FOSS Activites in March 2022

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

Debian

This was my 39th month of actively contributing to Debian. I became a DM in late March 2019 and a DD on Christmas ‘19! \o/

I recovered this month and cleared up a bunch of my backlog. So a good month, that way.

I didn’t do any uploads this month but I still did the following this month:

Other $things:

  • Volunteering for DC22 Content team.
  • Volunteering for DC22 Bursary team.
  • Being a DC22 Bursary lead along w/ Paulo.
  • Being an AM for Arun Kumar, process #1024.
  • Mentoring for newcomers.
  • Moderation of -project mailing list.

Ubuntu

This was my 14th month of actively contributing to Ubuntu. Now that I joined Canonical to work on Ubuntu full-time, there’s a bunch of things I do! \o/

I mostly worked on different things, I guess.

I was too lazy to maintain a list of things I worked on so there’s no concrete list atm. Maybe I’ll get back to this section later or will start to list stuff from the fall, as I was doing before. :D

Debian (E)LTS

Debian Long Term Support (LTS) is a project to extend the lifetime of all Debian stable releases to (at least) 5 years. Debian LTS is not handled by the Debian security team, but by a separate group of volunteers and companies interested in making it a success.

And Debian Extended LTS (ELTS) is its sister project, extending support to the Jessie release (+2 years after LTS support).

This was my thirtieth month as a Debian LTS and nineteenth month as a Debian ELTS paid contributor.
I worked for 57.75 out of 59.50 hours for LTS and 42.25 out of 60.00 hours for ELTS.

LTS CVE Fixes and Announcements:

ELTS CVE Fixes and Announcements:

  • Issued ELA 578-1, fixing CVE-2021-0561, for flac.
    For Debian 8 jessie, these problems have been fixed in version 1.3.0-3+deb8u2.
  • Issued ELA 582-1, fixing some vulnerabilties which haven’t a CVE ID assigned yet, for wordpress.
    For Debian 8 jessie, these problems have been fixed in version 4.1.35+dfsg-0+deb8u1.
  • Worked on readying up python2.7 update. But the tests fails with a segfault but only on jessie. The very same works fine on stretch.
    Been trying to workthru the tests but it looks that it’s a test-only thing. But I’ll double-check to be sure. :)
  • Looked into src:bind9 for Markus. Also, coordinated the same w/ the Ubuntu security team (ESM one). Reported the findings that I and Marc discussed.
    Markus seemed to workthru a way out in the end. \o/
  • Working on src:tiff and src:beep to fix the issues, waiting for more issues to be reported for src:tiff and src:beep is a bit of a PITA, though. :)

Other (E)LTS Work:

Debian LTS Survey

I’ve spent 9 hours on the LTS survey on the following bits:
(but I’ll invoice them next month)

  • Organize questions. Re-order, fix, and add things wherever needed.
  • Finally set the whole thing up.
  • Did a couple of dry-runs.
  • Drafted the mail to be sent.

Until next time.
:wq for today.