Software Freedom Conservancy needs your support!
On Fri 04 December 2015 with tags sfc conservancy fundraising contributing donationWritten by Mehdi Dogguy
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"Software Freedom Conservancy helps promote, improve, develop, and defend Free, Libre, and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects. Conservancy provides a non-profit home and infrastructure for FLOSS projects.", that is how Software Freedom Conservancy defines itself. Organizations like Conservancy allow free software developers to focus on what they do the best by doing copyleft enforcement, taking care of legal aspects and provide many services to its project members.
Last August, Debian and Conservancy announced a partnership and formed the Copyright Aggregation Project where, among other things, Conservancy will be able to hold copyrights for some Debian works and ensure compliance with copyleft so that those works remain in free software.
Recently, Conservancy launched a major fundraising campaign and needs more individual supporters to gain more sustainable and independent funding. This will allow the Conservancy to continue its efforts towards convincing more companies to comply with free software licenses such as the GPL and take legal actions when dialogue turns out to be unsuccessful. Conservancy needs your support now, more than ever!
Many Debian Developers and Contributors have already become Conservancy supporters. Please consider signing up as a supporter on https://sfconservancy.org/supporter/!
New Debian Developers and Maintainers (September and October 2015)
On Wed 11 November 2015 with tags projectWritten by Jean-Pierre Giraud
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The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months:
- ChangZhuo Chen (czchen)
- Eugene Zhukov (eugene)
- Hugo Lefeuvre (hle)
- Milan Kupcevic (milan)
- Timo Weingärtner (tiwe)
- Uwe Kleine-König (ukleinek)
- Bernhard Schmidt (berni)
- Stein Magnus Jodal (jodal)
- Prach Pongpanich (prach)
- Markus Koschany (apo)
- Andy Simpkins (rattustrattus)
The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months:
- Miguel A. Colón Vélez
- Afif Elghraoui
- Bastien Roucariès
- Carsten Schoenert
- Tomasz Nitecki
- Christoph Ulrich Scholler
- Mechtilde Stehmann
- Alexandre Viau
- Daniele Tricoli
- Russell Sim
- Benda Xu
- Andrew Kelley
- Ivan Udovichenko
- Shih-Yuan Lee
- Edward Betts
- Punit Agrawal
- Andreas Boll
- Dave Hibberd
- Alexandre Detiste
- Marcio de Souza Oliveira
- Andrew Ayer
- Alf Gaida
Congratulations!
New Debian Developers and Maintainers (July and August 2015)
On Tue 01 September 2015 with tags projectWritten by Ana Guerrero López
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The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months:
- Gianfranco Costamagna (locutusofborg)
- Graham Inggs (ginggs)
- Ximin Luo (infinity0)
- Christian Kastner (ckk)
- Tianon Gravi (tianon)
- Iain R. Learmonth (irl)
- Laura Arjona Reina (larjona)
The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months:
- Senthil Kumaran
- Riley Baird
- Robie Basak
- Alex Muntada
- Johan Van de Wauw
- Benjamin Barenblat
- Paul Novotny
- Jose Luis Rivero
- Chris Knadle
- Lennart Weller
Congratulations!
Debian turns 22!
On Sun 16 August 2015 with tags debian project anniversary birthday DebianDayWritten by Ana Guerrero Lopez and Valessio Brito
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Debian Perl Sprint 2015
On Mon 13 July 2015 with tags perl sprint barcelonaWritten by Alex Muntada
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The Debian Perl team had its first sprint in May and it was a success: 7 members met in Barcelona the weekend from May 22nd to May 24th to kick off the development around perl for Stretch and to work on QA tasks across the more than 3000 packages that the team maintains.
Even though the participants enjoyed the beautiful weather and the food very much, a good amount of work was also done:
- 53 bugs were filed or worked on, 31 uploads were accepted.
- The current practice of patch management (
quilt) was discussed and possible alternatives were shown (git-debcherryandgit-dpm). - Improvements were made in the Debian Perl Tools (
dpt) and discussed how to get track of upstream git history and tags. - Team's policies, documentation and recurring tasks were reviewed and updated.
- Perl 5.22 release was prepared and
src:perlplans for Stretch were discussed. autopkgtestwhitelists were reviewed, new packages added, and IRC notificacions by KGB were discussed.- Outstanding migrations were reviewed.
- Reproducibility issues with
POD_MAN_DATEwere commented.
The full report was posted to the relevant Debian mailing lists.
The participants would like to thank the Computer Architecture Department of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya for hosting us, and all donors to the Debian project who helped to cover a large part of our expenses.