FOSS Activites in November 2020

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

Debian

This was my 23rd month of contributing to Debian. I became a DM in late March last year and a DD last Christmas! \o/

Apart from doing a bunch of activities like attending KubeCon + RubyConf (blog to follow!), et al and simultaneously giving my undergrad exams, I did (relatively) more work than I had really anticipated!

Here are the following things I did in Debian this month:

Uploads and bug fixes:

Other $things:

  • Attended the Debian Ruby team meeting.
  • Mentoring for newcomers.
  • FTP Trainee reviewing.
  • Moderation of -project mailing list.
  • Sponsored phpmyadmin for William and libexif for Hugh.

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 fourteenth month as a Debian LTS and fifth month as a Debian ELTS paid contributor.
I was assigned 22.75 hours for LTS and 45.00 hours for ELTS and worked on the following things:
(for ELTS, I worked for 5.25 hours last month, so I had to work for 39.75 (+1 extra) hours this month)
(also, I did over-work by 5.00 hours for LTS this month, but I’ll re-compensate it later to avoid so much fuss!)

LTS CVE Fixes and Announcements:

ELTS CVE Fixes and Announcements:

  • Issued ELA 306-1, fixing CVE-2020-25692, for openldap.
    For Debian 8 Jessie, these problems have been fixed in version 2.4.40+dfsg-1+deb8u7.
  • Issued ELA 310-1, fixing CVE-2020-0452, for libexif.
    For Debian 8 Jessie, these problems have been fixed in version 0.6.21-2+deb8u5.
  • Issued ELA 311-1, fixing CVE-2020-8037, for tcpdump.
    For Debian 8 Jessie, these problems have been fixed in version 4.9.3-1~deb8u2.
  • Issued ELA 312-1, backporting a new upstream release, 2020d, for tzdata.
    For Debian 8 Jessie, these problems have been fixed in version 2020d-0+deb8u1.
  • Issued ELA 313-1, fixing CVE-2020-15166, for zeromq3.
    For Debian 8 Jessie, these problems have been fixed in version 4.0.5+dfsg-2+deb8u3.
  • Prepared a debdiff for lxml (3.4.0-1+deb8u2) upload, which Emilio completed and rolled out later.

Other (E)LTS Work:

  • Front-desk duty from 26-10 until 01-10 and from 23-11 until 29-11 for both LTS and ELTS.
  • Triaged openldap, python-cryptography, motion, nvidia-cuda-toolkit, samba, lxml, highlight.js, imagemagick, mongodb, poppler, wordpress, raptor2, and blueman.
  • Marked CVE-2020-25659/python-cryptography as no-dsa for Stretch and Jessie.
  • Marked CVE-2020-25713/raptor2 as postponed for Stretch and Jessie.
  • Marked CVE-2020-27778/poppler as postponed for Stretch and Jessie.
  • Marked CVE-2020-5991/nvidia-cuda-toolkit as ignored for Stretch.
  • Marked CVE-2020-26566/motion as not-affected for Stretch.
  • Marked CVE-2020-26237/highlight.js as postponed for Jessie.
  • Auto EOL’ed libpam-tacplus, motion, blueman, openrc, webcit, wordpress, linux, nvidia-cuda-toolkit, spip, and wireshark for Jessie.
  • Attended the sevent LTS meeting. Logs here.
  • General discussion on LTS private and public mailing list.

Until next time.
:wq for today.