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FOSS Activities in June 2026

Here’s my monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the FOSS world. Debian Whilst I didn’t get a chance to do much, here are still a few things that I worked on: Leading the DebConf Bursary team along with PEB. This took most of my Debian time this month but we’ve been able to wrap that work now. Got back to all the tickets on Zammad, too. Assisted a few…

FOSS Activities in May 2026

Here’s my monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the FOSS world. Debian Whilst I didn’t get a chance to do much, here are still a few things that I worked on: Leading the DebConf Bursary team along with PEB. This took most of my Debian time this month and I think it’ll be the same next month, too. Got back to all the tickets on Zammad. Assisted a few…

FOSS Activities in April 2026

Here’s my monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the FOSS world. Debian Whilst I didn’t get a chance to do much, here are still a few things that I worked on: Leading the DebConf Bursary team along with PEB. This took most of my Debian time this month and I think it’ll be the same next month, too. Assisted a few folks in getting their patches submitted…

FOSS Activities in March 2026

Here’s my monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the FOSS world. Debian Whilst I didn’t get a chance to do much, here are still a few things that I worked on: A quick exchange with Xavier about node-lodash fixes for stable releases. Uploaded ruby-rack to CVE-2026-25500 & CVE-2026-22860 to sid, trixie, and bookworm. Started to work on the DebConf Bursary team…

FOSS Activities in February 2026

Here’s my monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the FOSS world. Debian Whilst I didn’t get a chance to do much, here are still a few things that I worked on: Uploaded node-lodash/4.17.21+dfsg+~cs8.31.198.20210220-10 to fix CVE-2025-13465 in unstable. Pinged Xavier and Praveen to see how they feel about the backport for the stable releases. Assisted a few…

FOSS Activities in January 2026

Here’s my monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the FOSS world. Debian Whilst I didn’t get a chance to do much, here are still a few things that I worked on: A few discussions with the new DFSG team, et al. Assisted a few folks in getting their patches submitted via Salsa. Reviewing pyenv MR for Ujjwal. Mentoring for newcomers. Moderation of -project mailing…

FOSS Activities in December 2025

Here’s my monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the FOSS world. Debian Whilst I didn’t get a chance to do much, here are still a few things that I worked on: Prepared security update for wordpress for trixie and bookworm. A few discussions with the new DFSG team, et al. Assisted a few folks in getting their patches submitted via Salsa. Mentoring for…

FOSS Activities in November 2025

Here’s my monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the FOSS world. Debian Whilst I didn’t get a chance to do much, here are still a few things that I worked on: Did a few sessions with the new DFSG team to help kickstart things, et al. Assisted a few folks in getting their patches submitted via Salsa. Mentoring for newcomers. Moderation of -project mailing list.…

FOSS Activities in October 2025

Here’s my monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the F/L/OSS world. Debian Whilst I didn’t get a chance to do much, here’s still a few things that I worked on: Uploaded ruby-rack, 3.1.18-1, to fix a bunch of CVEs. Asssited a few folks in getting their patches submitted via Salsa. Mentoring for newcomers. Moderation of -project mailing list. Ubuntu I…

FOSS Activities in September 2025

Here’s my monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the F/L/OSS world. Debian Whilst I didn’t get a chance to do much, here’s still a few things that I worked on: Helped sponsor a patch for net-tools for Helge. https://salsa.debian.org/debian/net-tools/-/merge_requests/5 . Asssited Anshul in his interest to do a Go 1.25 transition. Mentoring for newcomers.…

FOSS Activities in August 2025

Here’s my monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the F/L/OSS world. Debian Debian 13 was released! Woot! Whilst I didn’t get a chance to do much, here’s still a few things that I worked on: Helped Anshul with Golang 1.25 packaging and upload. Assisted Anshul in fixing Golang bugs in the stable release via a -pu. Mentoring for newcomers. Moderation of…

FOSS Activities in July 2025

Here’s my 70th monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the F/L/OSS world. Debian This was my 79th month of actively contributing to Debian . I became a DM in late March 2019 and a DD on Christmas ‘19! \o/ Debian was in freeze throughout so whilst I didn’t do many uploads, there’s a bunch of other things I did: Attended DebConf25 in Brest, France.…

FOSS Activities in May 2025

Here’s my 68th monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the F/L/OSS world. Debian This was my 77th month of actively contributing to Debian . I became a DM in late March 2019 and a DD on Christmas ‘19! \o/ This month I’ve just been sort of MIA, mostly because of a combination of the Canonical engineering sprints in Frankfurt, a bit of vacation in Italy,…

