Archive for the 'PlanetUbuntu' Category
Triaging X Strike Force bugs with UDD Bugs Search
Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010Thanks to the work of Julien Viard de Galbert, UDD Bugs Search just gained the ability to help the triaging of X Strike Force bugs. He worked on the patch by installing his own copy of bugs.cgi on alioth. Don’t hesitate to do the same with your team!
Debian becoming upstream for ubuntu-dev-tools?
Saturday, October 30th, 2010Launchpad bug #643691: Please sync ubuntu-dev-tools 0.103 (universe) from Debian experimental (main) Did development of ubuntu-dev-tools move from Ubuntu to Debian? :-)
How to demotivate people (Re: Making Debian Responsible For Its Actions)
Wednesday, September 29th, 2010In my Ruby packaging in Debian and Ubuntu: Mythbusting and FAQ, I wrote The Ruby developers (or expert users) community is generally very hostile towards Debian. Many harsh words and insults are used in discussions mentioning Debian in the ruby-core@ mailing list, and there are frequent recommendations to avoid the Debian packages and install from [...]
UDD bugs search news
Saturday, September 18th, 2010Many changes to the UDD-backed Debian Bugs Search: moved to http://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi new filters: Bugs affecting stable Packages with outdated binaries in squeeze or sid Packages with different versions in squeeze and sid (that need to migrate) Packages which are newer in Ubuntu than in sid (good candidates for patches) Much nicer layout Some SQL optimization [...]
Helping improve Ruby on Debian and Ubuntu
Saturday, September 18th, 2010After my last blog post on Ruby in Debian and Ubuntu, I got a few offers for help, which is excellent. So I’ve decided to update this wiki page with pointers to the various team resources, and some examples of tasks that newcomers can do. I’d like to stress that many pending tasks are really [...]
Ruby packaging in Debian and Ubuntu: Mythbusting and FAQ
Sunday, September 12th, 2010A lot is being said on how Ruby is packaged in Debian and Ubuntu. In this post, I’m trying to go through the most common myths and give my position as a Debian Ruby maintainer. Note that those are my views, not necessarily those of the other Debian Ruby maintainers. Myth: Ruby is completely outdated [...]
System calls quizz
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010What is special about the socket, connect, bind, accept, … system calls? How does the errno value get from the kernel to applications? Some system calls return a number of times different of 1 in some cases. Which ones? (Put differently: enter a syscall once, exit more or less than once. Which ones can do [...]
RVM: seriously?
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010There’s some hype in the Ruby community about RVM (Ruby Version Manager). It’s a tool that allows to switch between Ruby versions on the same system (much like what the alternatives system provides for Java on Debian, except that RVM does it either system-wide or per-user). However, when you look at it, RVM looks quite [...]
Debian’s birthday on ubuntu.com today!
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010Ubuntu bugs with patches on the PTS and the QA Packages Overview
Monday, August 2nd, 2010Like the Debian BTS, Launchpad is full of open bugs with patches[1]. They have an ongoing effort called Operation Cleansweep whose goal is to get the number of bugs with patches to zero, by reviewing patches and forwarding them upstream or to Debian. Since it really makes sense to expose bugs with patches to the [...]