Re: [Tails-dev] Help required: test suite vs. Tor bootstrapping on buster

2020-08-01 Thread Cyril Brulebois
intrigeri (2020-07-31): > I've looked at the logs you've sent me and unfortunately, this did not > help me understand what's happening. > > Sharing the *.journal and Tor log artifacts could give us more clues, > perhaps. Full directory for that run shared in the tarball available at:

Re: [Tails-dev] Fixing Torrent files for 4.9

2020-07-29 Thread Cyril Brulebois
emma peel (2020-07-29): > I am not a master (no logs, no masters!) but: > > In my experience you can > > - download a torrent to a location > - stop it (without deleting the contents) > - start another torrent with the same file names This seems to work just fine with rtorrent indeed. My

[Tails-dev] Fixing Torrent files for 4.9

2020-07-29 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, So, I had some troubles generating + signing Torrent files (for some reasons, my GPG hardware token refused my user PIN several times, and I had to iterate/restart; see below for why those topics are intertwined), and it seems the generated Torrent files are starting to download just fine (as

[Tails-dev] Tails 4.10 release, testing schedule

2020-07-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, We haven't decided otherwise at the moment, so by default I'll be the release manager for Tails 4.10, scheduled to be released on 2020-08-25 (Mozilla seems to still agree :)). This will be a bugfix release. Manual testers, please report whether you are available for testing on 2020-08-25

Re: [Tails-dev] Requesting help: mass-unsubscribe from notifications

2020-07-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
intrigeri (2020-07-28): > I was confused and unclear. I've sent you the list of issues for which > you're in the list of "participants", which I believe is a superset of > the list of issues to which you've been subscribed automatically: even > if you've opted out of notifications for such an

Re: [Tails-dev] Help required: test suite vs. Tor bootstrapping on buster

2020-07-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Cyril Brulebois (2020-07-28): > This is hindering: > - my general ability to test Tails; > - my specific ability to check locally what failed in Jenkins, namely >all of features/additional_software_packages.feature > > Looking at XMPP logs (I didn't check what's happe

Re: [Tails-dev] Requesting help: mass-unsubscribe from notifications

2020-07-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
intrigeri (2020-07-28): > Cyril Brulebois (2020-07-27): > > Having being responsible for a number of releases lately, I've been > > automatically “subscribed” to any tickets I ever touched, even if only > > to push back the target version (Redmine) / milestone (GitLab) to

Re: [Tails-dev] Help required: test suite vs. Tor bootstrapping on buster

2020-07-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
intrigeri (2020-07-28): > That sounds annoying indeed! I'm happy to try to help. To do so, I'll > need the debug log (saved as debug.log by the test suite). Great, thanks. In the meanwhile, I had cleaned up all temporary directories, rebooted the machine, etc. to be extra sure. I've just

[Tails-dev] Help required: test suite vs. Tor bootstrapping on buster

2020-07-27 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, I had noticed this during earlier release preps, but didn't get to the bottom of it: with a buster system used exclusively for Tails purposes (so no fancy extra packages installed), I cannot get the test suite to get Tor bootstrapped: | Step failed while creating checkpoint: Tor is ready

[Tails-dev] Requesting help: mass-unsubscribe from notifications

2020-07-27 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Having being responsible for a number of releases lately, I've been automatically “subscribed” to any tickets I ever touched, even if only to push back the target version (Redmine) / milestone (GitLab) to the next release. A bunch of such tickets were closed already, and aren't moving

[Tails-dev] Help appreciated to investigate some Jenkins performance issue

2020-07-27 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Instead of building all IUKs serially on a single Jenkins worker, I've developed a proof of concept to trigger them all in parallel, across all workers. The downside is that it didn't seem obvious how to gather all results, so I went for a downstream job; for 4.9, jobs are:

