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Thursday, April 29th, 2021
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Event |
| 12:16a |
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 29, 2021
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 29, 2021 is available. | | 1:29p |
Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (ceph, jetty, kernel, kernel-headers, kernel-tools, openvpn, and shim-unsigned-x64), Mageia (firefox and thunderbird), Oracle (nss and openldap), Red Hat (bind), Slackware (bind), SUSE (firefox, giflib, java-1_7_0-openjdk, libnettle, librsvg, thunderbird, and webkit2gtk3), and Ubuntu (bind9 and gst-plugins-good1.0). | | 2:39p |
[$] An update on the UMN affair On April 20, the world became aware of a
research program conducted out of the University of Minnesota (UMN) that involved submitting intentionally buggy patches for inclusion into the Linux kernel. Since then, a paper resulting from this work has been withdrawn, various letters have gone back and forth, and numerous patches from UMN have been audited. It's clearly time for an update on the situation. | | 4:25p |
Michlmayr: Growing open-source projects with a stable foundation Martin Michlmayr has put together a primer on managing open-source projects
through their growth cycle, specifically with the help of a support
foundation, and published the results as a
67-page PDF file.
Starting an open source project is easy. Running a successful
project, on the other hand, comes with a lot of work and responsibilities,
especially if the project attracts a large user base. While open source
projects come in all shapes and forms, most projects encounter a similar
set of growth issues throughout their life cycles. Because of this, various
organizations have arisen to help projects handle these problems; these
organizations are generally known as FOSS foundations. This primer covers
non-technical aspects that the majority of projects will have to consider
at some point. It also explains how FOSS foundations can help projects grow
and succeed.
He has also posted a
separate research report [PDF] on foundations that support open-source
projects. |
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