Foundations Team Updates - Thursday 2024/04/24

This covers a couple of weeks as I was (mostly) on holiday(ish) during release week

Plucky

Noble

General

  • Fixed up the plucky release notes
    • An erroneous update deleted a pile of revisions
    • Whipped up a hacky script to extract the revision and fix it, in the course of which discovered:
    • Discourse doesn’t appear to provide any means to retrieve (or even view) a particular revision outright, only a diff of revisions (formatted in such a way as to make extraction of the actual source painful)
    • I’m more convinced than ever, Discourse is entirely the wrong tool for release notes: it’s not a version control system (by any reasonable definition), it’s barely a wiki (if you squint), and it has none of the facilities you actually want in documentation (like a contents list)
  • Patched up a couple of PRs (#373, #376) for the Sphinx doc starter pack
  • Made a quick pass of the debcrafters list and made some alterations
  • Some IRC support
  • Take home tests
  • Pi meetings