FOSS Activites in August 2025

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Here’s my monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the F/L/OSS world.

Debian

Debian 13 was released! Woot!

Whilst I didn’t get a chance to do much, here’s still a few things that I worked on:

  • Helped Anshul with Golang 1.25 packaging and upload.
  • Assited Anshul in fixing Golang bugs in the stable release via a -pu.
  • Mentoring for newcomers.
  • Moderation of -project mailing list.

Ubuntu

I joined Canonical to work on Ubuntu full-time back in February 2021.

Whilst I can’t give a full, detailed list of things I did, here’s a quick TL;DR of what I did:

  • Released Questing snapshot 4! \o/
  • Prepared for 25.10 Beta, held weekly release syncs, et al.
  • Granted FFe and triaged a bunch of other bugs from both, Release team and Archive Admin POV. :)
  • Got a recognition award for helping Chlo with Google Guest Agent packages.
  • Preparing for the a round of internal review, 360s, and trying to not be sick. :)

Debian (E)LTS

This month I have worked 16.00 hours on Debian Long Term Support (LTS) and 4.50 hours on its sister Extended LTS project and did the following things:

  • [LTS] Prepared the LTS update for wordpress, bumping the package from 5.7.11 to 5.7.13.
    • Prepared an update for stable, too, and pinged Craig. Haven’t heard yet.
    • Got incredibly sick so will carry on the coordination work and release the updates to all the releases. Everything’s mostly ready and tested.
    • Gave Salvatore a quick heads up via IRC.
  • [E/LTS] Frontdesk duty from 28th July to 04th August.
  • [E/LTS] Helped Daniel Leidert in showing him around as he did his first frontdesk rota. Yay! 🎉
    • We paired on an hour long meets call and discussed various toolings and workflows.
    • Pair-reviewed a few CVEs together.
    • Also discussed how to triage newly supported packages for ELTS, too!
  • [LTS] Attended the monthly LTS meeting on Jitsi. Summary here.
    • [ELTS] Raised questions about installing debusine on Ubuntu.
      • Still trying to play around to get a bit more comfortable before starting to do actual uploads there.
  • [LTS] Helping a few folks - like assisting Lee to see if we have a reproducer for CVE-2025-27613 for git, et al.
  • [Stable] Been working on fixing 2 packages:
    • ruby-graphql: The Debian Security team asked to fix that via p-u so prepared a patch update.
    • ruby-saml: The update is finally ready but not tested yet - should be a quick one though.
    • Got incredibly sick and couldn’t move things forward but will take care of the work in the following month.

Until next time.
:wq for today.