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DebCamp16 day 8

Apply wget security update to mentors.debian.net. Poke the DebConf video team about archiving the one Debian & stuff podcast episode. Discuss exclusion, privilege & DebConf. Usual spam reporting. Review wiki RecentChanges. Fix some typos from RecentChanges. File Debian wishlist bug #829177 against bugs.debian.org. Mention the recent post about breaking Android full-disk encryption on the exploits Debian wiki page. Answer questions about recommended build configuration for chromium-bsu from the maintainer of it in FreeBSD. Mention that HTML SRI could help secure initial Debian downloads. File Debian bug #829199 against file and add workaround in derivatives census. Report broken boss-gnome source package to BOSSLinux folks on IRC. Delete and re-download Parsix apt folder to stop hash sum mismatches. File Debian minor/wishlist bugs #829209/#829211/#829212 against cypher-lint. Add a porterbox guest account for one of the RTC GSoC students. Extend the expiry of another guest account. Direct query about the excuses HTML to the release team. File Debian bug #829241 against fonts-play. Discuss accessibility, life, the universe and rakia.

Syndicated 2016-07-02 05:21:40 from Advogato

DebCamp16 day 7

Usual spam reporting. Review wiki RecentChanges. Provide feedback for the staging site of the new codebase for screenshots.d.n. Redirect bugs-search.d.o complaint to the BTS maintainers. Point out pastebinit already supports fpaste.org. Polish chromium-bsu, make a new upstream release to fix Debian RC bug #822711. Upload screenshot of chromium-bsu menu. Notify chromium-bsu package maintainers in other distros (hug whohas). Avoid checking WAV files for spelling errors in cats. Make the old PTS download i18n data over https. File #829092 to get the per-package i18n data to use https for links. Point someone on mentors to the Debian PHP group wiki page.

Syndicated 2016-07-01 05:38:56 from Advogato

DebCamp16 day 6

Redirect one person contacting the Debian sysadmin and web teams to Debian user support. Review wiki RecentChanges. Usual spam reporting. Check and fix a derivatives census issue. Suggest sending the titanpad maintainence issue to a wider audience. Update check-all-the-things and copyright review tools wiki page for licensecheck/devscripts split. Ask if debian-debug could be added to mirror.dc16.debconf.org. Discuss more about the devscripts/licensecheck split. Yesterday I grrred at Debian perl bug #588017 that causes vulnerabilities in check-all-the-things, tried to figure out the scope of the issue and workaround all of the issues I could find. (Perls are shiny and Check All The thingS can be abbreviated as cats) Today I confirmed with the reporter (Jakub Wilk) that the patch mitigates this. Release check-all-the-things to Debian unstable (finally!!). Discuss with the borg about syncing cats to Ubuntu. Notice autoconf/automake being installed as indirect cats build-deps (via debhelper/dh-autoreconf) and poke relevant folks about this. Answer question about alioth vs debian.org LDAP.

Syndicated 2016-06-29 20:49:00 from Advogato

DebCamp16 day 5

Beat head against shiny cats (no animals were harmed). Discuss the spice of sillyness. Forward a wiki bounce to the person. Mention my gobby git mail cron job. Start adopting the adequate package. Discuss cats vs licensecheck with Jonas. Usual spam reporting. Review wiki RecentChanges. Whitelisted one user in the wiki anti-spam system. Finding myself longing for a web technology. Shudder and look at the twinklies.

Syndicated 2016-06-28 19:14:00 from Advogato

DebCamp14 day 4

Usual spam reporting. Review wiki RecentChanges. Rain glorious rain! Err... Update a couple of links on the debtags team page. Report Debian bug #828718 against tracker.debian.org. Update links to debtags on DDPO and the old PTS. Report minor Debian bug #828722 against debtags.debian.org. Update the debtags for check-all-the-things. More code and check fixes for check-all-the-things. Gravitate towards the fireplace and beat face against annoying access point, learn of wpa_cli blacklist & wpa_cli bssid from owner of devilish laptop. Ask stakeholders for feedback/commits before the impending release of check-all-the-things to Debian unstable. Meet developers of the One^WGNU Ring, discuss C++ library foo. Contribute some links to an open hardware thread. Point out the location of the Debian QA SVN repository. Clear skies at night, twinkling delight.

Syndicated 2016-06-27 20:25:04 from Advogato

DebCamp16 day 3

Review, approve chromium, gnome-terminal and radeontop screenshots. Disgusted to see the level of creativity GPL violators have. Words of encouragement on #debian-mentors. Pleased to see Tails reproducible builds funding by Mozilla. Point out build dates in versions leads to non-reproducible builds. Point out apt-file search to someone looking for a binary of kill. Review wiki RecentChanges. Alarmingly windy. Report important Debian bug #828215 against unattended-upgrades. Clean up some code in check-all-the-things and work on fixing Debian bug #826089. Wind glorious wind! Much clearer day, nice view of the mountain. More check-all-the-things code clean up and finish up fixing Debian bug #826089. Twinkling city lights and more wind. Final code polish during dinner/discussion. Wandering in the wind amongst the twinklies. Whitelisted one user in the wiki anti-spam system. Usual spam reporting.