[Tails-dev] Preparing the upcoming release: 4.9

2020-07-15 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, After a somewhat extended break, I'm trying to plan my coming back to Tails duties to get ready for the upcoming release (4.9, July 27-28). It'll take me a few days to catch up with at least Jenkins results, trying to prioritize GitLab stuff that's waiting on me, and checking recent changes

[Tails-dev] Releasing Tails 4.7 vs. the GitLab transition

2020-06-02 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi folks, I must say I'm pretty much impressed by the GitLab transition. I've only started a few days ago to get a feeling what a GitLab world looks like for us, and there were a few blockers, but with some help from the sysadmins team, we managed to get around them (basically cheating by

[Tails-dev] Tails 4.8 release, testing schedule

2020-06-02 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, We haven't decided otherwise at the moment, so by default I'll be the release manager for Tails 4.8, scheduled to be released on 2020-06-30 (Mozilla seems to still agree :)). Two releases in the same calendar month, woohoo! This will be a bugfix release. Manual testers, please report

Re: [Tails-dev] GitLab is now in production

2020-06-01 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Cyril Brulebois (2020-05-29): > > Where to ask questions and report problems > > == > > > > There are most certainly some rough edges, confusion, and bugs caused > > by this migration, so: > > > > - If

Re: [Tails-dev] GitLab is now in production

2020-05-29 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, intrigeri (2020-05-29): > This was announced to core contributors last week, let's now make this > official: we've switched to GitLab! mmm m m m" " mmm m mm

Re: [Tails-dev] Tor Browser 9.5 is ready for testing (!)

2020-05-29 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Matthew Finkel (2020-05-29): > We are happy to announce the first Tor Browser 9.5 release candidate > for wider testing. Packages can be found at: > > https://people.torproject.org/~gk/builds/9.5-build2/ > > Tor Browser 9.5 is a very exciting update as it is the first stable > release of the

Re: [Tails-dev] Next attempt to migrate to GitLab: May 19th

2020-05-13 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Sandro Knauß (2020-05-13): > We stop and rolled back our last attempt to migrate to Gitlab in > April. We now start a second attempt on May 19th. At least we now have > a plan to shorten the time of unavailability of the parts of our > infrastructure. But still during this day and the following

Re: [Tails-dev] Request for change in communication culture

2020-05-13 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi anonym, -dev & -project, sajolida (2020-05-13): > anonym: > > What are your thoughts on this? I know this proposal isn't 100% > > bullet proof, it's more of a necessary reaction to the fact that we > > won't have a person doing all this work for us any longer. I fully welcome this proposal!

[Tails-dev] Tails 4.7 release, testing schedule

2020-05-05 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, We haven't decided otherwise at the moment, so by default I'll be the release manager for Tails 4.7, scheduled to be released on 2020-06-02 (Mozilla seems to still agree :)). This will be a bugfix release. Manual testers, please report whether you are available for testing on 2020-06-02

Re: [Tails-dev] Tails 4.6 release, testing schedule, TR

2020-04-07 Thread Cyril Brulebois
For the avoidance of doubt: Cyril Brulebois (2020-04-07): > If you want to volunteer for being the trusted reproduced (TR) for this > release, please let me know! (I'll adjust the calendar accordingly.) I've tried to batch too many things together, the TR is usually picked among a sma

[Tails-dev] Tails 4.6 release, testing schedule, TR

2020-04-07 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, We haven't decided otherwise at the moment, so by default I'll be the release manager for Tails 4.6, scheduled to be released on 2020-05-05 (Mozilla seems to still agree :)). This will be a bugfix release. Manual testers, please report whether you are available for testing on 2020-05-05

Re: [Tails-dev] fontconfig cache nightmare in my project

2020-03-30 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Andres Pavez (2020-03-30): > I appreciate your response. Sorry, I was not clear. I have the problem > with fontconfig version 2.13.1-2. > > (version 2.11 works fine and reproducible) > > Thank you again for your time. My bad, I picked the wrong base version for my dget/debsnap/debdiff dance.

