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Friday, June 19th, 2015
| Time |
Event |
| 2:45p |
Friday's security updates Debian has updated cinder
(file disclosure) and drupal7 (multiple vulnerabilities).
Fedora has updated mbedtls
(F21: multiple vulnerabilities) and python-django14 (F20: cross-site scripting).
Mageia has updated cups
(M4: multiple vulnerabilities), ffmpeg
(M4: multiple vulnerabilities), openssl (M4: multiple vulnerabilities), and redis (M4: code execution).
SUSE has updated IBM Java (SLES10 SP4; SLE11: multiple vulnerabilities). | | 9:21p |
Bacon: Rebasing Ubuntu on Android? At his blog, former Ubuntu Community Manager Jono Bacon speculates
on whether or not the Ubuntu Phone project should rebase its software
stack on Android. Bacon prefaces the post with a note that it is
"designed purely for some intellectual fun and discussion. I am
not proposing we actually do this, nor advocating for this."
The central argument is that new mobile platforms invariably expend
hundreds of thousands of dollars attracting well-known app vendors to
the new stack. Supporting Android apps would let Ubuntu focus efforts
on the user interface, scopes, and other components. "I know
there has been a reluctance to support Android apps on Ubuntu as it
devalues the Ubuntu app ecosystem and people would just use Android
apps, but I honestly think some kind of middle-ground is needed to get
into the game, otherwise I worry we won’t even make it to the subs
bench no matter how awesome our technology is." Note that,
whatever one makes of the idea, Bacon is speaking only about the
Ubuntu Phone stack; the post does touch on how such a rebase would
interfere with Ubuntu's plans for a converged software stack. | | 9:24p |
Announcing the Code Climate platform Code Climate has announcedthe open-source release of its static-analysis platform. " We’re
releasing the static analysis engines that power the new Code Climate
Platform, and going forward, all of our static analysis code will be
published under Open Source licenses. Code Climate has always provided free
analysis to Open Source projects, and this continues to deepen our
commitment to, and participation in, the OSS community." | | 9:40p |
Poettering: The new sd-bus API of systemd Lennart Poettering writes
about the sd-bus library with substantial digressions into how D-Bus works in general. " We believe the result of our work delivers our goals quite nicely:
the library is fun to use, supports kdbus and sockets as back-end, is
relatively minimal, and the performance is substantially better than both
libdbus and GDBus." | | 9:42p |
[$] Rebasing openSUSE The openSUSE project has often struggled with questions of identity: what is the distribution trying to be, and for who? From the 2010 strategy search through to the 2013 development-model discussions and the 2014 release-management questions, openSUSE's developers have tried to find a development approach that is both sustainable and appealing to a wider audience. In 2015, it appears that a partial success has been achieved, but that success is driving a new and controversial change. |
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