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Welcome to this year's fourth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Welcome to the Debian Project News! * Internal News/Happenings * Events: Upcoming and Reports * Help needed * More than just code * Outside News * Reports * Quick Links from Debian Social Media * Want to continue reading DPN? Welcome to the Debian Project News! ----------------------------------- We hope that you are enjoying the new format of the DPN. For other news, please read the official Debian Blog Bits from Debian [1], and follow https://micronews.debian.org which RSS-feeds <the @debian> profile in several social networks too. 1: https://bits.debian.org Debian's Security Team releases current advisories on a daily basis (Security Advisories 2016 [2]). Please read them carefully and subscribe to the security mailing list [3]. 2: https://www.debian.org/security/2016/ 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 many of the posts made through our other media streams. Internal News/Happenings ------------------------ News on Debian "Stretch" Debian "Stretch" has entered [4] its transition freeze. There will be no new library transitions or package transitions that involve a large number of packages. 4: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2016/11/msg00002.html The Release Team maintains a calendar [5] with important dates. The next milestones are 5 December 2016 (forced 10-day migration delay), 5 January 2017 (soft freeze, deadline for new source packages or letting packages re-enter "Stretch"), and 5 February 2017 (full freeze for "Stretch" : all changes to "Stretch" will require approval). 5: https://release.debian.org/release-calendar.ics The Debian-Installer "Stretch" Alpha 8 release has been published [6]. Tests and reports to find bugs and further improve the installer are welcome. Installer CDs, other media and everything else are available for download [7]. 6: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2016/11/msg00006.html 7: https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer The "softWaves" [8] theme, by Juliette Taka Belin, will be the default artwork for Debian 9. It was selected out of twelve candidates using a survey. Read our blog post [9] for more details about the process and how to help in getting artwork packaged for Debian. 8: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianArt/Themes/softWaves 9: https://bits.debian.org/2016/10/softwaves-will-be-the-default-theme-for-debian-9.html New FAI version 5.2 is going to the cloud The release has been announced [10] of FAI 5.2, the new version of the Fully Automatic Installation tool set, which now supports creating disk images for virtual machines. It uses the normal FAI process and it's very fast - using a small set of packages the image can be created in less than 50 seconds. A first version of a Google Compute Engine configuration is also provided. 10: https://lists.uni-koeln.de/pipermail/linux-fai/2016-October/011549.html Events: Upcoming and Reports ---------------------------- Upcoming events Bug Squashing Parties On 4 December 2016 there will be a Bug Squashing Party in Dresden, Germany. See the wiki page [11] for details. 11: https://wiki.debian.org/BSP/2016/12/de/Dresden There will be another BSP on the weekend of 27-29 January 2017 in Cambridge, UK. More info on its wiki page [12]. 12: https://wiki.debian.org/BSP/2017/01/gb/Cambridge Reproducible Builds sprint in December 2016 in Berlin There will be a Reproducible Builds summit in Berlin [13] for three days on 13-15 December, with more than 50 attendees from 20 projects. The Debian participants will have a Reproducible Builds Sprint during the event; details can be seen on the wiki page [14]. 13: https://reproducible-builds.org/events/berlin2016/ 14: https://wiki.debian.org/Sprints/2016/ReproducibleBuildsSummit2016 The main goals are to discuss and hack on reproducible builds in "Stretch", plus longer term plans for Debian 10 "Buster", and, together with the wider community at the summit, to improve collaboration both within and between projects, expand the scope and reach, and brainstorm design of tools enabling end-users to get the most benefits from reproducible builds. DebConf17 in Montreal The 18th annual DebConf will take place in Montreal, Canada, 6-12 August 2017. It will be preceded by DebCamp, 31 July to 4 August, and Debian Day, 5 August. The DebConf team welcomes any contribution towards its organisation, particularly looking for sponsors. See the wiki [15] for more details on how you can help out, or have a look at the sponsorship brochure (PDF) [16]. 15: https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf17 16: https://media.debconf.org/dc17/fundraising/debconf17_sponsorship_brochure_en.pdf Bid deadline for DebConf18 approaching Event Reports Debian Day 2016 in Curitiba On Saturday 13 August 2016, the Curitiba Livre Group organised a meeting at Centro Universitário Uniandrade in Curitiba (Brazil) to celebrate the twenty-third anniversary of the Debian Project. Over the years from 2004 with Debian User Group Paraná to this year with Curitiba Livre Group, the free software community in Curitiba has organised several activities to celebrate this date, with the goal of contributing to the project and returning some contributions to Debian, such as code, translations from English to Portuguese, and also help with finding new contributors. For more details about this event, photos and links, see Bits from Debian Day 2016 in Curitiba - Brazil [17]. 17: http://softwarelivre.org/debianday2016-curitiba/noticias/bits-from-debian-day-2016-in-curitiba-brazil MiniDebConf Cambridge 2016 A mini-DebConf took place in Cambridge, UK on 10-13 November 2016. Details of the event, schedule, and photos are on their wiki page [18]. There were live video streams, and the recordings are already available [19]. 