Foundations Team Updates - Thursday 2024/04/04

[adrien]

armhf Y2038 support (a.k.a armhf 64-bit time_t)

• nothing this week \o/

xz-utils

• preparing the design of t-shirts which read “I talked to Jia Tan”
• following everything
• looking after #tukaani on IRC (which I founded when libera.chat was born)
• closed tickets related to pulling the backdoored versions: #2055422 and #2059417
• lots of initial concerns but overall surprised to see how everyone remained civil

Distro

• Working on the libtracefs MIR (#205192)

MIsc

• Day off
• Updates to my rewritten excuses page:
  • unbreak stuff after attempting to use a minimal CSS framework (pico.css; it looked good but the current page is too complex/weird)
  • add by-team filtering of packages
  • fixed spurious suppression of “other” reasons from britney such as missing binaries
• Created next week’s report: Foundations Team Updates - Thursday 2024/04/11
• Backlog grooming and roadmap planning