New Debian Developers and Maintainers (September and October 2020)

On Mon 16 November 2020 with tags project
Written by Jean-Pierre Giraud

Translations: ca es fr pt sv vi zh-CN

The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months:

Benda XU (orv)
Joseph Nahmias (jello)
Marcos Fouces (marcos)
Hayashi Kentaro (kenhys)
James Valleroy (jvalleroy)
Helge Deller (deller)

The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months:

Ricardo Ribalda Delgado
Pierre Gruet
Henry-Nicolas Tourneur
Aloïs Micard
Jérôme Lebleu
Nis Martensen
Stephan Lachnit
Felix Salfelder
Aleksey Kravchenko
Étienne Mollier

Congratulations!

"Homeworld" will be the default theme for Debian 11

On Thu 12 November 2020 with tags bullseye artwork
Written by Jonathan Carter
Artwork by Juliette Taka

Translations: fr pt-BR

The theme "Homeworld" by Juliette Taka has been selected as default theme for Debian 11 'bullseye'. Juliette says that this theme has been inspired by the Bauhaus movement, an art style born in Germany in the 20th century.

After the Debian Desktop Team made the call for proposing themes, a total of eighteen choices have been submitted. The desktop artwork poll was open to the public, and we received 5,613 responses ranking the different choices, of which Homeworld has been ranked as the winner among them.

This is the third time that a submission by Juliette has won. Juliette is also the author of the lines theme that was used in Debian 8 and the softWaves theme that was used in Debian 9.

We'd like to thank all the designers that have participated and have submitted their excellent work in the form of wallpapers and artwork for Debian 11.

Congratulations, Juliette, and thank you very much for your contribution to Debian!

Debian donation for Peertube development

On Wed 21 October 2020 with tags debconf20 donation fundraising peertube
Written by Louis-Philippe Véronneau, Pouhiou, Laura Arjona Reina

Translations: fr pt-BR

The Debian project is happy to announce a donation of 10,000 € to help Framasoft reach the fourth stretch-goal of its Peertube v3 crowdfunding campaign -- Live Streaming.

This year's iteration of the Debian annual conference, DebConf20, had to be held online, and while being a resounding success, it made clear to the project our need to have a permanent live streaming infrastructure for small events held by local Debian groups. As such, Peertube, a FLOSS video hosting platform, seems to be the perfect solution for us.

We hope this unconventional gesture from the Debian project will help us make this year somewhat less terrible and give us, and thus humanity, better Free Software tooling to approach the future.

Debian thanks the commitment of numerous Debian donors and DebConf sponsors, particularly all those that contributed to DebConf20 online's success (volunteers, speakers and sponsors). Our project also thanks Framasoft and the PeerTube community for developing PeerTube as a free and decentralized video platform.

The Framasoft association warmly thanks the Debian Project for its contribution, from its own funds, towards making PeerTube happen.

This contribution has a twofold impact. Firstly, it's a strong sign of recognition from an international project - one of the pillars of the Free Software world - towards a small French association which offers tools to liberate users from the clutches of the web's giant monopolies. Secondly, it's a substantial amount of help in these difficult times, supporting the development of a tool which equally belongs to and is useful to everyone.

The strength of Debian's gesture proves, once again, that solidarity, mutual aid and collaboration are values which allow our communities to create tools to help us strive towards Utopia.

Salsa CI now includes i386 build support

On Fri 09 October 2020 with tags salsa i386
Written by Salsa CI Team

Translations: pt-BR

Salsa CI pipeline with i386 build support

Salsa CI aims at improving the Debian packaging lifecycle by delivering Continuous Integration fully compatible with Debian packaging. The main Salsa CI's project is the pipeline, that builds packages and run different tests after every git push to Salsa. The pipeline makes it possible to have a quick and early feedback about any issues the new changes may have created or solved, without the need to upload to the archive.

All of the pipeline jobs run on amd64 architecture, but the Salsa CI Team has recently added support to build packages also on i386 architecture. This work started during the Salsa CI Sprint at DebConf20 after the "Where is Salsa CI right now" talk, and required different changes at the core of pipeline to make it possible. For more details, this is the related merge request: https://salsa.debian.org/salsa-ci-team/pipeline/-/merge_requests/256

If you have any questions, you can contact the Salsa CI Team at the #salsaci channel on irc.oftc.net

New Debian Maintainers (July and August 2020)

On Sat 19 September 2020 with tags project
Written by Jean-Pierre Giraud

Translations: ca es fr pt sv vi zh-CN