Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 16, 2021
This edition contains the following feature content:
- Revisiting NaNs in Python: the Python development community returns to the question of how to handle not-a-number values in statistics functions.
- Extended attributes for special files: the first solution to a security-related problem is not always the best one.
- The folio pull-request pushback: the discussion that led to the folio patches not being pulled for 5.15.
- The rest of the 5.15 merge window: changes applied for the 5.15 kernel in the second half of the merge window.
- Roundup: managing issues for 20 years: the past, present, and future of the Roundup issue-tracker project.
This week's edition also includes these inner pages:
- Brief items: Brief news items from throughout the community.
- Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.
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