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Wed, 10 Mar 2010

Patience, my young padawan

How to keep the ftp-team motivated: Say Thanks from time to time.

How to ensure, you demotivate them: Complain, that we didn't answer your mail within 24 hours...

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Sun, 07 Mar 2010

[CeBIT] Oh, the irony...

Getting the special permission, that you don't need to wear a suit on the booth, just to wear one nonetheless, as it is to cold in your cool Debian T-Shirts...

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Thu, 04 Mar 2010

[CeBIT] HOWTO find our booth

As some people had problems finding our booth, here's a small explanation. We are guest at the booth of Univention in Hall 2, stand B36. It's quite near to the north entry, where you arrive by the tram lines 8 and 18.

Look for the univention booth:

If you are direct in front of the Univention booth, we are on the right hand side of the booth:

If you come from the other side, from the rest of the Open Source Area, it looks like this:

PS: And now, dear zobel, you have three guesses, what Pia is going to get for her birthday...

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Wed, 03 Mar 2010

[CeBIT] Something I like to share with the Debian community

I'm really delighted, thet you are here! You know, I started quite late with that whole IT business, and Debian was my first distribution. It all worked perfectly and took all my fears of it away!

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[CeBIT] Yes, we still have free tickets.

But speaking of that I must confess, that by mistake I deleted one of the mails asking for a such a free ticket, instead of replying. I'm very sorry. So if you come from the Netherlands, asked me for a ticket, and haven't got an answer, yet, please use one of the following links:

• Ticket One
• Ticket Two
• Ticket three

I hope, one of the links will work long enough, till the intended recipient reads this ;)

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[CeBIT] How to get instantly the attention of your audience of your talk

Start with the sentence: I'm pleased to present you on this Windows notebook in the Linux forum a talk about FreeBSD...

How to not loose their attention

Have the Windows notebook you where supplied with install some security updates during your talk, and then be constantly busy clicking the Please reboot popups away...

Well, I hope the video was working. I'm really looking forward to see that video.

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Tue, 02 Mar 2010

[CeBIT] Link to my Debian GNU/kFreeBSD talk

Sorry; I didn't made it in the promised 15 minutes (as someone turned the internet off), but here is finally the link to my (German) slides of my Debian GNU/kFreeBSD talk. (Sorry, no fancy website arround that, yet.)

I would also like to make clear, that Debian does not plan to drop its support for the Linux kernel. Debian will continue to release a linux based distribution. You may install the very same distribution based upon a FreeBSD kernel. It's your choice.

A several people asked that at our booth, I guess there is somewhere a misunderstanding, but I don't know the root if that missunderstanding. If someone could tell me, why he thought so (maybe I missed a unclear formulation somewhere?) I would be very glad and try to improve it.

So, thanks again for the kbsd people, who helped alot and really tried to answer every stupid question I came up with during preparing my talk :)

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Mon, 01 Mar 2010

[CeBIT] Free tickets for CeBIT

Sorry, I didn't had the time to update RC Bug statistics last week, and will probably also not be able this week, as I'll be quite busy, as CeBIT is about to start tomorrow, and I haven't written a script to create the statistics, yet.

While we are talking about CeBIT, you might already know, that Debian will again be present there. This as partner of Univention, a German company using Debian as base for its own distribution. I would like to thank them very much for their short hand acceptance of us at their booth.

If you intend to visit us (Hall 2, stand B36) and still have not ticket, feel free to drop me an E-Mail. We got some free tickets and I'll try to send you the link (you'll need to register at the CeBIT website and print your ticket yourself).

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Thu, 18 Feb 2010

RC-Bug statistics for Squeeze, calendar week 7:

Note: Please see RC-Bug statistics for Squeeze, calendar week 7 for an explanation of the numbers.

Total:	699	+49
Affecting Squeeze:	559	+41
Squeeze-only:	117	+23
Unfixed bugs remaining in Squeeze:	442	+18

Of these 442 bugs...

... are pending	36	+4
... are patched:	65	+1
... are duplicates:	47	+-0
... are in Non-free or contrib:	10	+10
... are claimed by someone:	14	-3
... are fixed in the delayed queue:	5	-1
... are somehow marked as fixed:	53	+14

Or in other words:
Release critical bugs left in squeeze, when ignoring all these:
262 (+2 compared to previous week).

With this release managers views, 472 (+48 compared to previous week) bugs remain to be fixed somehow before we can release.

Some notes:

• Lucas Nussbaum did another archive wide rebuild of all packages to detect some FTBFS bugs. Apparently he found some, so the number increased ;)
• Stefano Zack Zacchiroli wrote some very interesting (or should I say inspiring?) notes about his RCBW initiative running under the motto let's fix one Debian RC bug per-day.
• To the best of my knowledge, the problems with the mips* machines haven't been solved yet. So we are still looking for mips* porters. Please see this small problem description as well as the mails on our mips mailing list.

So much for this week. Let's see, how the numbers evolve in the coming seven days...

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