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Planet FSFE

Free Software Efforts (2017W39)

Here’s my weekly report for week 39 of 2017. In this week I have travelled to Berlin and caught up on some podcasts in doing so. I’ve also had some trouble with the RSS feeds on my blog but hopefully this is all fixed now.

Thanks to Martin Milbret I now have a replacement for my dead workstation, an HP Z600, and there will be a blog post about this new set up to come next week. Thanks also to Sýlvan and a number of others that made donations towards getting me up and running again. A breakdown of the donations and expenses can be found at the end of this post.

Breaking RSS Change in Hugo

My website and blog are managed by the static site generator Hugo. I’ve found this to be a stable and flexible system, but at the last upgrade a breaking change has occurred that broken the syndication of my blog on various planets.

At first I thought perhaps with my increased posting rate the planets were truncating my posts but this was not the case. The problem was in Hugo pull request #3129 where for some reason they have changed the RSS feed to contain only a “lead” instead of the full article.

Tor Metrics Team Meeting in Berlin

We had a meeting of the Metrics Team in Berlin yesterday to organise a roadmap for the next 12 months. This roadmap isn’t yet finalised as it will now be taken to the main Tor developers meeting in Montreal where perhaps there are things we thought were needed but aren’t, or things that we had forgotten. Still we have a pretty good draft and we were all quite happy with it.

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