Search Results: "Alexandre Rossi"

31 May 2021

Chris Lamb: Free software activities in May 2021

Here's my monthly update covering what I have been doing in the free software world for May 2021 (previous month): Reproducible Builds The motivation behind the Reproducible Builds effort is to ensure no flaws have been introduced during this compilation process by promising identical results are always generated from a given source, thus allowing multiple third-parties to come to a consensus on whether a build was compromised. I also made the following changes to diffoscope, including preparing and uploading versions 174, 175 and 176 to Debian: Debian Finally, I also made a sponsored upload of adminer (4.7.9-2) for Alexandre Rossi. Debian LTS This month I have worked 18 hours on Debian Long Term Support (LTS) and 12 hours on its sister Extended LTS project. You can find out more about the project via the following video:

28 February 2021

Chris Lamb: Free software activities in February 2021

Here is my monthly update covering what I have been doing in the free software world during February 2021 (previous month):

Reproducible Builds The motivation behind the Reproducible Builds effort is to ensure no flaws have been introduced during compilation process by promising identical results are always generated from a given source, therefore allowing multiple third-parties to come to a consensus on whether a build was compromised. The project is proud to be a member project of the Software Freedom Conservancy. Conservancy acts as a corporate umbrella allowing projects to operate as non-profit initiatives without managing their own corporate structure. If you like the work of the Conservancy or the Reproducible Builds project, please consider becoming an official supporter. This month, I: I also made the following changes to diffoscope, including preparing and uploading versions 167 and 168 to Debian:

Debian Uploads I also sponsored an upload of adminer (4.7.9-1) for Alexandre Rossi. Debian LTS This month I have worked 18 hours on Debian Long Term Support (LTS) and 12 hours on its sister Extended LTS project. You can find out more about the project via the following video:

31 December 2020

Chris Lamb: Free software activities in December 2020

Here is my monthly update covering what I have been doing in the free software world during December 2020 (previous month):

Reproducible Builds One of the original promises of open source software is that distributed peer review and transparency of process results in enhanced end-user security. However, whilst anyone may inspect the source code of free and open source software for malicious flaws, almost all software today is distributed as pre-compiled binaries. This allows nefarious third-parties to compromise systems by injecting malicious code into ostensibly secure software during the various compilation and distribution processes. The motivation behind the Reproducible Builds effort is to ensure no flaws have been introduced during this compilation process by promising identical results are always generated from a given source, thus allowing multiple third-parties to come to a consensus on whether a build was compromised. This month, I: I also made the following changes to diffoscope, our in-depth and content-aware diff utility that can locate and diagnose reproducibility issues, including releasing version 163:

Debian Uploads I also sponsored an upload of adminer (4.7.8-2) on behalf of Alexandre Rossi and performed two QA uploads of sendfile (2.1b.20080616-7 and 2.1b.20080616-8) to make the build the build reproducible (#776938) and to fix a number of other unrelated issues. Debian LTS This month I have worked 18 hours on Debian Long Term Support (LTS) and 12 hours on its sister Extended LTS project. You can find out more about the Debian LTS project via the following video:

29 February 2020

Chris Lamb: Free software activities in February 2020

Here is my monthly update covering what I have been doing in the free software world during February 2020 (previous month): For the Tails privacy-oriented operating system, I uploaded the following packages to Debian:
Reproducible builds One of the original promises of open source software is that distributed peer review and transparency of process results in enhanced end-user security. However, whilst anyone may inspect the source code of free and open source software for malicious flaws, almost all software today is distributed as pre-compiled binaries. This allows nefarious third-parties to compromise systems by injecting malicious code into ostensibly secure software during the various compilation and distribution processes. The motivation behind the Reproducible Builds effort is to provide the ability to demonstrate these binaries originated from a particular trusted source release: if identical results are generated from a given source in all circumstances, reproducible builds provides the means for multiple third-parties to reach a consensus on whether a build was compromised via distributed checksum validation or some other scheme. The initiative is proud to be a member project of the Software Freedom Conservancy, a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) charity focused on ethical technology and user freedom. Conservancy acts as a corporate umbrella allowing projects to operate as non-profit initiatives without managing their own corporate structure. If you like the work of the Conservancy or the Reproducible Builds project, please consider becoming an official supporter. This month, I: In our tooling, I also made the following changes to diffoscope, our in-depth and content-aware diff utility that can locate and diagnose reproducibility issues, including uploading version 137 to Debian:
Debian I submitted a Request for Package (RFP) bug for hsd, a blockchain-based top-level domain DNS protocol implementation that underpins Handshake and worked on some initial packaging. (#952472)
Debian LTS This month I have worked 18 hours on Debian Long Term Support (LTS) and 12 hours on its sister Extended LTS project. You can find out more about the project via the following video:
Uploads Finally, I made a non-maintainer upload of adminer (4.7.6-1) on behalf of Alexandre Rossi.

8 September 2007

Michal Čihař: First usage of lazygal

After searching for new gallery and investigating lazygal, I finally decided it's time to give it some real world usage. My current album from Japan is being processed by this damn fast tool. It needed a bit of hacking, but as the core was already there and Alexandre Rossi is quite cooperative upstream. I managed to implement almost everything I requested in original post. The only thing I'm still not completely happy with is the theme, but I hope I will improve it over time. From original requirements, I completely dropped links to full size images. There is simply no reason to put here crappy pictures which my only camera I currently have here (built in camera in Nokia 6234) produces. Also once I'll buy new camera (what will be most likely Pentax K10D), I probably won't upload huge 10Mpix images on web server as I don't think it would be good for anything else than wasting my bandwidth.