Hi, Thanks to Francesca and others, we just finished the last bits for the latest issue of the Debian Project News to be released Monday. We would appreciate reviews and translations.
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David
#use wml::debian::projectnews::header PUBDATE="2012-04-30" SUMMARY="Debian <q>clouds</q>, tour in Nicaragua, and European Synchrotron" # $Id: index.wml 3662 2012-04-27 21:33:12Z taffit $ # $Rev: 3662 $ # Status: [frozen] <intro issue="ninth" /> <toc-display/> <toc-add-entry name="cloud">Deploy your own <q>cloud</q> with Debian <q>Wheezy</q></toc-add-entry> <p> The Debian Project <a href="$(HOME)/News/2012/20120425">announced the availability, for its testing distribution, of some packages to create a private cloud</a>: among the others, <a href="http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/xcp-xapi";>xcp-xapi package</a> and <a href="http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/nova-xcp-plugins";>nova-xcp-plugins</a>. <q>Preserving user freedoms in the cloud is a tricky business and one of the major challenges ahead for Free Software. By easing the deployment of Debian-based private clouds we want to help our users in resisting the lure of giving up their freedoms in exchange of some flexibility,</q> said Stefano Zacchiroli, Debian Project Leader. </p> <toc-add-entry name="DebianTour">Debian Tour in Nicaragua</toc-add-entry> <p> The Debian Nicaraguan community is organizing the <a href="http://linuxtour.org/Debian_tour";>Debian Tour</a>: from April to June, members of the local Debian community will deliver talks in several universities in Nicaragua, helping students to learn about about the Debian Project and Free Software in general. The tour started in the city of Masaya, and will touch other cities as Managua and León. </p> <toc-add-entry name="esrf">Debian at ESRF</toc-add-entry> <p> Jérôme Kieffer noticed that <a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2012/04/msg00044.html";>the European Synchrotron in Grenoble</a> is migrating its computing infrastructure to Debian: the computer controlling the particle accelerator has been already migrated, as well as some data analysis servers and part of the computer cluster. The <a href="http://www.esrf.eu";>European Synchrotron Radiation Facility</a> (<q>ESRF</q>) is a joint facility supported and shared by various European countries which operates the most powerful synchrotron radiation source in Europe. <q>For data analysis Debian offers both the richest environment including the most used software and libraries in our field of research, and a rock solid distribution with security fixes,</q> added Jérôme in <a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-www/2012/04/msg00157.html";>another mail</a>. </p> <toc-add-entry name="dplbits">Bits from the DPL</toc-add-entry> <p> Stefano Zacchiroli sent his <a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/04/msg00006.html";>monthly report on DPL activities</a>. During the last month, Stefano informed the project about <a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2012/03/msg00092.html";>a proposal of revenue sharing agreement from DuckDuckGo</a>, marked as accepted <a href="http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/";>DEP-5</a>, worked with Kenshi Muto to transfer the ownership of the Debian trademark in Japan to SPI. Stefano also gave <a href="http://www.repubblica.it/tecnologia/2012/03/26/news/intervista_debian-30986031/";>an interview about Debian and Free Software in general</a> (in Italian), to one of the major newspapers in Italy, La Repubblica. Thanks to Matteo Cortese, who translated it, an <a href="http://upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/posts/2012/03/intervista_per_la_Repubblica/en/";>English version</a> of the interview is also available. </p> <toc-add-entry name="interviews">Interviews</toc-add-entry> <p> Raphaël Hertzog published a <q>People behind Debian</q> interview with <a href="http://raphaelhertzog.com/2012/04/19/people-behind-debian-samuel-thibault-working-on-accessibility-and-the-hurd/";>Samuel Thibault</a> member of accessibility and Hurd teams. </p> <toc-add-entry name="other">Other news</toc-add-entry> <p> Vincent Bernat wrote a tutorial on <a href="http://vincent.bernat.im/en/blog/2012-xbmc-debian-wheezy.html";>how to install XBMC on Debian <q>Wheezy</q></a>. <a href="http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/xbmc";>XBMC</a> is a media center supporting a wide range of digital media and remote controls, which â thanks to the hard work of Andres Mejia â has been recently <a href="http://xbmc.org/theuni/2012/04/10/xbmc-accepted-into-debian/";>accepted into Debian</a>. </p> <p> Loic Dachary sent a <a href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/openstack-devel/2012-April/000748.html";>report from OpenStack summit</a> where he represented the Debian Project. </p> <p> Ben Hutchings, member of the Debian Kernel Team, announced that <a href="http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1284809/focus%3D1285786";>he will maintain the Linux kernel version 3.2 as long-term kernel at kernel.org, in substitution of Greg Kroah-Harman</a>. Last January, Ben announced that Debian <q>Wheezy</q> <a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/01/msg00012.html";>will use Linux 3.2</a>. </p> <p> Paul Wise noticed that <a href="http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/log/2012/04/26/when-a-distro-dies/";>two Debian derivatives shut down</a> in the last two months. Thanks to the <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census";>derivatives census</a>, some <a href="http://dex.alioth.debian.org/census/Vanillux/patches/";>patches</a> are still available and he provided an analysis of them. </p> <p> Ana Guerrero announced that <a href="http://ekaia.org/blog/2012/04/27/debian-in-the-google-summer-of-code-2012/";>fifteen Debian projects have been selected for the Google Summer of Code 2012</a>, which are six more projects than last year. </p> <toc-add-entry