Raphaël Hertzog: My Free Software Activities in March 2015
My monthly report covers a large part of what I have been doing in the free software world. I write it for my donators (thanks to them!) but also for the wider Debian community because it can give ideas to newcomers and it s one of the best ways to find volunteers to work with me on projects that matter to me.
Debian LTS
This month I have been paid to work 15.25 hours on Debian LTS. In that time I did the following:
- CVE triage: I pushed 37 commits to the security tracker and contacted 20 maintainers about security issues affecting their packages.
- I started a small helper script based on the new JSON output of the security tracker (see #761859 for details). It s not ready yet but will make it easier to detect issues where the LTS team lags behind the security team, and other divergences like this and will speed up future CVE triage work (once done).
- I sent DLA-174-1 (tcpdump update fixing 3 CVE) after having received a debdiff from the Romain Fran oise.
- I prepared DLA-175-1 on gnupg, fixing 3 CVE.
- I prepared DLA-180-1 on gnutls26, fixing 3 CVE.
- Inner workings of an unusual team in Debian: the Long Term Support team: a generic presentation of the team and the project;
- Preparing for Wheezy LTS: a work session between the security team and the LTS team.
/etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts
file referencing the public SSH keys of other managed minions.
Tendenci.com. I was looking for a free software solution to handle membership management of a large NPO and I discovered Tendenci. It looked very interesting feature wise and written with a language/framework that I enjoy (Python/Django). But while it s free software, there s no community at all. The company that wrote it released it under a free software license and it really looks like that they did intend to build a community but they failed at it. When I looked their development forums were web-based and mostly empty with only initial discussion of the current developers and no reply from anybody there s also no mention of an IRC channel or a mailing list. I sent them a mail to see what kind of collaboration we could expect if we opted for their software and got no reply. A pity, really.
What free software membership management solution would you use when you have more than 10000 members to handle and when you want to use the underlying database to offer SSO authentication to multiple external services?
Thanks
See you next month for a new summary of my activities.
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