Re: [Tails-dev] fontconfig cache nightmare in my project

2020-03-30 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Andres, Andres Pavez (2020-03-30): > I am looking for some help with the fontconfig cache that is not > reproducible version 2.13.1 how you guys make reproducible ?. it is > not on your final report and not in > (https://redmine.tails.boum.org/code/issues/15187) > > I have a small project

Re: [Tails-dev] Do you read the changelog?

2020-03-27 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, [ Quick reply during a final local test suite run. ] intrigeri (2020-03-27): > By and large, yes. > > One thing that would change is that you would get raw data from Git + > GitLab issues/MRs, without the rephrasing step currently done by the > RM. I don't know how much this rephrasing

Re: [Tails-dev] Test suite: new setup needed on devel branch

2020-03-22 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hey intrigeri, intrigeri (2020-03-22): > today I've merged anonym's work on replacing Sikuli usage in our > automated test suite (#15460). > > For now, this implies that in order to run locally the test suite from > devel, or from a branch based on devel, you need to adjust your setup: >

[Tails-dev] Tails 4.5 release candidate schedule

2020-03-20 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Cyril Brulebois (2020-03-12): > I'll be the release manager for Tails 4.5, scheduled to be released on > 2020-04-07 (Mozilla seems to still agree :)). > > This is a major release, so it will be preceded by a release candidate > somewhen late March. The details regarding t

Re: [Tails-dev] "Numerous security holes in Tails 3.11" page is missing

2020-03-12 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi xin, [ Yes, I know this is a 1+ year old topic, I'm finally going through my local tails-dev@ copy, removing spam, and marking everything as read, so that I can easily spot new mails. Your mail stood out, as one of the very few legitimate yet unanswered mails. ] xin (2019-01-29): >

Re: [Tails-dev] Tails 4.5 release and testing schedule

2020-03-12 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, sajolida (2020-03-13): > Cyril Brulebois: > > This is a major release, so it will be preceded by a release candidate > > somewhen late March. The details regarding the exact timing of the RC > > still need to be discussed (in an upcoming RM meeting). > > Let us

[Tails-dev] Tails 4.5 release and testing schedule

2020-03-12 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, I'll be the release manager for Tails 4.5, scheduled to be released on 2020-04-07 (Mozilla seems to still agree :)). This is a major release, so it will be preceded by a release candidate somewhen late March. The details regarding the exact timing of the RC still need to be discussed (in an

[Tails-dev] RMea culpa

2020-02-03 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi folks, I'd like to offer my apologies for my tendency to be, or at least appear to be, negative on the tails-dev XMPP channel when I'm preparing a new Tails release. I tend to be easily frustrated when I cannot do anything else than waiting for some cron job to get started, when some network

[Tails-dev] Tails 4.3 release and testing schedule

2020-01-07 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, anonym (Cc'ed) will be the release manager for Tails 4.3, which is currently scheduled for February 11 (no changes at the moment on the Mozilla side regarding Firefox 68.5). I'll let him give more details about the release schedule if needed. Most likely, the customary manual testing session

[Tails-dev] Tails 4.2 release and testing schedule

2019-12-04 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, intrigeri (Cc'ed) will be the release manager for Tails 4.2, which is scheduled for January 7. I'll let him give more details about the release schedule if needed. Most likely, the customary manual testing session will happen on Tuesday, January 7. Sometimes it's possible to start it the

Re: [Tails-dev] Reminder about our Code of Conduct

2019-12-02 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Tails (2019-12-01): > This is an automated reminder. > > The Tails Code of Conduct applies to this list, as any other space used > by the Tails project: > > https://tails.boum.org/contribute/working_together/code_of_conduct/ > > Like the technical community as a whole, the Tails team and

