The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months:

• Allison Randal (wendar)
• Carsten Schoenert (tijuca)
• Jeremy Bicha (jbicha)
• Luca Boccassi (bluca)
• Michael Hudson-Doyle (mwhudson)
• Elana Hashman (ehashman)

The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months:

• Ervin Heged s
• Tom Marble
• Lukas Schwaighofer
• Philippe Thierry

Congratulations!

Debian LTS November marked the 20th month I contributed to Debian LTS under the Freexian umbrella. I had 8 hours allocated which I used by:

• some rather quiet frontdesk days
• updating icedove to 45.5.1 resulting in DLA-752-1 fixing 7 CVEs
• looking whether Wheezy is affected by xsa-202, xsa-203, xsa-204 and handling the communication with credativ for these (update not yet released)
• Assessing cURL/libcURL CVE-2016-9586
• Assessing whether Wheezy's QEMU is affeced by security issues in 9pfs "proxy" and "handle" code
• Releasing DLA-776-1 for samba fixing CVE-2016-2125

Other Debian stuff

• Allow travis.debian.net to start services when running autopkgtests
• Usual bunch of libvirt and related uploads
• Uploaded git-buildpackage 0.8.8 and 0.8.9 to unstable (list of changes)

Some other Free Software activites

• Some fixes to libvirt's configure.ac for merged /usr
• Made some progress on getting the merkur board clones to life. The first stage bootloader and contiki are working now.
• Some ansible_spec fixes for roles in non default directories and robustness
• Due to excessive XMPP spam started a jabber-spam-blacklist
• Unbroke ansible-module-foreman
• Added support to configure Foreman settings via ansible-module-foreman and python-foreman
• Speed up VM removal with Foreman and VMware ESX
• Started foreman_serverspec a Foreman plugin to store serverspec reports in the Foreman. This is in a very early stage.

The seventh Debian Groupware Meeting was held in the LinuxHotel, Essen, Germany. We had one remote hacker from NYC which brings the number of attendants up to 9. This is a short summary of what happened during the weekend:

• We decided to abandon Iceowl (based on the standalone calendar sunbird) since Mozilla started to actively remove the code. Unfortunately this leaves us without a proper GUI stand alone calendar client with GSSAPI support.
• The icedove package got a major cleanup including the switch from CDBS to dh and the removal of the rebranding logic. This will hopefully allow us to better keep in sync with upstream. Carsten's git repo usually carries the most up to date version and a automated build of these version is in the works.
• The sogo connector extension for icedove got uploaded and tested including a wiki page
• The Groupware Page got updated
• We discussed the possibility of caldav/carddav servers in Debian using autopkgtest. This resulted in caldav-tester being packaged. It's currently waiting for an updated dependency before it can be uploaded.
• Based on that we added minimal autopkg tests to calypso. The later also gained GSSAPI support.
• OpenChange got updated in experimental (now moved to sid) and got a debug package. There were also some upstream improvements to ease provisioning.
• Dovecot's installation of the Sieve ext_programs was fixed
• SOPE and SOGo got updated to the latest upstream versions
• The SOGo-OpenChange plugin got build against the OpenChange package in experimental
• Giraffe (aka Zarafa packaging) made nice progress including the switch to free artwork and further renaming of the services. For Details on the current state check the wiki page.
• Due to the warm spring we had two nice barbecues for lunch.

Since we had a nice mix of first time Debian contributors, Debian Maintainers and Debian Developers we had lots of room for discussion and co-working which made this an exciting weekend.