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Monday, November 17th, 2014
| Time |
Event |
| 1:42p |
Kernel prepatch 3.18-rc5 Linus has released the 3.18-rc5 prepatch. " So we still have a few pending issues, but things look fairly
normal. We've still got a few weeks to go before final, and the more you
can test, the better off we'll be." | | 1:54p |
Fog Heen: Resigning as a Debian systemd maintainer Here are Tollef
Fog Heen's comments following his resignation as one of the systemd maintainers in Debian. " I've been a DD for almost 14 years, I should
be able to weather any storm, shouldn't I? It turns out that no, the
mountain does get worn down by the rain. It's not a single hurtful comment
here and there. There's a constant drum about this all being some sort of
conspiracy and there are sometimes flares where people wish people involved
in systemd would be run over by a bus or just accusations of
incompetence." | | 2:04p |
Russ Allbery leaves the Debian technical committee
Another resignation in the Debian camp: Russ Allbery has become the second
member of the project's technical committee to leave that committee.
"I think
project governance is a hard problem, and a worthwhile problem, and I hope
that someone with good ideas will step forward and work on that problem.
Debian is one of the largest free software projects, and one that faces a
large number of hard decisions. If we can do that work well, it would be a
valuable contribution to the broader community. But, right now, I don't
feel like I'm helping that process, and at times am making it
worse." | | 5:15p |
Security advisories for Monday Debian has updated libgcrypt11 (side-channel attack).
Fedora has updated kde-workspace (F20; F19:
privilege escalation), kernel (F19:
multiple vulnerabilities), and konversation (F20; F19: information disclosure).
Gentoo has updated wget (symlink attack).
Mageia has updated dbus (denial
of service), gnutls (code execution),
kernel (MG4; MG3: multiple vulnerabilities),
kernel-linus (MG4; MG3: multiple vulnerabilities),
kernel-tmb (MG4; MG3: multiple vulnerabilities), and kernel-vserver (MG4: multiple vulnerabilities).
Red Hat has updated mariadb
(RHEL7: multiple vulnerabilities), mariadb55-mariadb (RHSCL1: multiple
vulnerabilities), and mysql55-mysql (RHEL5; RHSCL1:
multiple vulnerabilities).
Scientific Linux has updated mysql55-mysql (SL5: multiple vulnerabilities).
Slackware has updated mozilla (multiple vulnerabilities). | | 5:44p |
Colin Watson resigns from Debian Technical Committee Colin Watson announced
his resignation from the Debian Technical Committee before Russ. " I
appreciate that the timing is such that this looks like a response to
Joey's mails, or perhaps to some other recent discussions. That isn't
the case. I've been doing a good deal of refactoring of my life
recently as a result of realising that I was burning
out, and right now it's important that I make an effort to spend my
Debian time on things I find relaxing rather than things I've been finding
stressful." (Thanks to Jeff Schroeder) | | 9:26p |
Linux for lettuce (Opensource.com) Opensource.com covers
the founding of the Open Source Seed Initiative (OSSI) and its continuing efforts to apply the concepts of open-source to plant breeding, in an increasingly patent encumbered space. " OSSI’s de facto leader is Jack Kloppenburg, a social scientist at
the University of Wisconsin who has been involved with issues concerning
plant genetic resources since the 1980s. He has published widely about the
concept behind OSSI, and his words are now echoed (even copied verbatim) by
public plant-breeding advocates in Germany, France, and India. As he
explains it, for most of human history, seeds have naturally been part of
the commons—those natural resources that are inherently public, like air or
sunshine. But with the advent of plant-related intellectual property and
the ownership it enables, this particular part of the commons has become a
resource to be mined for private gain. Thus the need for a protected
commons—open source seed. Inspired by open source software, OSSI’s idea is
to use “the master’s tools” of intellectual property, but in ways the
master never intended: to create and enforce an ethic of sharing." |
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