On 8/18/12, Paul Wise <p...@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 sub...@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.ga19...@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 sub...@bugs.debian.org time > ----------------------------------------------- > > You can now use control commands at sub...@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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