18: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/gb/2016/MiniDebConfCambridge 19: http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2016/miniconf_cambridge16/ Debian Video Team sprint A Debian Video Team sprint [20] happened on 17-20 November in Paris, France. The main goals of the sprint were to work on the software video mixer Voctomix, streamline the streaming infrastructure, assess the Opsis boards, write documentation, and agree on the new hardware that needs to be purchased. 20: https://wiki.debian.org/Sprints/2016/DebConfVideoteamSprint20Nov2016 DebianEdu sprint end of November 2016 in Oslo With the freeze coming, a DebianEdu gathering and sprint has been held in Oslo, 25-27 November. See the wiki page [21] for details. 21: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Gathering/2016-11-Oslo Other events Debian was present at Latinoware 2016 [22], Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, 19-21 October, at OpenRheinRuhr [23], Oberhausen, Germany, 5-6 November, and at T-DOSE 11th edition [24], Eindhoven, Netherlands, 12-13 November. 22: http://softwarelivre.org/debianbrasil/blog/about-debian-brasil-in-latinoware-2016 23: https://lists.debian.org/debian-events-eu/2016/10/msg00004.html 24: https://lists.debian.org/debian-events-nl/2016/08/msg00002.html Once upon a time in Debian 2008-11-28 AGPL deemed suitable for main [25] 2008-11-13 screenshots.debian.net released [26] 2006-11-23 Bug number 400000 reported by Christian Perrier [27] 25: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=506402#10 26: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/11/msg00003.html 27: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=400000 Help needed ----------- Debian contributors survey All Debian contributors - from bug reporters to Debian project members and participants in any Debian team - are invited to take part in the first edition of the Debian contributors survey [28]. The deadline for participation is: 4 December 2016, at 23:59 UTC. See more details in the call for participation mail [29]. 28: http://debian.limequery.org/696747 29: https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2016/11/msg00010.html Help the switch to elpa-* packages With the advent of GNU Emacs's native package manager, package.el, there has been renewed interest in writing useful Emacs Lisp addons. Unfortunately, both package.el itself [30] and the infrastructure that has grown up around it [31] leave a lot to be desired when it comes to quality assurance and security. 30: https://glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2015/11/editor-malware.html 31: https://github.com/melpa/melpa/issues/2342 Over the past year or so the pkg-emacsen team have been developing tools to convert package.el packages to Debian packages, and it is now quite easy to create new ones. We'd like to see more Emacs users who know at least the basics of creating Debian packages join our team. To get started: 1. join #debian-emacs 2. apt-get install dh-make-elpa/experimental 3. man dh-make-elpa # to view a quick start guide Packages needing help Currently [32] 989 packages are orphaned [33] and 153 packages are up for adoption [34]: please visit the complete list of packages which need your help [35]. 32: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/11/msg00133.html 33: https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned 34: https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa 35: 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 185 [36] newcomer bugs available. 36: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=newcomer More than just code ------------------- Contributors 1,898 people and 19 teams are listed on the Debian Contributors [37] page for 2016. 37: https://contributors.debian.org/ For the contributors getting their maintainer or developer account in Debian, you can follow our bi-monthly welcome posts in bits.debian.org [38]. 38: https://bits.debian.org/tag/project.html Outside News ------------ Daniel Pocock attended the first summit of the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE), and sent a report [39] about it. 39: https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2016/09/msg00010.html Reports ------- LTS Freexian Monthly Reports Freexian issues monthly reports [40] about the work of paid contributors to Debian Long Term Support. 40: https://raphaelhertzog.com/tag/Freexian+LTS/ Reproducible Build status/update Follow the Reproducible builds blog [41] to get the weekly reports on their work in the "Stretch" cycle. 41: https://reproducible.alioth.debian.org/blog/ Quick Links from Debian Social Media ------------------------------------ This is an extract from the micronews.debian.org [42] 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, or Twitter). The items are given unformatted, and in descending order by date (recent news at the top). Sorry for the long list, we expect to deliver these "digests" more often in the future. 