FOSS Activites in May 2025
Here’s my 68th monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the F/L/OSS world.
Debian
This was my 77th month of actively contributing to Debian. I became a DM in late March 2019 and a DD on Christmas ‘19! \o/
This month I’ve just been sort of MIA, mostly because of a combination of the Canonical engineering sprints in Frankfurt, a bit of vacation in Italy, and then being sick. So didn’t really get much done in Debian this month.
Ubuntu
This was my 53rd month of actively contributing to 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 (there’s so much and some of it might not be public…yet!), here’s a quick TL;DR of what I did:
- Prepared for the engineering sprints in Frankfurt.
- Delivered the Ubuntu knowledge sharing session during the sprints.
- Released the first monthly snapshot of Ubuntu 25.10.
- Archived the Focal release as it goes in the hands of the ESM team now.
- Got a recognition award for driving the Plucky Puffin release, nominated by Florent. \o/
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 buster, stretch, and jessie release (+2 years after LTS support).
This was my 68th month as a Debian LTS and 55th month as a Debian ELTS paid contributor.
Due to a combination of the Canonical engineering sprints in Frankfurt, a bit of vacation in Italy, and then being sick, I was barely able to do (E)LTS work. So this month, I worked for only 1.00 hours for LTS and 0 hours for ELTS.
I did the following things:
- [LTS] Attended the hourly LTS meeting on IRC. Summary here.
Until next time.:wq for today.