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#use wml::debian::projectnews::header PUBDATE="2013-12-02" SUMMARY="Bits from the Release team, a new member for the Technical Committee, Alioth is back, reports from November mini DebConfs, bits from the Debian Med team" # $Id: index.wml 5296 2013-11-29 13:48:15Z boutil $ # $Rev: 5296 $ # Status: [frozen] ## substitute XXX with the number (expressed in letter) of the issue. ## please note that the var issue is not automagically localized, so ## translators need to put it directly in their language! ## example: <intro issue="fourth" /> <intro issue="twenty-first" /> <toc-display/> <toc-add-entry name="bits-rt">Bits from the Release team</toc-add-entry> <p> Niels Thykier <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2013/11/msg00007.html";> a summary of the sprint of the release team, in Paris on November 23-24. Niels Thykier will join Adam as release manager for Jessie, replacing Neil McGovern. Ivo De Decker becomes a release assistant, whereas Dann Frazier is leaving his position as stable kernel liaison and Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt, Luk Claes and Steve Langasek are stepping down from their positions as release wizards. Concerns have been raised about some architectures, in particular ia64, which is not anymore considered as a blocker for testing migration. The release team also agreed that it should be acceptable for most uploads to unstable to be uploaded with medium urgency, to reduce the delay for testing migrations. </p> <toc-add-entry name="tc-member">A new member for the Technical Committee</toc-add-entry> <p> In mid 2012, the <a href="http://www.debian.org/devel/tech-ctte.html";>Technical Committee</a>, the body in charge to make the final decision on technical disputes in the Debian project, took nominations from the project at large for a possible new member. After private discussions, the Technical Committee <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2013/11/msg00008.html";>decided</a> to propose to the Debian Project Leader, Lucas Nussbaum, the nomination of Keith Packard as a new member. Lucas immediately <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2013/11/msg00009.html";>confirmed this appointment</a>. Keith will thus join Bdale Garbee, Russ Allbery, Don Armstrong, Andreas Barth, Ian Jackson, Steve Langasek and Colin Watson in the Technical Committee. <q><a href="http://keithp.com/blogs/Debian_TC/";>I look forward to working within the committee to further Debian's goals as the universal operating system</a></q>, Keith said. </p> <toc-add-entry name="alioth">Alioth is back</toc-add-entry> <p> On November 10, the Debian server <tt>vask</tt> suffered catastrophic disk failure. This machine was hosting the storage for <tt><a href="http://alioth.debian.org/";>alioth.debian.org</tt></a>, the Debian service running FusionForge and giving access to repositories of many packaging teams. After 10 days of intense work to recover the data and move the Alioth service from a dual <tt>vask</tt>/<tt>wagner</tt> setup to a new machine <tt><a href="http://db.debian.org/machines.cgi?host=moszumanska";>moszumanska</a></tt>, the Alioth admins <a href=http://lists.debian.org/debian-infrastructure-announce/2013/11/msg00002.html>announced that the Alioth service is up again</a>. Please update your known SSH keys, and make sure your data is available on the new host. </p> <toc-add-entry name="minidebconfs">Reports from November mini DebConfs</toc-add-entry> <p> In mid November, two mini DebConfs were organized: one in <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianTaiwan/MiniDebConf2013";>Taiwan</a>, the other one in <a href="https://debconf.org/wiki/Miniconf-UK/2013";>Cambridge, UK</a>. </p> <p> During November 9 to November 11, 41 people from 3 different countries (Taiwan, China, Japan) gathered in Wulai, Taiwan sharing the experience of using Debian. In this conference, participants discussed and learned how to port Debian to sh4-based set-top box and various ARM dev platforms. Other topics are using Debian to developing something interesting, like creating quadrotor helicopter, developing apps for FirefoxOS on Debian, implement browser by QML, BigData, server deployment, etc. Links to the videos and slides of the talks are available in the Schedule section of the <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianTaiwan/MiniDebConf2013";>wiki page</a>. </p> <p> The <a href="http://blog.einval.com/2013/11/25#Cambridge-2013";>mini DebConf in Cambridge</a> welcomed roughly 60 people to the ARM offices from November 14 to November 17. It started off with two days of sprint time, set aside for focussed hacking. A selection of ARM development boards were available for people to play with. The sprint sessions also saw some lively discussions on a couple of topics: the status of the ARM ports in Debian and automated system testing. The last two days were more in the traditional style of conference session. Two full days of talks covered a wide range of topics: system testing to git tools, Debian ftp team work to bootstrapping the new arm64 port, improving ways of tracking and crediting Debian contributions to dealing with the new world of UEFI. You can find more details on the <a href="https://debconf.org/wiki/Miniconf-UK/2013";>wiki page</a> and videos of the talks are <a href="http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2013/mini-debconf-cambridge/";>available</a> in various formats. </p> <toc-add-entry name="bitsmed">Bits from the Debian Med team</toc-add-entry> Andreas Tille sent <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2013/11/msg00006.html";>some bits</a> of the <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed";>Debian Med team</a>. After mentioning talks he gave at conferences covering a variety of topic around Debian and open source software in the medical field, Andreas points out an <a href="http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debian-med/trunk/community/interview/interview_r.nair-a.tille.log?view=markup";>interview with Rajeev Nair</a>, the