Free Software Efforts (2017W40)

Here’s my weekly report for week 40 of 2017. In this week I have looked at censorship in Catalonia and had my “deleted” Facebook account hacked (which made HN front page). I’ve also been thinking about DRM on the web.

Debian

I have prepared and uploaded fixes for the measurement-kit and hamradio-maintguide packages.

I have also sponsored uploads for gnustep-base (to experimental) and chkservice.

I have given DM upload privileges to Eric Heintzmann for the gnustep-base package as he has shown to care for the GNUstep packages well. In the near future, I think we’re looking at a transition for gnustep-{base,back,gui} as these packages all have updates.

Bugs filed: #877680

Bugs closed (fixed/wontfix): #872202, #877466, #877468

Tor Project

This week I have participated in a discussion around renaming the “Operations” section of the Metrics website.

I have also filed a new ticket on Atlas, which I am planning to implement, to link to the new relay lifecycle post on the Tor Project blog if a relay is less than a week old to help new relay operators understand the bandwidth usage they’ll be seeing.

Finally, I’ve been hacking on a Twitter bot to tweet factoids about the public Tor network. I’ve detailed this in a separate blog post.

Bugs closed (fixed/wontfix): #23683

Sustainability

I believe it is important to be clear not only about the work I have already completed but also about the sustainability of this work into the future. I plan to include a short report on the current sustainability of my work in each weekly report.

I have not had any free software related expenses this week. The current funds I have available for equipment, travel and other free software expenses remains £60.52. I do not believe that any hardware I rely on is looking at imminent failure.

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