FOSS Activities in April 2025

Here’s my 67th monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the F/L/OSS world. Debian This was my 76th month of actively contributing to Debian . I became a DM in late March 2019 and a DD on Christmas ‘19! \o/ There’s a bunch of things I do, both, technical and non-technical. Here’s what I did: Updating Matomo to v5.3.1. Lots of bursary stuff for DC25.…

FOSS Activities in March 2025

Here’s my 66th monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the F/L/OSS world. Debian This was my 75th month of actively contributing to Debian . I became a DM in late March 2019 and a DD on Christmas ‘19! \o/ There’s a bunch of things I do, both, technical and non-technical. Here’s what I did: Updating Rails to v7.2.2.1 for Trixie. Updating Redmine to…

FOSS Activities in April 2024

Here’s my 55th monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the F/L/OSS world. Debian This was my 64th month of actively contributing to Debian . I became a DM in late March 2019 and a DD on Christmas ‘19! \o/ There’s a bunch of things I do, both, technical and non-technical. Here’s what I did: Reviewed MR !18 for DC24 website for Stefano. Kickstarting…

FOSS Activities in March 2024

Here’s my (fifty-fourth) monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the F/L/OSS world. Debian This was my 63rd month of actively contributing to Debian . I became a DM in late March 2019 and a DD on Christmas ‘19! \o/ There’s a bunch of things I do, both, technical and non-technical. Here’s what I did: Reviewed and sponsored some Golang packages for…

FOSS Activities in February 2024

Here’s my (fifty-third) monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the F/L/OSS world. Debian This was my 62nd month of actively contributing to Debian . I became a DM in late March 2019 and a DD on Christmas ‘19! \o/ There’s a bunch of things I do, both, technical and non-technical. Here’s what I did: Reviewed pyparted MR and gave feedback on the…

FOSS Activities in January 2024

Here’s my (fifty-second) monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the F/L/OSS world. Debian This was my 61st month of actively contributing to Debian . I became a DM in late March 2019 and a DD on Christmas ‘19! \o/ There’s a bunch of things I do, both, technical and non-technical. Here’s what I did: Some sync up w/ DC24 team, gearing up for DC24…

FOSS Activities in December 2023

Here’s my (fifty-first) monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the F/L/OSS world. Debian This was my 60th month of actively contributing to Debian . I became a DM in late March 2019 and a DD on Christmas ‘19! \o/ There’s a bunch of things I do, both, technical and non-technical. Here’s what I did: Some sync up w/ DC24 team, gearing up for DC24…

FOSS Activities in November 2023

Here’s my (fiftieth) monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the F/L/OSS world. Debian This was my 59th month of actively contributing to Debian . I became a DM in late March 2019 and a DD on Christmas ‘19! \o/ There’s a bunch of things I do, both, technical and non-technical. Here’s what I did: Helped w/ /usr-merge (DEP 17) work and fixed 3…

FOSS Activities in October 2023

Here’s my (forty-ninth) monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the F/L/OSS world. Debian This was my 58th month of actively contributing to Debian . I became a DM in late March 2019 and a DD on Christmas ‘19! \o/ There’s a bunch of things I do, both, technical and non-technical. But I only did mostly DebConf stuff this month: Mentoring for newcomers.…

FOSS Activities in September 2023

Here’s my (forty-eighth) monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the F/L/OSS world. Debian This was my 57th month of actively contributing to Debian . I became a DM in late March 2019 and a DD on Christmas ‘19! \o/ There’s a bunch of things I do, both, technical and non-technical. But I only did mostly DebConf stuff this month: Mentoring for newcomers…

FOSS Activities in August 2023

Here’s my (forty-seventh) monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the F/L/OSS world. Debian This was my 56th month of actively contributing to Debian . I became a DM in late March 2019 and a DD on Christmas ‘19! \o/ There’s a bunch of things I do, both, technical and non-technical. Here are the things I did this month: Uploads pystaticconfiguration…

FOSS Activities in July 2023

Here’s my (forty-sixth) monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the F/L/OSS world. Debian This was my 55th month of actively contributing to Debian . I became a DM in late March 2019 and a DD on Christmas ‘19! \o/ There’s a bunch of things I do, both, technical and non-technical. Here are the things I did this month: Uploads redmine (5.0.4-7) - Add patch…

