Weekly Status Report: 2019-05-05

Hello all,

This has been a busy week for the Adélie Linux system. Multiple projects are now utilising CI systems for testing and quality assurance, and GRUB has been completely overhauled. More on these developments and more below…

Web site

Top 5 referring sites to the Web site:

  • 59: Google searches
  • 50: without-systemd.org
  • 33: Repology
  • 32: Reddit
  • 15: DuckDuckGo searches

Top 5 pages accessed (and homepage):

  • 1184: /
  • 212: /about.html
  • 49: /about-qa.html
  • 46: /team.html
  • 39: /announcements/
  • 39: /announcements/1.0-BETA2.html
  • 30: /contribute.html

Documentation

Multiple contributors have submitted fixes to our Administrator’s Handbook, which have all been merged.

gcompat

gcompat 0.4.0 has been released, bringing wider support and building on Travis CI. Read more in the official release announcement.

libucontext

libucontext is also now using Travis CI for automatic per-commit testing.

Packaging

A. Wilcox (awilfox@) updated many packages, including Gutenprint (printer drivers), Quaternion (Matrix chat client), and KDE applications.

Kiyoshi Aman (aerdan@) updated MATE packages.

Dan Theisen (djt@) updated nano, Postfix, and Protobuf, and added packages for Ruby RSpec.

General discussion

The patch for incorrect behaviour in the apk-tools list applet has landed upstream.

Our GRUB package has been overhauled to use /etc/default/grub as most other distributions, instead of /etc/update-extlinux.conf.

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