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Background Elegant theme for pelican has been undergoing a big change from individual-driven effort to community, as part of this, one of the tasks to accomplish, has been the decoupling from author blog to project site for documentation. As we wanted this process to be both automated and allowed us to demonstrate via eat-your-own-dog-food that the theme works and how it looks, the idea was to automate the rendering of Pelican website with new documents. ...

Introduction In the article “Contributing to OpenStack” we did cover on how to prepare accounts and prepare your changes for submission upstream (and even how to find low hanging fruits to start contributing). Here, we’ll cover what happens behind the scene to get change published. Upstream workflow Peer review Upstream contributions to OSP and other projects are based on Peer Review, that means that once a new set of code has been submitted, several steps for validation are required/happen before having it implemented. ...

Peru a repository synchronizer Some projects upstream bind together lot of files which might not be of interest, but still the convenience of a git pull to get latest updates, makes you to download the whole repository for just a bunch of files or folders. For example, this website uses Pelican to generate the webpages out of markdown files. Pelican does have a rich set of plugins but all of them are in the same folder in the git checkout. ...

New blog post! After some great help and collaboration from all the colleagues reviewing, suggesting edits, we were able to prepare a blog post on Citellus, the tool we develop as part of our daily work solving cases. Check it out at Citellus: System configuration validation tool Enjoy! (and if you do, you can Buy Me a Coffee ) Pablo

Presentation at SuperSEC 2018! I’ve got a slot at SuperSEC 2018 (https://supersec.es/): Congress on secure software development, happening in Almería, Spain on the weekend on 12-13 May. I’ll be presenting on 13th may at 10:50, and the slide deck and I’ll be updating this once I get the recording URL. Some data about the event: Conference program and further data can be found at https://supersec.es/programa/ Twitter feed: https://twitter.com/SuperSEC_ES Shared Pics from attendees Press coverage: https://www.lavozdealmeria.com/noticia/12/almeria/151767/expertos-en-ciberseguridad-en-la-ual About the topics, the main focus was security on software from design phase to production and maintenance. ...