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Wednesday, March 4th, 2020
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Event |
| 1:15a |
[$] Python time-zone handling Handling time zones is a pretty messy affair overall, but language runtimes may have even bigger problems. As a recent discussion on the Python discussion forum shows, there are considerations beyond those that an operating system or distribution needs to handle. Adding support for the IANA time zone
database to the Python standard library, which would allow using names like "America/Mazatlan" to designate time zones, is more complicated than one might think—especially for a language trying to support multiple platforms. | | 3:30p |
Security updates for Wednesday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (libzypp), Fedora (opensmtpd and thunderbird), openSUSE (nodejs8), Red Hat (http-parser, kpatch-patch, and xerces-c), SUSE (cloud-init, compat-openssl098, kernel, postgresql96, python, and yast2-rmt), and Ubuntu (python-django and rake). | | 9:50p |
Hartman: Opposite of a Platform for DPL 2020
Sam Hartman has announced that he will not run for a second term as Debian
Project Leader at this time. "TL;DR: Overall, being DPL has been
incredibly rewarding. I have enjoyed working with you all, and have
enjoyed the opportunity to contribute to the Debian Project. I hope to be
DPL again some year, but 2020 is the wrong year for me and for the project.
So I will not nominate myself this year, but hope to do so some future
year." | | 10:44p |
[$] The costs of continuous integration By most accounts, the freedesktop.org (fd.o) GitLab instance has been a roaring success; lots of projects are using it, including Mesa, Linux kernel graphics drivers, NetworkManager, PipeWire, and many others. In addition, a great deal of continuous-integration (CI) testing is being done on a variety of projects under the fd.o umbrella. That success has come at a price, however. A recent message from the X.Org Foundation, which merged with fd.o in 2019, has made it clear that the current situation is untenable from a financial perspective. Given its current resources, X.Org cannot continue covering those costs beyond another few months. |
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