Re: Misc Developer News (#30)
On 8/18/12, Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> wrote:
> 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
>
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>
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