Re: [Tails-dev] Tails 4.1 release and testing schedule

2019-11-25 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hey tails-dev & tails-l10n, intrigeri (2019-10-22): > kibi (Cc'ed) will be the release manager for Tails 4.1, which is > scheduled for December 3. I'll let him give more details about the > release schedule if needed. > > Most likely, the customary manual testing session will happen on >

[Tails-dev] Release schedule for Tails 3.16

2019-08-27 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, The 3.16 bugfix release is due on the 3rd of September, here's the schedule: * 2019-09-02: build and upload tentative 3.16 ISO image * 2019-09-03: Test and release 3.16 Usual manual testers: please tell me privately whether you're available to test the ISO on September 3rd by 17:00

[Tails-dev] Updated release schedule for Tails 3.14

2019-05-10 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Cyril Brulebois (2019-05-03): > The 3.14 bugfix release is due on the 14th of May, here's the schedule: > > * 2019-05-13: build and upload tentative 3.14 ISO image > * 2019-05-14: Test and release 3.14 This has now been postponed by a week: Quarter Soft Freeze

[Tails-dev] Release schedule for Tails 3.14

2019-05-03 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, The 3.14 bugfix release is due on the 14th of May, here's the schedule: * 2019-05-13: build and upload tentative 3.14 ISO image * 2019-05-14: Test and release 3.14 Usual manual testers: please tell me privately whether you're available to test the ISO on May 14 by 17:00 (Berlin/Paris

Re: [Tails-dev] [orca-list] Tails installation accessibility

2019-02-15 Thread Cyril Brulebois
actually am not exactly sure what the problem is. Any thoughts? > > > > Regards, > > Cory Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)<https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant signature.asc Description: PGP

[Tails-dev] Automerge of devel into feature/buster?

2019-01-14 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, As a background task, I have been checking what was happening regarding snapshots vs. feature/buster, and finally pushed a revert of an earlier commit of mine (https://redmine.tails.boum.org/code/issues/16316) but the build in Jenkins failed because devel is automatically merged into it.

Re: [Tails-dev] Bug#914980: linux-image-4.18.0-3-amd64: linux image installed via 4.18.0-3 won't reboot on T500 and X201

2018-12-17 Thread Cyril Brulebois
d once I've noticed that wasn't the case yet. We might end up temporarily downgrading the kernel in Tails instead, though. https://redmine.tails.boum.org/code/issues/16224 Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois -- Debian Consultant @ DEBAMAX -- https://debamax.com/ commit 6b1dd9475806fa55283f9e934b2bec5fbc6e60af Au

[Tails-dev] Planning for the 3.11 release

2018-12-03 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, And sorry for the late notice. The 3.11 release is planned for next week. From our calendar (https://tails.boum.org/contribute/calendar/): 2018-12-11: Release 3.11 (Firefox 60.4, bugfix release) I'd like to build the image the day before: Monday, 2018-12-10, so that we have a little

Re: [Tails-dev] language_statistics.sh script broken?

2017-12-11 Thread Cyril Brulebois
the new download page That includes getting rid of “./misc/unsafe_browser_warning” in this file: wiki/src/contribute/l10n_tricks/core_po_files.txt I'm attaching the full diff (trap commented out in addition to the change mentioned above) that lets me compute stats for the commit you mentioned (8d60cc4596). Cheers,

Re: [Tails-dev] language_statistics.sh script broken?

2017-12-10 Thread Cyril Brulebois
variable) in that script to avoid cleaning tmp/pot when it's called with this extra setting from the language_statistics.sh script? Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois -- Debian Consultant @ DEBAMAX -- https://debamax.com/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Tails-de

[Tails-dev] [PATCH] Build doc: fix typos.

2017-12-08 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Fix veing/being, and fix extraneous newline inside a `code` fragment. --- wiki/src/contribute/build.mdwn | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/wiki/src/contribute/build.mdwn b/wiki/src/contribute/build.mdwn index 5e2be56bb5..cc58087e60 100644 ---