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Monday, February 4th, 2019
| Time |
Event |
| 3:38p |
Kernel prepatch 5.0-rc5 The 5.0-rc5 kernel prepatch is out. " Nothing looks particularly worrisome, so assuming the trend holds, we
look to be on track for a fairly normal release cycle despite the
early hiccups due to the holidays." | | 3:59p |
Security updates for Monday
Security updates have been issued by CentOS (bind, firefox, GNOME, kernel, systemd, and thunderbird), Debian (debian-security-support, drupal7, libreoffice, libvncserver, phpmyadmin, and rssh), Fedora (binutils and firefox), Mageia (firefox and netatalk), openSUSE (avahi and python-paramiko), Red Hat (Red Hat Gluster Storage Web Administration), Slackware (mariadb), and SUSE (java-11-openjdk, kernel, and python). | | 4:18p |
Results of the first Python Steering Council election The governance model adopted by the Python community after Guido van Rossum stepped down included the election of a Steering Council. The first such election has just concluded; the council will be made up of Barry Warsaw, Brett Cannon, Carol Willing, Guido van Rossum, and Nick Coghlan. | | 9:04p |
[$] Python elects a steering council
After a two-week voting period, which followed a two-week nomination
window, Python now has its governance
back in place—with a familiar name in the mix.
As specified in PEP 13 ("Python
Language Governance"), five nominees were elected to the steering council,
which will govern the language moving forward.
It may come as a surprise to some that Guido van
Rossum, whose resignation as benevolent dictator for life (BDFL)
led to the need for a
new governance model and, ultimately, to
the vote for a
council, was one of the 17 candidates. It is perhaps much
less surprising that he was elected
to share the duties he once wielded
solo. |
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