name="events">Upcoming events</toc-add-entry> <p>There are several upcoming Debian-related events:</p> <ul> <li>April 29-30, Shanghai, China â <a href="$(HOME)/events/2012/0429-shangai-bsp">Debian Bug Squashing Party</a></li> <li>May 11-13, York, UK â <a href="$(HOME)/events/2012/0511-york-bsp">Debian Bug Squashing Party</a></li> </ul> <p> You can find more information about Debian-related events and talks on the <a href="$(HOME)/events">events section</a> of the Debian web site, or subscribe to one of our events mailing lists for different regions: <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-eu";>Europe</a>, <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-nl";>Netherlands</a>, <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-ha";>Hispanic America</a>, <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-na";>North America</a>. </p> <p>Do you want to organise a Debian booth or a Debian install party? Are you aware of other upcoming Debian-related events? Have you delivered a Debian talk that you want to link on our <a href="$(HOME)/events/talks">talks page</a>? Send an email to the <a href="mailto:eve...@debian.org">Debian Events Team</a>. </p> <toc-add-entry name="newcontributors">New Debian Contributors</toc-add-entry> <p> One applicant has been <a href="https://nm.debian.org/nmlist.php#newmaint";>accepted</a> as Debian Developers and Nine people have <a href="http://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/new-maintainers.cgi";>started to maintain packages</a> since the previous issue of the Debian Project News. Please welcome Eduardo Trápani, Norman Messtorff, Frank Neuber, Daniel Pocock, Artur Rona, Yongzhi Pan, Nuno Carvalho, Daniel MartÃ, Jussi Hakala, and Eric Beuque into our project!</p> <toc-add-entry name="rcstats">Release-Critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release</toc-add-entry> ## release= codename for the current testing release ## testing= number of bugs as defined by this UDD query â http://ur1.ca/8p8k0 (for the not shortened url, look at webwml/english/template/debian/projectnews/boilerplates.wml on the webwml repository) ## tobefixed: number of bugs as defined byt this UDD query â http://ur1.ca/8p8lo ## example: # <rcstats release="Wheezy" # testing="613" # tobefixed="410" /> <rcstats release="Wheezy" testing="781" tobefixed="543" /> <toc-add-entry name="dsa">Important Debian Security Advisories</toc-add-entry> <p>Debian's Security Team recently released advisories for these packages (among others): <a href="$(HOME)/security/2012/dsa-2452">apache2</a>, <a href="$(HOME)/security/2012/dsa-2453">gajim</a>, <a href="$(HOME)/security/2012/dsa-2454">openssl</a>, <a href="$(HOME)/security/2012/dsa-2455">typo3-src</a>, <a href="$(HOME)/security/2012/dsa-2456">dropbear</a>, <a href="$(HOME)/security/2012/dsa-2457">iceweasel</a>, <a href="$(HOME)/security/2012/dsa-2458">iceape</a>, <a href="$(HOME)/security/2012/dsa-2459">quagga</a>, <a href="$(HOME)/security/2012/dsa-2460">asterisk</a> and <a href="$(HOME)/security/2012/dsa-2461">spip</a>. Please read them carefully and take the proper measures.</p> <p>Debian's Backports Team released an advisory for the package: <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/2012/04/msg00000.html";>samba</a>. Please read it carefully and take the proper measures.</p> <p>Please note that these are a selection of the more important security advisories of the last weeks. If you need to be kept up to date about security advisories released by the Debian Security Team, please subscribe to the <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/";>security mailing list</a> (and the separate <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/";>backports list</a>, and <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/";>stable updates list</a>) for announcements. </p> <toc-add-entry name="nnwp">New and noteworthy packages</toc-add-entry> <p> 180 packages were added to the unstable Debian archive recently. <a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg";>Among many others</a> are:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/devede";>devede â simple application to create video DVDs</a></li> <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/dfc";>dfc â display file system usage using graph and colors</a></li> <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/freetuxtv";>freetuxtv â Internet television and radio player</a></li> <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/gif2apng";>gif2apng â tool for converting animated GIF images to APNG format</a></li> <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/git-ftp";>git-ftp â Git powered FTP client written as shell script</a></li> <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/gnac";>gnac â audio converter for GNOME</a></li> <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/nqp";>nqp â Not Quite Perl compiler</a></li> <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/packagekit-tools";>packagekit-tools â PackageKit command-line tools</a></li> <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/parallel";>parallel â build and execute command lines from standard input in parallel</a></li> <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/postfixadmin";>postfixadmin â virtual mail hosting interface for Postfix</a></li> </ul> <toc-add-entry name="wnpp">Work-needing packages</toc-add-entry> ## link= link to the mail report from w...@debian.org to debian-devel ML ## orphaned= number of packages orphaned according to $link ## rfa= number of packages up for adoption according to $link <wnpp link="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/04/msg00634.html"; orphaned="408" rfa="166" /> <toc-add-entry name="continuedpn">Want to continue reading DPN?</toc-add-entry> <continue-dpn /> #use wml::debian::projectnews::footer editor="Moray Allan, Cédric Boutillier, Francesca Ciceri, Norman GarcÃa, David Prévot, Justin B Rye" # Translators may also add a translator="foo, bar, baz" to the previous line
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