FOSS Activities in June 2023

Here’s my (forty-fifth) monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the F/L/OSS world. Debian This was my 54th month of actively contributing to Debian . I became a DM in late March 2019 and a DD on Christmas ‘19! \o/ There’s a bunch of things I do, both, technical and non-technical. Here are the things I did this month: Uploads ccextractor (0.94+ds1-2) - Fix…

FOSS Activities in May 2023

Here’s my (forty-fourth) monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the F/L/OSS world. Debian This was my 53rd month of actively contributing to Debian . I became a DM in late March 2019 and a DD on Christmas ‘19! \o/ There’s a bunch of things I do, both, technical and non-technical. Here are the things I did this month: Moderation of -project mailing list.…

FOSS Activities in April 2023

Here’s my (forty-third) monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the F/L/OSS world. Debian This was my 52nd month of actively contributing to Debian . I became a DM in late March 2019 and a DD on Christmas ‘19! \o/ There’s a bunch of things I do, both, technical and non-technical. Here are the things I did this month: Moderation of -project mailing list.…

FOSS Activities in March 2023

Here’s my (forty-second) monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the F/L/OSS world. Debian This was my 51st month of actively contributing to Debian . I became a DM in late March 2019 and a DD on Christmas ‘19! \o/ There’s a bunch of things I do, both, technical and non-technical. Here are the things I did this month: Looked for some Release team bits.…

FOSS Activities in February 2023

Here’s my (forty-first) monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the F/L/OSS world. Debian This was my 50th month of actively contributing to Debian . I became a DM in late March 2019 and a DD on Christmas ‘19! \o/ There’s a bunch of things I do, both, technical and non-technical. Here are the things I did this month: Uploads ruby-delayed-job…

FOSS Activities in January 2023

Here’s my (fortieth) monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the F/L/OSS world. Debian This was my 49th month of actively contributing to Debian . I became a DM in late March 2019 and a DD on Christmas ‘19! \o/ There’s a bunch of things I do, both, technical and non-technical. Here are the things I did this month: Uploads redmine (5.0.4-1) - Fixing bug…

FOSS Activities in December 2022

Here’s my (thirty-ninth) monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the F/L/OSS world. Debian This was my 48th month of actively contributing to Debian . I became a DM in late March 2019 and a DD on Christmas ‘19! \o/ There’s a bunch of things I do, both, technical and non-technical. Here are the things I did this month: Some DebConf work. Sponsoring stuff…

FOSS Activities in November 2022

Here’s my (thirty-eighth) monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the F/L/OSS world. Debian This was my 47th month of actively contributing to Debian . I became a DM in late March 2019 and a DD on Christmas ‘19! \o/ There’s a bunch of things I do, both, technical and non-technical. Here are the things I did this month: Debian Uploads tango (9.3.4+dfsg1-2)…

FOSS Activities in October 2022

Here’s my (thirty-seventh) monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the F/L/OSS world. Debian This was my 46th month of actively contributing to Debian . I became a DM in late March 2019 and a DD on Christmas ‘19! \o/ There’s a bunch of things I do, both, technical and non-technical. Here are the things I did this month: Debian Uploads ruby-espeak…

FOSS Activities in September 2022

Here’s my (thirty-sixth) monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the F/L/OSS world. Debian This was my 45th month of actively contributing to Debian . I became a DM in late March 2019 and a DD on Christmas ‘19! \o/ There’s a bunch of things I do, both, technical and non-technical. Here are the things I did this month: Debian Uploads rails…

FOSS Activities in August 2022

Here’s my (thirty-fifth) monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the F/L/OSS world. Debian This was my 44th month of actively contributing to Debian . I became a DM in late March 2019 and a DD on Christmas ‘19! \o/ There’s a bunch of things I do, both, technical and non-technical. Here are the things I did this month: Debian Uploads rails…

FOSS Activities in July 2022

Here’s my (thirty-fourth) monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the F/L/OSS world. Debian This was my 43rd month of actively contributing to Debian . I became a DM in late March 2019 and a DD on Christmas ‘19! \o/ There’s a bunch of things I did this month but mostly non-technical, now that DC22 is around the corner. Here are the things I did: Doing…

FOSS Activities in June 2022

Here’s my (thirty-third) monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the F/L/OSS world. Debian This was my 42nd month of actively contributing to Debian . I became a DM in late March 2019 and a DD on Christmas ‘19! \o/ There’s a bunch of things I did this month but mostly non-technical, now that DC22 is around the corner. Here are the things I did: Debian…