42: https://micronews.debian.org November Quicker Debian-installer using eatmydata http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Quicker_Debian_installations_using_eatmydata.html Did you see Debian mentioned in the media? Add the entry to our Press Coverage wiki page https://wiki.debian.org/PressCoverage2016 If you used to be a DD and want to access nm.debian.org (e.g. to reactivate your account), you can now do it using your Alioth credentials https://lists.debian.org/debian-newmaint/2016/11/msg00026.html Páginas do Debian Women traduzidas para português http://softwarelivre.org/debianbrasil/blog/paginas-do-debian-women-traduzidas-para-portugues "Google Summer of Code 2016 wrap-up: Debian" By Bruno Magalhães, published in the Google Open Source blog https://opensource.googleblog.com/2016/11/google-summer-of-code-2016-debian.html titanpad.com used by many Debian contributors is shutting down http://blog.titanpad.com/2016/11/shutting-down-titanpad_12.html "Diversity and Inclusion, Debian Redux", by Lucy Wayland https://aardvarkoffnord.wordpress.com/2016/11/12/diversity-and-inclusion-debian-redux/ Core Infrastructure Initiative Renews Funding for the Reproducible Builds Project. More Debian developers funded https://www.coreinfrastructure.org/news/announcements/2016/11/linux-foundations-core-infrastructure-initiative-renews-funding Uwe Kleine-König: Installing Debian Stretch on an Omnia Turris https://blog.kleine-koenig.org/ukl/installing-debian-stretch-on-an-omnia-turris.html Niels Thykier: Improvements in apt-file 3.1.2 https://nthykier.wordpress.com/2016/11/06/improvements-in-apt-file-3-1-2/ Call for proposals for the upcoming Mini Debian Conference Japan 2016 https://lists.debian.org/debian-events-apac/2016/11/msg00000.html New DDs and DMs in September and October 2016. Congratulations! https://bits.debian.org/2016/11/new-developers-2016-10.html The transition to OpenSSL 1.1.0 has started in unstable https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2016/11/msg00001.html Nueva lista de correo Debian para la comunidad colombiana https://lists.debian.org/debian-dug-co/ New mailing list created for Debian events in the Asia/Pacific region https://lists.debian.org/debian-events-apac/ New mailing list created for porting Debian to free and open RISC-V CPU arch https://lists.debian.org/debian-riscv/ Steve McIntyre: Twenty years... https://blog.einval.com/2016/11/01#twenty-ish Report from the first meeting in Curitiba to talk about the Bid to DebConf18 http://softwarelivre.org/debianbrasil/blog/report-from-the-first-meeting-in-curitiba-to-talk-about-the-bid-to-debconf18 October Stretch will be released for 10 architectures. Changes from Jessie: removal of powerpc and adding of mips64el. https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2016/10/msg00008.html LWN.net: Browserified JavaScript in Debian https://lwn.net/Articles/703840/ Laura Arjona Reina: "Rankings, Condorcet and free software: Calculating the results for the Stretch Artwork Survey" https://larjona.wordpress.com/2016/10/25/rankings-condorcet-and-free-software-calculating-the-results-for-the-stretch-artwork-survey/ DSA and FTP masters will move some Debian services to new machines this weekend https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2016/10/msg00005.html Debian mirrors have been busy serving the last security kernel update the last 24h. Did you already update? https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2016/msg00277.html LWN: Supporting UEFI secure boot in Debian https://lwn.net/Articles/703001/ Misc Developer News issue #42 released https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2016/10/msg00004.html Happy 20th Birthday, KDE! https://dot.kde.org/2016/10/14/happy-20th-birthday-kde Norbert Tretkowski writes about Gajim plugins packaged for Debian https://tretkowski.de/2016/10/09/gajim-plugins-packaged-for-debian/ About Pacemaker HA stack in Debian Jessie http://ral-arturo.org/2016/10/06/debian-jessie-ha.html by Arturo Borrero González Debian is participating in the next round of Outreachy! https://bits.debian.org/2016/10/debian-is-participating-in-the-next-round-of-outreachy.html Several donations boost reliability of Debian's core infrastructure https://www.debian.org/News/2016/20161003 Stretch transition freeze starts in a month, if you have transitions to do now is the moment https://nthykier.wordpress.com/2016/10/01/stretch-transition-freeze-in-a-month/ September Debian Brazil Community will be present at Latinoware 2016 http://softwarelivre.org/debianbrasil/blog/debian-brazil-community-will-be-present-at-latinoware-2016 Debian Project mourns the loss of Kristoffer H. Rose https://www.debian.org/News/2016/20160927 Updated Debian 8: 8.6 released https://www.debian.org/News/2016/20160917 debhelper 10 is now available in unstable https://nthykier.wordpress.com/2016/09/11/debhelper-10-is-now-available/ August Debian turns 23. Happy birthday Debian! https://bits.debian.org/2016/08/debian-turns-23.html Tor Project took inspiration from Debian for its social contract https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2016/08/msg00012.html Chaoskey 1.0 released (USB hardware random number generator) http://keithp.com/blogs/chaoskey/ Debian's GnuPG package is moving from the classic to the modern branch. https://debian-administration.org/users/dkg/weblog/116 Debian and Tor Services available as Onion Services https://bits.debian.org/2016/08/debian-and-tor-services-available-as-onion-services.html Do you use iptables? A lot of updates are coming. Thank you, Arturo! http://ral-arturo.blogspot.com/2016/08/huge-work-in-iptables-debian-package.html July Debian static websites are now available as Onion services. The list of services may be found on https://onion.debian.org Thanks DSA! and congratulations in the SysAdmin Day! Want to continue reading DPN? ----------------------------- Please help us create this newsletter. We still need more volunteer writers to watch the Debian community and report about what is going on. Please see the contributing page [43] to find out how to help. We're looking forward to receiving your mail at <debian-public...@lists.debian.org>. 43: https://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/HowToContribute Subscribe or Unsubscribe [44] from the Debian News mailing list 44: https://lists.debian.org/debian-news/ This issue of Debian Project News was edited by The Publicity Team with contributions from Sean Whitton, Paulo Henrique Santana, Stefano Zacchiroli, Holger Levsen and Justin B. Rye.
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