Dec-12-2019 Weekly Edition

Debian votes on init systems: the voting to determine the Debian project's position on init systems (and systemd in particular) has begun.

The end of the 5.5 merge window: another 6,000 patches worth of new stuff goes into the kernel.

Developers split over split-lock detection: should this feature be on by default, even if it might break some applications?

Working toward securing PyPI downloads: the process of securing the Python Package Index is slow and halting.

New features for the Kubernetes scheduler: what the core Kubernetes developers are up to.