security/2017/
3: https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/

At the end of this Project News we've added a Quick Links section which
links to a selection of the posts made through our other media streams.


Internal News/Happenings
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Debian Installer Buster Alpha 1 release

The Debian Installer team announced [4] the first alpha release of the
installer for Debian 10 "Buster". Installer CDs, other media and
everything else you will need to try it and help finding bugs are
available at the Debian Installer web page [5].

4: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2017/09/msg00001.html
5: https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer

The future of Alioth

Alioth [6], the Debian forge, is based on Debian 7 "Wheezy" and a
modified version of Fusionforge. On 18–20 August 2017 a sprint was held
in Hamburg, Germany, to discuss options and the future of the several
services currently provided by Alioth. A service based in GitLab is
being worked on as the future git service. As for the mailing lists
hosted on lists.alioth.debian.org, some of them will be retired and
others are elegible to be moved to the lists.debian.org service. See the
related mail about mailing lists [7] for how to proceed, and the Alioth
sprint minutes [8] for more details.

6: https://alioth.debian.org
7: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2017/09/msg00004.html
8: https://gobby.debian.org/export/Sprints/AliothSuccessors2017/Minutes

Outreachy

Debian is participating in the 15th Round [9] of Outreachy [10] as a way
to increase the diversity of contributors to the project. Until 23
October 2017 the applicants can choose a project and contact the
corresponding mentors in order to send their small contribution related
to the project and their application. By November 9 the two interns
selected to participate in this program will be announced.

9: https://wiki.debian.org/Outreachy/Round15
10: https://www.outreachy.org/


Upcoming events
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Debian Mini Event at the FTSL (IX Fórum de Tecnologia em Software Livre)

The Brazilian Debian community will gather in a Mini Event at the FTSL -
IX Fórum de Tecnologia em Software Livre (Forum of Technology and Free
Software), from 27 to 29 September 2017. More info (in Brazilian
Portuguese) in
https://wiki.debian.org/Brasil/Eventos/MiniDebConfCuritiba2017


Debian Bug Squashing Party in Salzburg

There will be a Debian Bug Squashing Party in Salzburg, Austria, on the
weekend of October 20–22 2017. Team meetings/sprints during the BSP are
welcome too. Please register on the wiki page [11] to ease the
organisation of the event. On the same page you will find information
regarding transport, (sponsored) accommodation and other useful things.

11: https://wiki.debian.org/BSP/2017/10/at/Salzburg

Toulouse MiniDebConf 2017

The Toulouse MiniDebConf 2017 [12] will take place during the "Capitole
du Libre" event on November 18 and 19 2017. This event will welcome
everyone with an interest in the Debian project for a series of talks
and workshops about Debian. Talk proposals are open until 30 September
2017.

12: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/fr/2017/Toulouse

MiniDebConf Cambridge 2017

The weekend of November 23–26 2017 a Mini-DebConf will be held in
Cambridge, UK. It will start with two days for a mini-DebCamp, for
dedicated development, sprints or team meetings, and then two days for a
more regular mini-conf (more general talks). For more details and to
sign up to attend, please visit the wiki page at
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/gb/2017/MiniDebConfCambridge


Reports
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Debian Day 2017 in Brazil and the rest of the world

From August 16 to 23, 2017, seven cities in Brazil [13] organised
meetings to celebrate the twenty-fourth anniversary of the Debian
Project, and some of them have photos: Curitiba [14] Francisco Beltrão
Maceió [15] Natal Recife [16] Salvador São Paulo

13: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianDay/2017
14: https://www.flickr.com/photos/curitibalivre/sets/72157685044712731
15: http://debianbrasil.org.br/debian-day-2017-em-maceio
16:
https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipO9F2PQwp69CHbtECZb1OPHJCW7bpsy5fqc82XD8n_4KO6wLcKkWOE2bRJq0pXASQ?key=Qzh1U0NHMjlTd29haE9hVkY2WXBnbWptRGpQNjNB

In 2016 [17] only two Brazilian cities organised a Debian Day. This year
we had an increase in the number of cities because we encouraged the
local communities to organise their meetings.

17: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianDay/2016

Other cities in the world celebrating this Debian birthday were: Varese
(Italy), La Paz (Bolivia), Montreal and Quebec (Canada), Stockholm
(Sweden), Caracas and Cumaná (Venezuela).

LTS Freexian Monthly Reports

Freexian issues monthly reports [18] about the work of paid contributors
to Debian Long Term Support.

18: https://raphaelhertzog.com/tag/Freexian+LTS/

Reproducible Builds status update

Follow the reproducible builds blog [19] to get the weekly reports on
their work in the "Stretch" cycle.

19: https://reproducible.alioth.debian.org/blog/


Help needed
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Help spreading the word about Debian Astro 1.0

Debian Astro [20] was released last June together with Debian "Stretch".
Let's help to make Debian Astro 1.0 known to the astronomy community! If
you happen to attend any astronomy related conference or meeting, don't
hesitate to talk to your colleagues about this Debian Pure Blend [21]
focused for both professional and hobby astronomers, and the software
packages [22] covering telescope control, data reduction, presentation
and other fields.

20: https://blends.debian.org/astro/
21: https://www.debian.org/blends/
22: https://blends.debian.org/astro/tasks

Devscripts needs you

James McCoy has blogged [23] about help needed for maintaining
devscripts, a set of scripts to make the life of a Debian Package
Maintainer easier. If you're interested in helping out, you can join
#devscripts on OFTC and/or send a mail to the list
<devscrip...@lists.alioth.debian.org>.

