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Wednesday, June 12th, 2019
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Event |
| 12:44p |
[$] Python and "dead" batteries
Python is, famously, a "batteries included" language; it comes with a rich
standard library right out of the box, which makes for a highly useful
starting point for everyone. But that does have some downsides as well. The
standard library modules are largely maintained by the CPython core
developers, which adds to their duties; the modules themselves are
subject to the CPython release schedule, which may be suboptimal. For
those reasons and others, there have been thoughts about retiring some
of the older modules; it is a topic that has come up several times over the
last year or so. | | 3:17p |
Security updates for Wednesday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (libgd2, mediawiki, otrs2, vlc, and zookeeper), Fedora (containernetworking-plugins, kernel, kernel-headers, nodejs-tough-cookie, podman, python-django, and python-urllib3), openSUSE (virtualbox), SUSE (gnome-shell, libcroco, and php7), and Ubuntu (dbus, Neovim, and vim). | | 9:56p |
[$] Paying (some) Debian developers In an offshoot of the Debian discussion we looked at last week, the Debian project has been discussing the idea of paying developers to work on the distribution. There is some history behind the idea, going back to the controversial Dunc-Tank initiative in 2006, but some think attitudes toward funding developers may have changed—or that a new approach might be better accepted. While it is playing out with regard to Debian right now, it is a topic that other projects have struggled with along the way—and surely will again. |
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