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[arch-dev-public] Call for Participation - Arch Conf 2020 Online
by Morten Linderud 18 Sep '20

18 Sep '20

Hello everyone! We are super excited to announce that the Arch Linux Conference 2020 is going to be held online on the 10th and 11th of October. The CFP has been published and everyone is free to submit talks and lightning talks from today until the 18th of September. If you have other ideas please do reach out! https://pretalx.com/arch-conf-online-2020/cfp # Pre-recorded talks All talks should be pre-recorded and sent to the team by the video submission deadline. You will be notified if the talk has been accepted shortly after the submission deadline has passed. # Important Dates * Conference date: 10th - 11th of October * Submission deadline: 18th of September * Video submission deadline: 5th of October # Streaming Streaming details are going to be published through September as there is still some more planning required for this part :) # Contributing We are still going to hold regular meetings over mumble and general planning in #archlinux-conf @ freenode until the conference starts in October. If you want to get involved and help out please do reach out and join the meeting :) Cheers from the Conference Team!

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[arch-dev-public] Kanboard Deprecation
by Frederik Schwan 14 Sep '20

14 Sep '20

Hi people, as part of our ongoing unification of Arch services in order to ease operational overhead, DevOps would like to move the kanboard service to the GitLab instance [0]. GitLab has a comparable feature in the form of issue boards [1]. The current kanboard isn't getting used much and we'd like to focus our efforts. See below for an overview of the usage lately: Board Owner lowest "days in this column" Infrastructure Florian 513 Bug todos Eli -empty- Reproducible Arch Linux Bartłomiej 629 Archweb Jelle 489 dbscripts Eli 660 Security Team Jelle 445 Conf Jelle 377 Packaging David 393 General Bartłomiej 239 Docker Image Santiago 244 We are not interested in flat out deleting everything and realize that there might still be important information there somewhere. Please have a look at the boards and check if there's anything you know needs to be migrated. At a quick glance, many issues are simply out of date and superseded or already done. If necessary, please migrate the board to GitLab or feel free to create a DevOps ticket [2] so that we can handle the migration. We seek to finish the migration by October 31st. Cheers, Frederik [0] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/infrastructure/-/issues/16 [1] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/infrastructure/-/boards [2] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/infrastructure/-/issues

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[arch-dev-public] Away on vacation until 25th September
by Thore Bödecker 11 Sep '20

11 Sep '20

Hi, just wanted to give a quick notification that I will be mostly away from the digital world until 2020-09-25. I might sporadically check my mails or pop briefly into IRC, but not engage actively in other duties like packaging. Feel free to bump any of my packages in the mean time, just be advised that both the consul and the ceph package do need some work again and might not even rebuild in their current version against our current repo. I just haven't had time to deal with that yet. Cheers, Thore -- Thore "foxxx0" Bödecker GPG ID: 0xEB763B4E9DB887A6 GPG FP: 051E AD6A 6155 389D 69DA 02E5 EB76 3B4E 9DB8 87A6

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[arch-dev-public] News draft: Bug wrangling day
by Frederik Schwan 06 Sep '20

06 Sep '20

Hi people, given the large amount of open bugs, I'd like to invite all users to help out with an official announcement. ----> Kill Arch Bugs: Help us on the 13th of September! We would like to hold a bug wrangling day on the 13th of September to reduce the large amount of open tickets. If you cannot take part in the bug wrangling day, then feel free to help us any time before that event. How? Please review all bugs that were reported by you and check if they are still valid. Please request a task closure on the bug tracker if the task may be closed. Otherwise please provide further information so that we can continue to work on the bug. We cannot fix bugs without your feedback. Questions? Join us at #archlinux-bugs channel on irc.freenode.net during 13th of September. As we life in different timezones not all devs and bug wranglers will be available at the same time, but feel free to report your issues to any dev available. Also please check your mailboxes that may contain notifications about comments made on your tickets <---- Parts of this news are derived from this post: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=31568 Cheers, Frederik

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[arch-dev-public] Bug tracker migration
by Frederik Schwan 30 Aug '20

30 Aug '20

Hi folks, I'd like to migrate the beloved Flyspray bug tracker to our new Gitlab instance. TLDR: - Bug wrangling day on the 13th of September; see 1) - Flyspray will be read-only after we rewrite the Archweb URLs - new bug tracker -> Gitlab 1) I'd like to hold a bug wrangling day, where our goal is to close as many bugs as possible. Any TU, Reporter and bug wrangler is invited to help out :) Unfortunately I can't offer any cookies that day :/ Rules: a) Bug with no reply for at least 6 months which has been submitted for a different version than the current one in the repos shall be closed with a message that a reopen request may be filled if this issue is still present. b) Any infrastructure ticket shall not be touched. This will be handled by $DevOps. 2) Afterwards we will point the bug tracker links in the Archweb to the new location and opening new tickets in Flyspray will be disabled. The project structure of the future Gitlab bug tracker will be discussed in a seperate mail and is not part of this mail(thread). 3) When enough tickets are closed or when $DevOps is tired enough of Flyspray, we'll migrate the rest of the tickets to Gitlab. We seek to keep Flyspray as a static homepage to allow the reference in the new bug tracker to old tickets and to keep the integrity of search engine results. Please make sure you all have a working account at our Gitlab instance. Cheers, Frederik

