Delays suck. I’m actually skipping ahead here, I’d meant to blog about updating the dak codebase into shape for whatever changes were coming up first, but it turns out I’m not in the mood for that. Besides which, most of this entry is preprepared. In the last few entries we went over the background for […]
The biggest difference between the hypothetical security queues and the existing byhand and new queues is that they need to be autobuilt; it’s not really feasible to try saying whether a security update is acceptable if there’s still some possibility it’s not going to build on half our architectures. Additionally, it means that there are […]
So having found time to catch up satisfactorily on the implementation, time to get back into the blogging. After working out what you actually want to do, the next step in implementing stuff, in my book, is to make sure you fully understand the context of the stuff you’re trying to change. In this case, […]
Continuing on from the SCC stuff, which I should probably get in the habit of calling the mirror split, then… At the same time as I’ve been trying to work out ways to fit the mirror split stuff into the AJ market concept, I’ve been pondering on and off what can be done to improve […]
Who can resist a good rhyme? Or a bad one? So this round of dak hacking turned out to make the AJ Market scheme another notch more confusing — hence the delay in blogging, and the teaser in my last post. The issue leading to the confusion is that the major item on the list […]
One of the things about the whole money thing and free software is the question of whether it’ll take all the fun and spontaneity out of hax0ring. As it turns out, that doesn’t even work when you try; so instead of doing dak work last weekend, like I’d planned and like the market was indicating, […]
Contrary to expectations, last week’s AJ Market project turned out to be debootstrap, not dak. Just goes to show a single person can make a difference in today’s world: debootstrap popped into the lead from nearly the bottom thanks to a single contribution. (I wonder if it makes more sense to make contributions anonymous or […]
Hrm, I’m going a bit single issue; I should fix that. But not right now. So it’s been a couple of weeks since I first posted about my little market experiment, which seems as good a time as any to take a look at how it’s working out. On the one hand it’s going fairly […]
So this week’s project was working on dak, in particular getting the tiffani implemention included. What’s tiffani, you ask? It lets you just download the changes to Sources.gz and Packages.gz files, instead of the whole damn thing — if you have main, contrib, and non-free for unstable in your sources.list, this means your apt-get update […]
So, this week’s AJ Market project was the first couple of items on my debbugs TODO list, viz: Finish off usertag support Implement usercategory support Both of these are essentially followup for the initial usertags announcement from last month. The usertags cleanup amounted to adding some basic documentation which will hopefully make it to the […]
Where to begin? One of the things that’s most struck me about Ubuntu is how far it’s progressed with little more than Debian as a base, some reasonable cash to cover a professional level of work, and some dedication to promoting itself and community building. As an experiment, in July, August and September I tried […]
From my irclogs of last month: <aj> vorlon: sounds like you should write up a OFTC #dd code of conduct :) In the tradition of all good free software hackers, Steve naturally managed to palm that back off onto me. In the end, we’ve decided to put together a new channel for Debian development discussion, […]
Today’s issue of Linux Weekly News includes a security response time comparison amongst major distros. Debian comes last on all the vulnerabilities examined bar one; here’s a summary of response times: Debian Fedora GenToo Red Hat SuSE Ubuntu Average days 19.8 5.8 7.4 12.0 12.7 5.0 Maximum days 35 16 14 28 16 12 Minimum […]
Back in June, I noted that LaunchPad isn’t free sotware, and because of that concluded: And that’s pretty much the point where Canonical’s not a free software company, but a vendor providing proprietary services for the free software community. I got a couple of private comments (which are reflected in an update to that post) […]
It’s Debian’s 12th birthday, and bubbles’ alphabetical birthday, and what better way to celebrate than with some recipe blogging? Bubbles Bread Ingredients: 1 slice of bread mustard mayonnaise Cover the bread with the mustard and mayonnaise. Be artistic! Serves 1.