Archive for November, 2007
Re: Two years of Python
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007Andrew writes about Python, Perl and Ruby: Ruby has some nice things (like Perlish regular expression handling), but it brings back all that punctuation noise again. He gives an example of punctuation noise in Perl: I go back to Perl and my eyes bleed after trying to dereference a reference to a scalar, or something [...]
Where is the NM bottleneck?
Saturday, November 24th, 2007The current status of the NM process, with 1 NM awaiting FD approval, 7 awaiting DAM approval, and 30 waiting for their accounts to be created, leads people to thinking that the big bottleneck is the account creation stage. However, when you look at what happened since december 2005, it’s not that simple. See the [...]
SC07, MIT Fab labs, and empowering people
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007This morning’s SuperComputing’07 keynote was a talk by Neil Gershenfeld, director of the Center for Bits and Atoms at the MIT. He mentioned the MIT Fab Labs, a project to bring “Personal Fabrication” to people around the around. At our own level, that’s something I find very exciting with Free Software: it empowers people to [...]
NEW processing
Monday, November 5th, 2007NEW is currently nearly empty (only 3 packages), and there are only 2 NMs waiting for DAM approval. Some people deserve beers (… or milk ;) )!
Some numbers about Debian’s history
Sunday, November 4th, 2007There’s an interesting article on LWN.net about Gentoo: Who made Gentoo Linux, and when? A commit analysis I was wondering how Debian compared, so I made some stats using the debian-devel-changes archives. First, the number of source uploads per quarter: It’s interesting to note that, while the number of packages in Debian increased a lot, [...]