Giving packages away, new meme
In the last few weeks I started to reduce my workload a bit by giving away packages to other Maintainers. I'm only partially successful, I still have 35 packages with my name on them (down from 42...
View ArticleAbout lost Debian NM applicants
As it looks like blogging is now the preferred way of sharing your thoughts, I guess I'll have to answer in my own blog to the problems starting with Thomas Hood post about withdrawing from the NM...
View ArticleNo, I haven't posted the same article for the third time
Planet Debian and my s9y seem to like the idea of presenting the oooold article on http://gonzo.dicp.de/~he/blog/archives/18-New-New-Maintainer-Documentation.html as new. It's not. Thanks for offering...
View ArticleThe differences between Christmas and Chanukah
If anyone asks you what the difference is between Christmas and Chanukah, you will know what and how to answer! 1. Christmas is one day, same day every year, December 25. Jews also love December 25th....
View ArticleFor those who care about advanced sexual positions
I fear that though we seem to be in the announcement season for those who care about announcements, I haven't seen an announcement about the publishing date for "Advanced sexual positions - how to...
View ArticleWhy I keep working on Debian
I haven't blogged in a long time, so I probably should drop some thoughts here to show that I'm still around. In the past few months, I have been able to dump some of my work on other people by...
View ArticleDebian's BTS sucks
Blogging is hard, isn't it? Finding a topic that's not better placed on specific mailing list or somewhere else is not easy. One of the classical subjects for bloggers is ranting. And that's what I...
View ArticleDebian's BTS still sucks
In response to my rant about Debian's BTS, I got some mails about other project's handling of bug tracking system - I'm still looking through those. More interestingly, Joey Hess blogged about it and...
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The german cabal ...
So we had one of our german cabal meetings a few weeks ago. They happen seldom enough, seeing how we already control most of Debian. Anyway, I think you would be surprised how formal these meetings are:
View Article"What to do when I've collected all left socks" or "what I want to change in...
It's this time of the year again: The one where I look back at my involvement in the project and decide that I've been a member long enough, so I should probably get out. For Debian, there are two...
View ArticleWhy THEY don't want me to collect all left socks
Yoe seems to believe I see a cabal in Debian. Let me assure you: I don't - and if there would be a cabal, I would be part of it. I've seen most of Debian, played around with NM, the release team, have...
View ArticleNo DPL campaigning to see, please move along
Even though Adrian von Bidder suggests that I'm starting a bit early with the DPL campaigning, I thought I could add a few more thoughts to the blagosphere. Adrian suggested to make the discussion of...
View ArticleStill not campaigning for DPL
In my first post about my current problems with Debian, I noticed that there doesn't seem to be a common vision of Debian's future. My last post was about Debian's current state of moving from stable...
View ArticleReleasing works!
Some people expressed some concerns about the fact that we currently have about ~440 bugs in testing, but still hold to our plan of releasing in september 2008. The development of the RC bug graph as...
View ArticlePerl5.10 transition
We are currently having the fun of a perl update in unstable - most packages have been rebuilt and work just fine, now cleaning up the mess starts. Please don't expect perl to enter lenny in the next...
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