I sent in my vote for the DPL election. Fortunately, devotee was written by Manoj, not me, so the response I got back didn’t look like this: You voted, yeah, yeah, yeah You voted, yeah, yeah, yeah You voted, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah…. Well, I thought you’d miss the vote, But your ballot came today! […]
So with the rebuttals up for the DPL campaign, it’s as good a time as any to post the couple of drafts I had that didn’t make it into mine: First, Ode to Zeke: Pussycat, pussycat, where have you been? I’ve been with Ari, he bought me some cream! Pussycat, pussycat, are you sure that […]
Joey replies to my post from yesterday with his own example of leaving: The technical details remain as irrelivant today as they were at the time, the relevant problem being that developers who are not involved in the installer development rarely consider how their actions can affect it. When a policy gets int the way […]
Back in September last year I blogged on #debian-tech, a new IRC channel for discussing Debian, but with a charter and some ops with a mandate to enforce it. At the time I wrote: It’ll probably be quite a bit different from #debian-devel on either OFTC or FreeNode; hopefully that’ll turn out to be in […]
Item one: debbugs has moved from CVS to bzr. Item two: it’s well past time I came out in support of Mary Gardiner’s brief guide on pronouncing “bzr”. Item three: don’t you find the Sugababes’ latest pop ditty really quite catchy? Put them all together, and what do you get? Hit the bzr I’m busy […]
Apparently a week’s mail is a 166MB these days for me; I may be on too many lists. In the past week, 1.9kB of that mail were a couple of missives from Charles Plessy, related to one of my blog posts from last month. Apparently he’s embarassed at being associated with what he wrote, and […]
Things I did today: 1. Found a t-shirt I’d forgotten buying! 2. Removed the empty SuperH architecture from the archive (binary-sh). Coincidence? You decide.
So following Florian’s chastisement of my “threatening” fellow Debian developers, Charles Plessy becomes annoyed by a bug in apt-file (its default configuration expects curl, but wget is what’s installed on most systems), at which point Luk Claes then starts threatening to NMU whether the maintainer likes it or not. Naturally that’s not the correct thing […]
And thus the entrapment’s completed, With the motion so newly anointed. Wichert, Jason, and Guy? They’re deleted! Steve, Andy and I? We’re appointed! Inspired by Mr Srivastava: <Manoj> congrats vorlon, aba, aj (*snigger suckers *snigger)
A friend o’ ne’er do wells, Got flashbacks to a time in the car; This master of izzard shells, Was headed for dinner, huzzah! In a car with those friends did he sit, Seeking something to consume. Through the streets of San Fran’ do they flit, Hunting the sacred legume. But out the car leapt […]
In late November, I did up a proposal to provide a way of making some of the interesting posts hidden away on the developer-only debian-private mailing list more public — mostly on the basis that secret discussions aren’t good for Debian, and that there’s some really fascinating discussions on topics which continue to come up, […]
So the final implementation detail in the embargoing scheme is providing a tool to move stuff from the embargoed and unembargoed queues into the archive. The existing tool the security team use is called “amber” (after the inimitable Amber Benson). amber’s pretty simple: it takes a DSA number, and the .changes files you’re looking at; […]
One of the most exciting things about working on Debian is that since it’s developed in the open, when you want to make changes everyone sees them, so depending on what you’re working on, the risk of breaking stuff can provide a real adrenaline rush, while you’re just sitting in your chair. So what better […]
A brief case study in a flamewar diverted. The release managers are currently preparing a followup to the architecture requalification, following the efforts made over the past couple of months. Four ports are currently looking shaky, namely m68k, arm, s390 and sparc. An early draft begins going into the details by saying the following: ARM […]
At the end of an interesting piece on permissions, Joey Hess concludes: I could give many more examples of subsystems in Debian that exist at different point in the spectrum between locked down unix permissions and a wiki. There seems to be a definite pull toward moving away from unix permissions, once ways can be […]