Syndicated 2016-06-26 19:31:25 from Advogato

DebCamp16 day 2

Review wiki RecentChanges since my bookmark. Usual spam reporting. Mention microG on #debian-mobile. Answer pkg-config question on #debian-mentors. Suggest using UUIDs in response to a debian-arm query. Reported Debian bug #828103 against needrestart. A giant yellow SOS crane between the balcony hacklab and a truly misty city. Locate the 2014 Debian & stuff podcast on archive.org. Poke the SPARC porters in response to a suggestion on debian-www. Mention systemctl daemon-reload wrt buildd service changes. Automate updating some extension lists from check-all-the-things. Reported wishlist Debian bug #828128 against debsources. Engage lizard mode! Wish for better display technology. Nice vegetarian food with nice folks and interesting discussions with interesting locals. Polish and release check-all-the-things. Close bugs I forgot to close in the changelog. Add link to debian-boot on Debootstrap wiki page. Notice first mockup of a theme for Debian stretch. Answer a question about package naming on #debian-mentors. Discuss the future of cross compilation on Debian. Notice a talk about FOSSology & update a wiki page. Mention AsteroidOS and MaruOS on the mobile wiki page. Contemplate how close to the FSDG Debian might be and approaches to improving that.

Syndicated 2016-06-25 19:49:32 from Advogato

DebCamp16 day 1

Hating jetlag based headache. Disturbed to see the Brexit result. Review wiki RecentChanges. Answer some questions about Launchpad on #debian-mentors. Whitelisted one user in the wiki anti-spam system. Reviewed and sponsored yamllint 1.2.2-1 upload. Noted OFSET repo is broken and updated Freeduc info. Noted the Epidemic-Linux website is having database issues. Noted that Facebook finally completely dropped their RSS feeds, dropped Facebook RSS feed URL generation from the Debian derivatives census scripts and notified the affected derivatives. Cleared up Tanglu hash sum mismatches again. Minor changes to Planet Debian derivatives. Enjoyed the photos from Valessio. Hazy city away from the mountain and tablecloth clouds flowing over the mountain on the way to a pub lunch. Jet lag headaches seem to be subsiding thankfully. Ping someone generating a bounce when changing their SSH key. Mention autorevision and other suggestions in an IRC discussion about mesa & reproducible builds. Review some DebConf16 announcements and add minor fix. Push out some TODO items to check-all-the-things. Ask for a dd-list for the GCC 6 transition. Usual spam reporting throughout the day via manual List-Archive copy-paste, feeding mboxen to my report-spam-debian-lists and report-spam-debian-bugs scripts and manual BTS clicks. Usual wondering why there isn't an RFC for MUA spam reporting. Disturbed by the sudden appearance of an astronautess in the orga room but placated by a plentiful supply of crisps. Ask x32 folks about debian-x32.org vs x32 on ports.d.o. Glad to just avoid the room shuffle dance. Finish mime support for check-all-the-things. Disappointed that piz.za does not actually resolve. Amused by pollito's virtual tour of UTC. Completely stuffed full of Butleritos.

Syndicated 2016-06-24 17:46:11 from Advogato

DebCamp16 day 0

Today is officially the first day of DebCamp 2016. The night wasn't as cold as I had feared. Woke at 5am for some reason. Noted the network still blocks port 6697 and 7000, worked around in IRC client configuration using 9999. Reply to network discussion to point that out. Minor changes to the empathy Debian RTC wiki page. Answer support@mentors.d.n bug email about shared company OpenPGP keys and suggest moving to individual keys. Review wiki RecentChanges. Comment on NetworkManager upstream bug #705545 that MAC address privacy is a complicated feature with many use cases. Warn another person that reporting Alioth to SpamCop does nothing and link to the unsubscription URL. Talk to Brown about IP address conflict sparc64 porters found with the setup of notker (sparc64 build machine). Filed Debian wishlist bug #827944 against at asking for support for using an editor to write at jobs. Woke up properly, discussed spam over breakfast. Notice Point Linux in the Distrowatch feed and invite them to the derivatives census. Point out reproducible builds in a discussion about source-only uploads. Commented that I encountered evolution upstream crash bug #680471 again. Reported gnome-shell upstream crash bug #767969. Joined the tour around the campus, enjoyed the view from the outdoor hacklab at the top of the hill. Confirmed that "Monkey Gland" from the pub menu is not in fact derived from monkeys in any way. Noted that Pollito did not eat chicken from the buffet. Beat head against VPN/SIP/WebRTC for a while but oncoming jetlag put me out of business for some hours. Pointed out the future Packages.gz removal in favour of Packages.xz to the popcon developers.

Syndicated 2016-06-23 21:16:41 from Advogato

DebCamp16 day -1

Landed late due to technical delays. Mountains! Mountains are everywhere! Beautiful sunny day with clear blue skies. Ran into Valessio as I was shown to my room. Wandered around the campus for a bunch of hours. Ate an all you can eat yum buffet lunch at the pub. Wandered down the hill and ended up on the train and wandering around a lake with lilies in a park. Arriving back at UCT we ran into a beer mission along with some wonderful arriving folks. The warm DebConf nervous centre was quite inviting and soon had plentiful beer, pizza and discussion.

Syndicated 2016-06-22 16:34:18 from Advogato

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