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Wednesday, October 24th, 2018
| Time |
Event |
| 12:37a |
[$] Making stable kernels more stable
Improving the quality of stable kernel releases is a perennial subject at
the Kernel and Maintainers Summit events, and this year was no exception.
This session, led by Fedora kernel maintainer Laura Abbott, discussed a
range of ideas but found no
silver bullets. There is, it seems, not much that can be done to create
better stable kernels except to perform more and better testing. | | 2:41p |
Security updates for Wednesday
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (hesiod, lighttpd, and opencc), openSUSE (apache-pdfbox, net-snmp, pam_pkcs11, rpm, tiff, udisks2, and wireshark), SUSE (dhcp, ghostscript-library, ImageMagick, libraw, net-snmp, ntp, postgresql96, rust, tiff, xen, and zziplib), and Ubuntu (mysql-5.5, mysql-5.7). | | 5:22p |
[$] Replacement of deprecated kernel APIs
The kernel community tries to never change the user-space API in ways that
will break applications, but it explicitly allows any internal API to be
changed at any time if a solid technical reason to do so exists. But that
doesn't mean that such changes are easy to do. At the 2018 Kernel
Maintainers Summit, Kees Cook led a discussion on the challenges he has
encountered when trying to effect large-scale API changes and what might be
done to make such changes go more smoothly. | | 6:19p |
[$] Picking a governance model for Python
The Python language project has been officially "leaderless" since the
mid-July announcement that Guido van Rossum
was stepping down. He is, of course, the founder of the language and had
served for more than two decades as its Benevolent Dictator for Life
(BDFL). But he did not appoint a successor and left it up to the project's core developers to
come up with a new governance structure. In the three months since, a
great deal of work has gone into that effort, which has to bootstrap itself
since there was not even any mechanism to choose how to select a new
governance model. |
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