Archive for the 'Debian/Ubuntu' Category
Half of the package maintainers are not DDs or DMs
Monday, November 26th, 2012During the Paris Mini-Debconf, Nicolas Dandrimont talked about The state of mentors.debian.net: GSoC and beyond. He said that Half of Debian’s packages are maintained by sponsored maintainers. That statement was actually wrong, as he confirmed later. However, using a few UDD queries, I could come up with: 3147 packages out of 18649 packages in sid [...]
Mini-debconf lightning talk: Get involved! It’s not that hard!
Monday, November 26th, 2012This week-end I attended the Paris Mini-Debconf, which was really a great event, and a nice opportunity to meet everybody again. I delivered a lightning talk on “Get involved! It’s not that hard!“, which was also a good excuse to mention the Debian packaging tutorial and the Debian Maintainer Dashboard.
Introducing the Debian Maintainer Dashboard — help needed!
Monday, July 2nd, 2012The brand new machine for Ultimate Debian Database motivated me to do UDD-related work again, so I implemented an old idea: build a maintainer/team-centric dashboard relying on UDD, the Debian Maintainer Dashboard. The idea is to expose as much useful information as possible about a maintainer’s packages, both in the traditional (Developers Packages Overview-like) “big [...]
Debian archive rebuilds on Amazon Web Services
Wednesday, May 30th, 2012I like to think that archive rebuilds play an important role in Debian Quality Assurance and Release Management efforts. By trying to rebuild every Debian package from source, one can identify packages that do not build anymore due to changes in other packages (compilers, interpreters, libraries, …). It is also a good way to stress-test [...]
Going to RMLL (LSM) and Debconf!
Monday, July 4th, 2011Next week, I’ll head to Strasbourg for Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre 2011. On monday morning, I’ll be giving my Debian Packaging Tutorial for the second time. Let’s hope it goes well and I can recruit some future DDs! Then, at the end of July, I’ll attend Debconf again. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to [...]
#debian-ubuntu on OFTC
Sunday, June 6th, 2010If you are a Debian developer and need realtime interaction with an Ubuntu developer about the state of your packages in Ubuntu (or vice-versa), #debian-ubuntu on irc.oftc.net might be useful. I had forgotten about that channel, but it resurfaced during the discussions about improving communication between both projects.
EtherPad: web-based collaborative editor
Sunday, June 6th, 2010I recently (during a UDS lightning talk) discovered EtherPad. It’s a collaborative editor (like gobby), but uses a browser instead of a standalone application. It’s free software (Google open sourced it after buying the company that was developing it), and there’s a free online instance at ietherpad.com. Setting up a new pad is as simple [...]
Apply for the Google Summer of Code at Debian even if you are already a Debian Developer!
Monday, April 5th, 2010The Debian GSOC admins have made it clear that it is possible for DDs to be selected as GSOC students (even if people who are not Debian contributors will be prioritized). So, if you are a student, a Debian Developer, and interested in getting paid to work on Debian during the summer, it’s a very [...]
Debian’s KVM + Ubuntu karmic => bug?
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009I’ve been playing with virtualization, and KVM in particular. However, I’m running into an interesting problem. Below is how Ubuntu Netbook Remix look inside my KVM (either using virt-viewer, virt-manager or directly KVM to display the VM). Note how the top panel is fine. I’m using KVM 88 from experimental (but I had the same [...]
PTS as a great tool for upstream developers
Monday, March 3rd, 2008I recently realized how nice the Packages Tracking System is for upstream developers who want to follow the status of their software in Debian. By subscribing, they can easily monitor (and reply to) bug reports, and the general status of their software in Debian. I’m trying to help with coreutils maintainance, and it’s great to [...]