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Friday, November 1st, 2019

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    2:29p
    Security updates for Friday
    Security updates have been issued by CentOS (firefox, sudo, and thunderbird), Debian (libarchive and qtbase-opensource-src), Oracle (php), Red Hat (php, rh-php71-php, and rh-php72-php), Scientific Linux (firefox and php), and SUSE (kernel and samba).
    3:04p
    Python adopts a 12-month release cycle
    The long discussion on changing the Python
    project's release cadence has come to a conclusion: the project will now be
    releasing new versions on an annual basis. See PEP 602 for the
    details on how it is expected to work.
    4:59p
    [$] Next steps for kernel workflow improvement
    The kernel project's email-based development process is well established and has some strong defenders, but it is also showing its age. At the 2019 Kernel Maintainers Summit, it became clear that the kernel's processes are much in need of updating, and that the maintainers are beginning to understand that. It is one thing, though, to establish goals for an improved process; it is another to actually implement that process and convince developers to use it. At the 2019 Open Source Summit Europe, a group of 20 or so maintainers and developers met in the corner of a noisy exhibition hall to try to work out what some of the first steps in that direction might be.

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