New Debian Developers and Maintainers (November and December 2018)
On Tue 08 January 2019 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:
- Abhijith PA (abhijith)
- Philippe Thierry (philou)
- Kai-Chung Yan (seamlik)
- Simon Quigley (tsimonq2)
- Daniele Tricoli (eriol)
- Molly de Blanc (mollydb)
The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months:
- Nicolas Mora
- Wolfgang Silbermayr
- Marcos Fouces
- kpcyrd
- Scott Martin Leggett
Congratulations!
The Debian Cloud team held a sprint for the third time, hosted by Amazon at its Seattle offices from October 8th to October 10th, 2018.
We discussed the status of images on various platforms, especially in light of moving to FAI as the only method for building images on all the cloud platforms. The next topic was building and testing workflows, including the use of Debian machines for building, testing, storing, and publishing built images. This was partially caused by the move of all repositories to Salsa, which allows for better management of code changes, especially reviewing new code.
Recently we have made progress supporting cloud usage cases; grub and kernel optimised for cloud images help with reducing boot time and required memory footprint. There is also growing interest in non-x86 images, and FAI can now build such images.
Discussion of support for LTS images, which started at the sprint, has now moved to the debian-cloud mailing list). We also discussed providing many image variants, which requires a more advanced and automated workflow, especially regarding testing. Further discussion touched upon providing newer kernels and software like cloud-init from backports. As interest in using secure boot is increasing, we might cooperate with other team and use work on UEFI to provide images signed boot loader and kernel.
Another topic of discussion was the management of accounts used by Debian to build and publish Debian images. SPI will create and manage such accounts for Debian, including user accounts (synchronised with Debian accounts). Buster images should be published using those new accounts. Our Cloud Team delegation proposal (prepared by Luca Fillipozzi) was accepted by the Debian Project Leader. Sprint minutes are available, including a summary and a list of action items for individual members.
Debian welcomes its new Outreachy intern
On Thu 29 November 2018 with tags announce outreachyWritten by Laura Arjona Reina
Debian continues participating in Outreachy, and we'd like to welcome our new Outreachy intern for this round, lasting from December 2018 to March 2019.
Anastasia Tsikoza will work on Improving the integration of Debian derivatives with the Debian infrastructure and the community, mentored by Paul Wise and Raju Devidas.
Congratulations, Anastasia, and welcome!
From the official website: Outreachy provides three-month internships for people from groups traditionally underrepresented in tech. Interns work remotely with mentors from Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) communities on projects ranging from programming, user experience, documentation, illustration and graphical design, to data science.
The Outreachy programme is possible in Debian thanks to the efforts of Debian developers and contributors who dedicate their free time to mentor students and outreach tasks, and the Software Freedom Conservancy's administrative support, as well as the continued support of Debian's donors, who provide funding for the internships.
Join us and help extend Debian! You can follow the work of the Outreachy interns reading their blogs (they are syndicated in Planet Debian), and chat with us in the #debian-outreach IRC channel and mailing list.
New Debian Developers and Maintainers (September and October 2018)
On Thu 08 November 2018 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:
- Joseph Herlant (aerostitch)
- Aurélien Couderc (coucouf)
- Dylan Aïssi (daissi)
- Kunal Mehta (legoktm)
- Ming-ting Yao Wei (mwei)
- Nicolas Braud-Santoni (nicoo)
- Pierre-Elliott Bécue (peb)
- Stephen Gelman (ssgelm)
- Daniel Echeverry (epsilon)
- Dmitry Bogatov (kaction)
The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months:
- Sagar Ippalpalli
- Kurt Kremitzki
- Michal Arbet
- Peter Wienemann
- Alexis Bienvenüe
- Gard Spreemann
Congratulations!
New Debian Developers and Maintainers (July and August 2018)
On Sun 09 September 2018 with tags projectWritten by Jean-Pierre Giraud
Translations: ca es fr pt vi zh-CN
The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months:
- William Blough (bblough)
- Shengjing Zhu (zhsj)
- Boyuan Yang (byang)
- Thomas Koch (thk)
- Xavier Guimard (yadd)
- Valentin Vidic (vvidic)
- Mo Zhou (lumin)
- Ruben Undheim (rubund)
- Damiel Baumann (daniel)
The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months:
- Phil Morrell
- Raúl Benencia
- Brian T. Smith
- Iñaki Martin Malerba
- Hayashi Kentaro
- Arnaud Rebillout
Congratulations!