The news are collected on http://wiki.debian.org/DeveloperNews Please contribute short news about your work/plans/subproject. In this issue: + Report from DSA Team Sprint + Using RAM for temporary files ? + Control Commands at submit@bugs.debian.org time + Debian Maintainer Dashboard + Declaring media (MIME) types with FreeDesktop menu entry files Report from DSA Team Sprint --------------------------- The Debian System Administrators met for a sprint in Oslo, Norway. Luca Filipozzi sent a report[1] about their activities at the sprint. The goals of the meeting were to develop a long term plan for Debian's infrastructure, to review the current set of machines we maintain and the services we provide, and to formulate some policies and procedures regarding account and group management. They aim to ensure that all Debian hardware is no more than 5 years old at any one time and hope to improve Debian donations and financial contributions in order to support that. They are moving towards using virtual machines for most services, consolidating our hosting locations and adding disaster mitigation through geographically-distributed service redundancy. They are starting a new Debian CDN for the distribution of static content such as the Debian website and Planet Debian. They have recently deployed a SSO solution for debian.org web based services. They will also be locking inactive shell accounts and adding easy ways to unlock them and monitoring the use of group memberships. -- Paul Wise [1] http://lists.debian.org/20120320012015.GA19474@emyr.net Using RAM for temporary files ? ------------------------------- As a result of ground work to use virtual filesystems for some directories containing temporary files, it is easier to mount /tmp on tmpfs. A long discussion about the default location (on RAM or on disk) took place on the debian-devel mailing list, which is summarised in a couple of posts and on LWN. - Final decision on defaulting to disk: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/06/msg00028.html - Summary from the person who started the thread: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/06/msg00311.html - Rebuttal: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/06/msg00318.html - Article on LWN: https://lwn.net/Articles/499410/ Control Commands at submit@bugs.debian.org time ----------------------------------------------- You can now use control commands at submit@bugs.debian.org time in the pseudo-headers. An example is the following: Package: foo Severity: normal Control: retitle -1 a bug, a bug, a buggy bug Control: tag -1 moreinfo help See pseudo header control commands[2], my blog post[3], and the DebConf12 lighting talk[4] for more information. -- Don Armstrong [2] http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting#control [3] http://www.donarmstrong.com/posts/control_at_submit/ [4] http://penta.debconf.org/dc12_schedule/events/900.en.html Debian Maintainer Dashboard --------------------------- Debian Maintainer Dashboard[5] aims at gathering various kind of information useful to maintainers and teams. In addition to the usual information about packages versions, bug counts, etc., it exposes a list of TODO items (RC bugs to fix, missing builds, testing migration issues, new upstream releases etc). DMD gets all the data from the Ultimate Debian Database. -- Lucas Nussbaum [5] http://udd.debian.org/dmd.cgi Declaring media (MIME) types with FreeDesktop menu entry files -------------------------------------------------------------- The package mime-support version 3.53~experimental1[6] was uploaded in experimental. It implements the parsing of .desktop files to generate mailcap entries, thanks to a patch[7] from Brian M. Carlson. This will allow to de-duplicate media type information in packages containing FreeDesktop menu entry files. -- Charles Plessy [6] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/mime-support.git;a=commitdiff;hp=3.52-1;h=3.53_experimental1 [7] http://bugs.debian.org/497779 -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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