FOSS Activities in May 2022

Here’s my (thirty-second) monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the F/L/OSS world. Debian This was my 41st month of actively contributing to Debian . I became a DM in late March 2019 and a DD on Christmas ‘19! \o/ There’s a bunch of things I did this month but mostly non-technical, now that DC22 is around the corner. Here are the things I did: Debian…

FOSS Activities in April 2022

Here’s my (thirty-first) monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the F/L/OSS world. Debian This was my 40th month of actively contributing to Debian . I became a DM in late March 2019 and a DD on Christmas ‘19! \o/ There’s a bunch of things I did this month but mostly non-technical, now that DC22 is around the corner. Here are the things I did: Debian…

FOSS Activities in March 2022

Here’s my (thirtieth) monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the F/L/OSS world. Debian This was my 39th month of actively contributing to Debian . I became a DM in late March 2019 and a DD on Christmas ‘19! \o/ I recovered this month and cleared up a bunch of my backlog. So a good month, that way. I didn’t do any uploads this month but I still did the…

FOSS Activities in February 2022

Here’s my (twenty-ninth) monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the F/L/OSS world. Debian This was my 38th month of actively contributing to Debian . I became a DM in late March 2019 and a DD on Christmas ‘19! \o/ I had been sick this month, so most of the time I spent away from system, recovering, et al, and also went through the huge backlog that I had,…

FOSS Activities in January 2022

Here’s my (twenty-eighth) monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the F/L/OSS world. Debian This was my 37th month of actively contributing to Debian . I became a DM in late March 2019 and a DD on Christmas ‘19! \o/ Just churning through the backlog again this month. Ugh. Anyway, I did the following stuff in Debian: Uploads and bug fixes: ruby2.5…

FOSS Activities in December 2021

Here’s my (twenty-seventh) monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the F/L/OSS world. Debian This was my 36th month of actively contributing to Debian . I became a DM in late March 2019 and a DD on Christmas ‘19! \o/ Just churning through the backlog again this month. Ugh. Anyway, I did the following stuff in Debian: Uploads and bug fixes: ruby2.7 (2.7.5-1) -…

FOSS Activities in November 2021

Here’s my (twenty-sixth) monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the F/L/OSS world. Debian This was my 35th month of actively contributing to Debian . I became a DM in late March 2019 and a DD on Christmas ‘19! \o/ Just churning through the backlog again this month. Ugh. Anyway, I did the following stuff in Debian: Uploads and bug fixes: rails…

FOSS Activities in October 2021

Here’s my (twenty-fifth) monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the F/L/OSS world. Debian This was my 34th month of actively contributing to Debian . I became a DM in late March 2019 and a DD on Christmas ‘19! \o/ Just churning through the backlog again this month. Ugh. Anyway, I did the following stuff in Debian: Uploads and bug fixes: Hah, as a surprise, I…

FOSS Activities in September 2021

Here’s my (twenty-fourth) monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the F/L/OSS world. Debian This was my 33rd month of actively contributing to Debian . I became a DM in late March 2019 and a DD on Christmas ‘19! \o/ Just churning through the backlog this month. Ugh. Anyway, I did the following stuff in Debian: Uploads and bug fixes: Hah, as a surprise, I did no…

FOSS Activities in August 2021

Here’s my (twenty-third) monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the F/L/OSS world. Debian This was my 32nd month of actively contributing to Debian . I became a DM in late March 2019 and a DD on Christmas ‘19! \o/ Tough month but I mostly spent on it churning through the immense backlog. But that somewhat backfired and I have even more backlog than ever. :D…

FOSS Activities in July 2021

Here’s my (twenty-second) monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the F/L/OSS world. Debian This was my 31st month of actively contributing to Debian . I became a DM in late March 2019 and a DD on Christmas ‘19! \o/ I spent most of my free time on Clubhouse but still did everything I usually do (but did not go much beyond that, really). Anyway, I did the…

FOSS Activities in June 2021

Here’s my (twenty-first) monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the F/L/OSS world. Debian This was my 30th month of actively contributing to Debian . I became a DM in late March 2019 and a DD on Christmas ‘19! \o/ However, this wasn’t really a good month for mental health. And so apparently lesser work but still more than nothing, heh. :D As a side note,…