Debian turns 27!
On Sun 16 August 2020 with tags debian project anniversary birthday DebianDayWritten by Laura Arjona Reina
Today is Debian's 27th anniversary. We recently wrote about some ideas to celebrate the DebianDay, you can join the party or organise something yourselves :-)
Today is also an opportunity for you to start or resume your contributions to Debian. For example, you can scratch your creative itch and suggest a wallpaper to be part of the artwork for the next release, have a look at the DebConf20 schedule and register to participate online (August 23rd to 29th, 2020), or put a Debian live image in a DVD or USB and give it to some person near you, who still didn't discover Debian.
Our favorite operating system is the result of all the work we do together. Thanks to everybody who has contributed in these 27 years, and happy birthday Debian!
Let's celebrate DebianDay 2020 around the world
On Wed 22 July 2020 with tags debian birthdayWritten by Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana (phls)
Translations: fr pt-BR
We encourage our community to celebrate around the world the 27th Debian anniversary with organized DebianDay events. This year due to the COVID-19 pandemic we cannot organize in-person events, so we ask instead that contributors, developers, teams, groups, maintainers, and users promote The Debian Project and Debian activities online on August 16th (and/or 15th).
Communities can organize a full schedule of online activities throughout the day. These activities can include talks, workshops, active participation with contributions such as translations assistance or editing, debates, BoFs, and all of this in your local language using tools such as Jitsi for capturing audio and video from presenters for later streaming to YouTube.
If you are not aware of any local community organizing a full event or you don't want to join one, you can solo design your own activity using OBS and stream it to YouTube. You can watch an OBS tutorial here.
Don't forget to record your activity as it will be a nice idea to upload it to Peertube later.
Please add your event/activity on the DebianDay wiki page and let us know about and advertise it on Debian micronews. To share it, you have several options:
- Follow the steps listed here for Debian Developers.
- Contact us using IRC in channel
#debian-publicityon the OFTC network, and ask us there. - Send a mail to debian-publicity@lists.debian.org and ask for your item to be included in micronews. This is a publicly archived list.
PS: DebConf20 online is coming! It will be held from August 23rd to 29th, 2020. Registration is already open.
New Debian Developers and Maintainers (May and June 2020)
On Tue 21 July 2020 with tags projectWritten by Jean-Pierre Giraud
Translations: ca es fr pt sv vi zh-CN
The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months:
- Richard Laager (rlaager)
- Thiago Andrade Marques (andrade)
- Vincent Prat (vivi)
- Michael Robin Crusoe (crusoe)
- Jordan Justen (jljusten)
- Anuradha Weeraman (anuradha)
- Bernelle Verster (indiebio)
- Gabriel F. T. Gomes (gabriel)
- Kurt Kremitzki (kkremitzki)
- Nicolas Mora (babelouest)
- Birger Schacht (birger)
- Sudip Mukherjee (sudip)
The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months:
- Marco Trevisan
- Dennis Braun
- Stephane Neveu
- Seunghun Han
- Alexander Johan Georg Kjäll
- Friedrich Beckmann
- Diego M. Rodriguez
- Nilesh Patra
- Hiroshi Yokota
Congratulations!
Debian Long Term Support (LTS) users and contributors survey
On Mon 13 July 2020 with tags project announceWritten by Holger Levsen
Translations: fr
On July 18th Stretch LTS starts, offering two more years of security support to the Debian Stretch release. Stretch LTS will be the fourth iteration of LTS, following Squeeze LTS which started in 2014, Wheezy LTS in 2016 and Jessie LTS in 2018.
However, for the first time, we have prepared a small survey about our users and contributors, who they are and why they are using LTS.
Filling out the survey should take less than 10 minutes. We would really appreciate if you could participate in the survey online!
In two weeks (July 27th 2020) we will close the survey, so please don't hesitate and participate now! After that, there will be a followup email with the results.
More information about Debian LTS is available at https://wiki.debian.org/LTS, including generic contact information.
Report of the Debian Perl Sprint 2020
On Mon 15 June 2020 with tags perl sprintWritten by Dominic Hargreaves
Eight members of the Debian Perl team met online between May 15 and May 17 2020, in lieu of a planned physical sprint meeting. Work focussed on preparations for bullseye, and continued maintenance of the large number of perl modules maintained by the team.
Whilst an online sprint cannot fully replace an in-person sprint in terms of focussing attention, the weekend was still very productive, and progress was made on a range of topics including:
- Reducing technical debt by removing unmaintained packages
- Beginning packaging and QA for the next major release of perl, 5.32
- Deciding on a team policy for hardening flags
- Addressing concerns with
Alien::*, a set of pacakges designed to download source code - Developing a proposal for debian/NEWS.Developer, to complement debian/NEWS
- Developing a plan to enable SSL verification in HTTP::Tiny by default
The full report was posted to the relevant Debian mailing lists.
The participants would like to thank OpusVL for providing the Jitsi instance for the weekend.