23: https://jamessan.com/~jamessan//posts/devscripts-needs-you/

A Debian theme for the Debian Policy (and other documentation)

The Debian Policy team is seeking volunteers to design a Debian
documentation Sphinx [24] theme, to be used by the Debian Policy
versions 4.1.0.0 and newer and probably other core pieces of Debian
documentation as they move to the Sphinx documentation generator.
Contact the Debian Policy Team [25] to submit your proposal, or the
Debian Design Team [26] for more design work needed in Debian.

24: http://www.sphinx-doc.org/
25: https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Policy
26: https://wiki.debian.org/Design

Packages needing help

Currently [27] 1112 packages are orphaned [28] and 154 packages are up
for adoption [29]: please visit the complete list of packages which need
your help [30].

27: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2017/09/msg00213.html
28: https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned
29: https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa
30: https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested

Newcomer bugs

Debian has a "newcomer" bug tag, used to indicate bugs which are
suitable for new contributors to use as an entry point to working on
specific packages. There are 205 [31] bugs available tagged "newcomer".

31: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=newcomer


More than just code
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Contributors

1717 people and 20 teams are listed on the Debian Contributors [32] page
for 2017.

32: https://contributors.debian.org/

New translation team: Albanian

The second edition of Free Libre Open Source Camp (FOSScamp) took place
from 31 August to 03 September 2017 in Syros, Greece. The Debian
Developer Lior Kaplan attended and facilitated the localisation of
Debian installer and other software into Albanian. See the blogposts
about this [33] and other [34] good outcomes [35] of the event. Albanian
translators are continuing the work using the newly created debian-l10n-
albanian mailing list [36].

33: https://liorkaplan.wordpress.com/2017/09/03/fosscamp-syros-2017-day-1/
34: https://liorkaplan.wordpress.com/2017/09/04/fosscamp-syros-2017-day-2/
35: https://liorkaplan.wordpress.com/2017/09/07/fosscamp-syros-2017-day-3/
36: https://lists.debian.org/debian-l10n-albanian/

Once upon a time in Debian:

* 2007-09-02 packages.debian.org updated [37]
* 2009-09-04 grub package now based on GRUB2 [38]
* 1997-09-06 BTS severity tracking implemented [39]
* 1999-09-16 birth of new Debian QA website [40]
* 2008-09-24 Debian Bug #500000 reported by Nobuhiro Iwamatsu [41]

37: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/09/msg00001.html
38: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2009/09/msg00002.html
39: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/1997/09/msg00000.html
40: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/1999/09/msg00007.html
41: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=500000


Outside News
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Public Money, Public Code

The Free Software Foundation Europe has recently launched the campaign
"Public Money, Public Code" [42], to request the implementation of
legislation requiring that publicly financed software developed for the
public sector be made publicly available under a Free and Open Source
Software licence.

42: https://publiccode.eu/

Forty organisations, Debian among them, and more than 7,400 individuals
have supported this call for action by signing the open letter [43] of
the campaign. Visit the website https://publiccode.eu to learn more
details, sign the letter, and find other ways of taking action or
spreading the word.

43: https://publiccode.eu/openletter/

Videos in Portuguese from Free Software Events

The Debian Maintainer Paulo Santana (phls) created the website
http://videos.softwarelivre.org to index videos of lectures in
Portuguese from Free Software events in Brazil like MiniDebConf Curitiba
2017 [44]. There are also other videos of Debian collaboration talks at
many of these events.

44: http://videos.softwarelivre.org/eventos/minidebconf-curitiba-2017.html


Quick Links from Debian Social Media
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This is an extract from the micronews.debian.org [45] feed, in which we
have removed the topics already commented on in this DPN issue. You can
skip this section if you already follow micronews.debian.org or <the
@debian> profile in a social network (Pump.io, GNU Social, Mastodon or
Twitter). The items are given unformatted, and in descending order by
date (recent news at the top).

45: https://micronews.debian.org

September

* Summary of the 2038 BoF at DC17
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2017/09/msg00035.html
* DebConf17 videos, now with RSS file (so your podcast player will be able to
play it). Thanks Debian Video Team!
https://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2017/debconf17/
* New Debian Developers and Maintainers (July and August 2017)
https://bits.debian.org/2017/09/new-developers-2017-08.html


August

* Bits from the New Member Process
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2017/08/msg00009.html
* Raspbian Stretch has arrived for Raspberry Pi
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspbian-stretch/
* "DebCamp/DebConf17: reports on sprints and BoFs" by Sean Whitton
https://spwhitton.name//blog/entry/debconf17_reports/
< * @DebConf17>: Ad-hoc BoF: Bits from the Debian+Ubuntu MATE Packaging
Team https://sunweavers.net/blog/node/63
* Running Suricata 4.0 with Debian Stretch
http://ral-arturo.org/2017/08/19/suricata-debian.html
* Work on Debian for mobile devices continues
https://bits.debian.org/2017/08/debian-mobile-continues.html
* Debian turns 24! https://bits.debian.org/2017/08/debian-turns-24.html
* Qt 4 removal in Debian testing (Buster)/unstable
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2017/08/msg00006.html
* "20170812-reproducible-policy (packages should build reproducibly - after 4
years this work of many is in debian-policy now)" by Holger Levsen
http://layer-acht.org/thinking/blog/20170812-reproducible-policy/
* Happy 20th Birthday, @GNOME !
https://www.gnome.org/news/2017/08/twenty-years-strong/
* Debian Project News - August 14th, 2017
https://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2017/02/
* You missed a talk given at DebConf17? No problem, most of them were recorded
and are available at
http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2017/debconf17
* Next August 16th is Debian Day 2017. Organize or attend a party!
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianDay/2017


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