Parabola Newsletter for July 2016 ================================= Things that have happened in the last month (in roughly reverse-chronological order):
- Newsletter Luke Shumaker decided to write a monthly newsletter. Tell him of things that should be included. The goal of this newsletter isn't necessarily to be a newsletter for end users, but to be able to keep interested parties informed on what is going on in Parabola _development_. - Git hosting migrated to winston.parabola.nu Parabola's git hosting has moved from the older proton.parabola.nu server to the newer winston.parabola.nu. Accompanying this change is the new git.parabola.nu domain, which "replaces" the old projects.parabola.nu domain. Don't worry! The "projects" domain will continue to work indefinitely. Associated with this, we've been writing exhaustive documentation on how Winston is set up, so no developer will ever need to say "I don't know how lukeshu set it up" again :) https://wiki.parabola.nu/Hacking:Servers/Winston We want to give thanks 1985 Hosting Company <https://1984.is/> for donating the winston.parabola.nu server. - New Parabola package: dbscripts https://projects.parabola.nu/dbscripts.git has graduated into https://git.parabola.nu/packages/dbscripts.git Now, the Parabola Pacman repository programs are packaged into an easy-to-install pacman package, instead of some awkward git repository you need to check out. This was https://labs.parabola.nu/issues/808 . - New Parabola package: parabola-hackers https://projects.parabola.nu/~lukeshu/nshd.git has graduated into https://git.parabola.nu/packages/parabola-hackers.git Along the way, it picked up the scripts that ware in hackers.git. parabola-hackers is a set of tools for working with an using the hackers.git store of users and developers. Notably, it contains programs for generating the Parabola pacman keyring, creating system users for developers on the server, and managing SSH authentication. It is fully deployed on winston.parabola.nu, and should be deployed on proton.parabola.nu soon. - New Parabola Social Contract After much discussion, the Parabola community ratified a new "Parabola Social Contract" (replacing the old "Parabola/GNU Linux Social Contract") https://wiki.parabola.nu/Parabola_Social_Contract - Coliberator 2016 Parabola participated in the Coliberator 2016 Free Software conference organized by our fiscal sponsor Fundația Ceata in Romania on June 4-5. https://www.parabola.nu/news/parabola-will-take-part-in-coliberator-2016/ Things that are upcoming in the next month: - FISL17 Conference Parabola will be participating in the FISL17 Free Software conference in Brazil on July 13-16. André Silva ("Emulatorman") and Márcio Silva ("coadde") will be presenting at July 13, 16:00 (UTC-3). We want to thank everyone who donated to Parabola, and our fiscal sponsor Fundația Ceata for making this possible. https://www.parabola.nu/news/parabola-will-take-part-in-fisl17/ - autobuilder Hopefully we'll get autobuilder running on winston soon, to relieve pressure on Parabola developers with simple packages like parabola-keyring, your-freedom, et c. As of right now, there are no concrete plans to turn autobuilder into a more complete build server, but that is something we are interested in doing in the future. https://git.parabola.nu/server/autobuilder.git/ -- Happy hacking, ~ Luke Shumaker Parabola _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.parabola.nu/mailman/listinfo/dev
