Re: Low-hanging fruits meeting -- March, 2014

[intrigeri <intrigeri@debian.org>]

Hi,

> So, our next low-hanging session will take place on #debian-perl on:
>   date -d 'Thu Mar 6 22:00:00 GMT 2014'

It did happen. Four of us participated in a way that I noticed, and
here's the report.

Hardening
=========

18 arch:any packages were worked on to add hardening build flags
=> 14 uploads

There are 94 candidates left. If you want to take over from this
point, here's a quick hack to detect these:

  for N in `grep 'Architecture: any' */debian/control | cut -d: -f1 | cut -d/ -f1`; do if ! grep cdbs $N/debian/control; then B=`cat $N/debian/compat`; if [ "x$B" = "x9" ]; then echo "ok: $N"; else echo "TODO: $N $B"; fi; fi; done | grep TODO

Leaf packages with RC bugs
==========================

Upstreams were pinged, bug reports were forwarded, and the list of
packages was refreshed, with "next action" dates and all:

https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianPerlGroup/OpenTasks#Release-critical_bugs

8 packages will be removed at the end of the month if we get no reply
from upstream. We should consider downgrading 3 packages, and it is
planned to ping upstream again for 3 other packages.

Launchpad
=========

Our Launchpad subscriptions for team-maintained packages were updated.
This required updating the script used to do so, "thanks" to the lack
of API stability of the underlying libraries.

"Ready for upload" backlog
==========================

Some packages from PET's "Ready for upload section" were uploaded.

Misc.
=====

A bug severity was upgraded to serious :/

Next session
============

We're trying to schedule a LHF session in April, see the dedicated
thread :)

Cheers,
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