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[arch-dev-public] [RFC] Removing maintainer/contributor lines from PKGBUILDs
by Evangelos Foutras 25 Aug '20

25 Aug '20

I am not sure these serve any purpose. The maintainer line duplicates information available from the archweb or aur interfaces and could also be outdated. The contributor lines are mostly redundant with svn or git history, can take up several lines in the PKGBUILD and can become irrelevant after significant refactoring. What are your thoughts on dropping all these seemingly unnecessary lines from our official PKGBUILDs? Anyone feel strongly about keeping them (and why)?

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[arch-dev-public] Ciao
by Gaetan Bisson 20 Aug '20

20 Aug '20

Dear all, I've joined the Arch team in 2010 and spent a decade as a developer; it's been a great privilege to be a part of such an awesome community and also a lot of fun. However I felt the ten-year mark was a good opportunity for me to move on since I recognize the majority's views on the future of the distro have of late steadily been diverging from mine. And thus I hereby resign my position of Arch Linux Developer. All the best in your future endeavors! -- Gaetan

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[arch-dev-public] Holidays 2020-08-20 -- 2020-09-01
by David Runge 18 Aug '20

18 Aug '20

Hey all, I will be on holidays between 2020-08-20 and 2020-09-01 and very likely not be able to do packaging. Feel free to bump my packages. Note, that audacity would require a lot of work.. so only get on to that one if you're really up for it :-P Juce is another such candidate (but also because it currently makes the build for iempluginsuite fail). Best, David -- https://sleepmap.de

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[arch-dev-public] Mail server migration
by Giancarlo Razzolini 14 Aug '20

14 Aug '20

Hi Guys, Continuing with our migration efforts, we're now going to migrate the last running service on orion which is the mail server and all the software related to it. This is also getting migrated to a VPS [0]. We plan on making this as transparent as possible, so all the mailboxes, sieve filters and .forward files and anything else mail related will be copied from the home directions each user has on orion. We also plan on syncing /etc/shadow, to make sure all the passwords remain the same. However, the SSH Host keys will also be changed on the process. These keys will be documented beforehand on [1] as well as sent to this thread. SSH access will only be used for password changing and for putting/editing .forward files and/or sieve filters. Eventually the mail server will not support SSH access anymore, as we plan on transitioning authentication to keycloak in the future. But for foreseeable future, things won't change. Also, with this change, since mail is the last thing on orion, that machine will be decommissioned. So, please, everyone make sure that you don't have anything on your home directory that you wish to keep. We'll take a backup, but the only things getting moved to the new mail server are mail related files. There's no date yet for both the migration and for orion's decommissioning, but the mail migration will happen next week, and orion's decommission following that and provided the mail migration is successful. There will be a period of time where the pop and imap services will be unavailable, as well as sending emails. We plan on not disrupting the incoming of emails, and I'll sync the queue between the machines, to avoid any lost email, while the DNS records are changing. Regards, Giancarlo Razzolini [0] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/infrastructure/-/issues/92 [1] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/infrastructure/-/blob/master/docs/ss…

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[arch-dev-public] Anatol is inactive due to situation in Belarus
by Anatol Pomozov 14 Aug '20

14 Aug '20

Hello folks My name is Anatol Pomozov and I am an Arch Linux developer. I've been quiet for a couple of weeks now and will probably stay away from my Arch Linux/pacman (+bcc:pacman-dev@) duties for a bit more. Please feel free to take care of my packages if it's needed. The reason for this decision is a situation that happens in my home country. I am a belarusian. My home country, my beautiful Belarus is essentially taken hostage by a usurpator Lukashenko. He has been "ruling" the country for 26 years already. Lukashenko cancelled results of the last election (where he took ~10% of votes) and declared that he is going to stay in power for another 5 years. All his political opponents were put into a jail or hiding from him abroad. Anyone who demands fair elections is terrorized by his personal army. Many people are tortured in jail. You can see what happens in Belarus in these clips https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG3D6881AXY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6tCGnM0xiQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0VLjQvCxcc I live abroad and I am safe now. But my parents and relatives are in Belarus and they were essentially taken hostage by the Lukashenko's government. The last few weeks were stressful for me and I want to focus on my extended family as much as possible. I understand that Arch maillist might not be the place for political statements but this is something personal and something important for me. There is no place for such violence and there is no place for dictators in Europe of the 21st century. Please support Belarusian people in their fight against the usurpator. Talk to your governor/mayor/deputy/..., ask them to contact Belarusian government to stop the violence. Talk to the press, explain to them what is going on in Belarus right now. Anything that brings peace to Belarus will be helpful. Thank you. Жыве Беларусь!

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