FOSS Activities in June 2026

3-minute read
debian • ubuntu • open-source
debian • ubuntu • monthly

Here’s my monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the FOSS world.

Debian

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

  • Leading the DebConf Bursary team along with PEB.
    • This took most of my Debian time this month but we’ve been able to wrap that work now.
    • Got back to all the tickets on Zammad, too.
  • Assisted a few folks in getting their patches submitted via Salsa.
  • 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:

  • Continued to push for infrastructure improvements:
    • Charming.
    • Artifact signing.
    • Reorganizing cdimage.
    • And so on.
  • Successfully released 26.10 Snapshot 2!
    • We landed a breaking change in the directory structure.
    • …whihc had consequences on the rsync, being run by the sysadmins.
      • The 30 GB rsync failed because of the load on the system and it resulted in things blowing up. Yay. Stress-testing the shit out of our infra. :)
      • We got it back under control in the next few days but oh wow, what a journey to get there.
  • Assisted a bunch of folks with my Archive Admin and Release team hats to:
    • Helped in archive opening tasks.
    • Promoting/demoting binaries to/from main.
    • Taking care of package removals and so on.
    • Reviewed the NEW queue.
  • Reviewed quite a lot of MPs, specs, and other people’s work.
  • Mentoring, coaching, and leading the Release Management team.

Debian (E)LTS

This month I have worked 15 hours on Debian Long Term Support (LTS) and on its sister Extended LTS project and did the following things:

Released Security Updates

Work in Progress

Other Activities

  • [LTS] Emilio pointed out that the gst-plugins-ugly1.0 binaries were still not fully released, so I ran dcut migrate to fully release them. The DLA had gone out earlier.

  • [ELTS] Did some more work on ruby-rack - a lot of new CVEs have opened up and, whilst I made some progress, Santiago let me know that ruby-rack is no longer supported and so it’ll be removed from the ela-needed list.

  • [E/LTS] Set up the security-tracker and a few other things on the new machine, and debugged the git repository size madness. Sent a summary here.

  • [E/LTS] Monitored discussions on mailing lists, IRC, and all the documentation updates.

  • [E/LTS] Attended the monthly LTS meeting on Jitsi. Meeting notes here.

Until next time.
:wq for today.