head a health care journal < a href="http://www.healthcafe.in"; > via Jabber. Discussion surrounded Debian and open-source software contributions to the health care industry, and how Debian is at the fore front. This interview triggered the team to assemble an <a href="http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/docs/debian-med-healthcafe.pdf";>article</a> targeting at interested readers about Free Software in medicine with not necessarily informatics background. Debian Med is now looking for ideas where to publish this article. The team was involved in several events, such as code-fest was held in Berlin < a href="http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/Codefest_2013";>the Codefest of the Bioinformatics fundation</a> in Berlin, to continue Debian's contributions to open source software in the medical field. The team is scheduling a <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed/Meeting/Aberdeen2014";>sprint</a> for February 2014 and invites people interested in developing packages helpful in health care and bioinformatics. Finally check out future plans for <a href="http://debian-med.alteholz.de/advent/";>Debian Med Bug Squashing Advent Calendar 2013</a>. </p> <toc-add-entry name="other">Other news</toc-add-entry> <p> Paul Tagliamonte <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2013/11/msg00002.html";>sent a call for proposals of desktop themes for Jessie</a>. Propositions are accepted until February, 5. More information and instruction to submit proposals are available on the <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianDesktop/Artwork/Jessie";>dedicated page of the Debian wiki</a>. </p> <p> Sylvestre Ledru <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2013/11/msg00004.html";>announced</a> that the <a href="http://france.debian.net";>Debian France</a> association will be organizing a <a href="http://france.debian.net/events/minidebconf2014/";>mini DebConf</a> in Paris, on January, 18 and 19 in the buildings of <a href="http://www.telecom-paristech.fr/";>Télécom ParisTech</a>. Please consult the <a href="http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/Miniconf-Paris/2014";>wiki page</a> to register or submit a talk. </p> <p> Moray Allan <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2013/11/msg00005.html";>sent a call for volunteers to join the DebConf team to help preparing the next <a href="http://debconf14.debconf.org/";>DebConf14</a>, which will be held in Summer 2014, in Portland, United States. Moray also indicated that any wish to propose a bid for DebConf15 should be mentioned on the <a href="mailto:debconf-t...@lists.debconf.org">DebConf team mailing list</a> and that bid material should be ready by December 31. </p> <toc-add-entry name="events">Upcoming events</toc-add-entry> <p>There is one upcoming Debian-related events:</p> <ul> <li>December 14, Bonn, Germany — <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/de/2013/tarentHackday";>Debian hack day</a> in <a href="https://www.tarent.de/";>tarent</a>'s offices</li> </ul> <p> You can find more information about Debian-related events and talks on the <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents";>events section</a> of the Debian wiki, 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="$(HOME)/events/talks">talks page</a>? Send an email to the <a href="mailto:eve...@debian.org">Debian Events Team</a>. </p> <toc-add-entry name="newcontributors">New Debian Contributors</toc-add-entry> <p> Four people have <a href="http://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/new-maintainers.cgi";>started to maintain packages</a> since the previous issue of the Debian Project News. Please welcome Thibault Cohen, Torge Szczepanek, Beren Minor, Takanori Suzuki, and Peter Roberts into our project!</p> <toc-add-entry name="dsa">Important Debian Security Advisories</toc-add-entry> <p>Debian's Security Team recently released advisories for these packages (among others): <a href="$(HOME)/security/2013/dsa-2793">libav</a>, <a href="$(HOME)/security/2013/dsa-2794">spip</a>, <a href="$(HOME)/security/2013/dsa-2795">lighttpd</a>, <a href="$(HOME)/security/2013/dsa-2796">torque</a>, <a href="$(HOME)/security/2013/dsa-2797">icedove</a>, <a href="$(HOME)/security/2013/dsa-2798">curl</a>, <a href="$(HOME)/security/2013/dsa-2799">chromium-browser</a>, <a href="$(HOME)/security/2013/dsa-2800">nss</a>, <a href="$(HOME)/security/2013/dsa-2801">libhttp-body-perl</a>, <a href="$(HOME)/security/2013/dsa-2802">nginx</a>, <a href="$(HOME)/security/2013/dsa-2803">quagga</a>, <a href="$(HOME)/security/2013/dsa-2804">drupal7</a>, and <a href="$(HOME)/security/2013/dsa-2805">sup-mail</a>. Please read them 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> 310 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/attic";>attic — deduplicating backup program</a></li> <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/colobot";>colobot — educational programming strategy game</a></li> <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/diskscan";>diskscan — scan HDD/SSD for bad or near failure sectors</a></li> <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/handbrake";>handbrake — versatile DVD ripper and video transcoder (GTK GUI)</a></li> <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/higan";>higan — accurate Nintendo multi-system emulator</a></li> <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/mk-configure";>mk-configure — lightweight replacement for GNU autotools</a></li> <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/zita-bls1";>zita-bls1 — binaural stereo signals converter</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/2013/11/msg00445.html"; orphaned="534" rfa="148" /> <toc-add-entry name="continuedpn">Want to continue reading DPN?</toc-add-entry> <continue-dpn /> #use wml::debian::projectnews::footer editor=" Cédric Boutillier, Ying-Chun Liu, Carl J Mannino, Steve McIntyre, Justin B Rye" # Translators may also add a translator="foo, bar, baz" to the previous line
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