CRA, EU Cyber Resilience Act, has stirred a lot of discussion in the Open Source Communities. Will my project be usable in EU anymore? What are my responsibilities as a developer of open source software? My software is shipped with a commercial software, does it make me a manufacturer? Open…
There are 3 pillars of the open source ecosystem, tecnhnology, community and legal It is important to think beyond code -- beyond the pull requests and CI pipelines -- and into the broader questions of how we build, share, and sustain open source software together. The ninth Swedish OSPO Network…
Generally Linux commands print their version on stdout, for example git --version or python --version. But not ssh. ssh -V prints output to stderr. To test it you can do the following: git version on stdout > git --version 2> error 1> output > cat output git version…
After 145+ commits spread over multiple PRs, 450+ conversations and feedback, and accountable communication via several different communication mediums spanning over 2 years, the Ansible Release Management is finally completely automated, using GitHub Actions. When I joined Red Hat in November 2022, I was tasked with releasing the Ansible Community…
--- name: Testing Gha on: workflow_dispatch: inputs: GIT_BRANCH: description: The git branch to be worked on required: true jobs: test-pr-creation: name: Creates test PR runs-on: ubuntu-latest permissions: pull-requests: write contents: write env: GIT_BRANCH: ${{ inputs.GIT_BRANCH }} steps: - uses: actions/checkout@v4 - name: Updates README run:…
Each year, I try to experience a new PyCon. 2025, PyCon Lithuania was added to my PyCon calendar. Day before the conference What makes this PyCon, is that we were traveling there as a family and the conference days coincided with the Easter holidays. We utilized that to explore the…
Since the very inception of my journey in Python and PyLadies, I have always thought of having a PyLadies Conference, a celebration of PyLadies. There were conversations here and there, but nothing was fruitful then. In 2023, Mariatta, Cheuk, Maria Jose, and many more PyLadies volunteers around the globe made…
Over the years, when I am low, I always go to the 2014 Euro Python talk "Farewell and Welcome Home: Python in Two Genders" by Naomi. It has become the first step of my coping mechanism and the door to my safe house. Though 2024 marked my Euro…