Mon, 05 Dec 2011
Summary from the Bug Squashing Party in Hildesheim
Uff. Two and a half days of hunting release critical bugs ended yesterday evening.
It think it was quite a success. According to the statistics we closed
23 bugs with direct uploads, we created patches for 11, 9 bugs got
solved
by package removals, 6 will be closed by uploads via the
delayed queue, 2 bugs were closed as unreproducible, and 9 other bugs where
closed as well (e.g. already fixed in older version
). On the other
hand we opened 3 and upgraded 6 bugs to be release critical. So in the
end, we solved about...
60 bugs! Wow, I'm really impressed!
I'm also really pleased how well we integrated the newbs
. As I
already mentioned, when planing for this BSP started, we were a bit worried
about the DD / non-dd ratio, but in the end everything worked out very
well. All of those, who registered as interested users
where able
to fix some rc bugs, or help sort out some BTS hickups, e.g. bugs opened
with package a but closed in package b. And as a special pleasure it seems,
that the longest outstanding rc
bug might be fixed soonish, too :)
I'd also like to thank Pengutronix for hosting and sponsoring the BSP! The infrastructure worked very well: You arrived, plugged in your notebook, had a local mirror, IPv6 and fast enough connection to the outside. They also provided lots of snacks, cooked food and drinks (later they complained Debian people won't drink enough; apparently they calculated with way more drinks) and a general good atmosphere.
PS: To the best of my knowledge, it was also the greenest
bug squashing party ever, with most foods and all the electricity coming
from certified ecological production. Cool, eh?
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Sun, 04 Dec 2011
Second day of the BSP In Hildesheim
Stats so far:
Closed with direct uploadeds: 20
Supplied a patch: 7
Closed
by removals: 8
Unreproducible: 1
Closed otherwise (e.g. by proper versioning): 9
However, we also had to upgrade 6 and open 3 new bugs, but so far we still have solved more issues than we found :)
PS: Actually I think the numbers are even better, as we forgot to count some of the bugs.
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Sat, 03 Dec 2011
Report from the Bug Squashing Party in Hildesheim Part 1
Yesterday the Bug Squashing Party in Hildesheim, Germany started. I think it's going well, according to the statistics of the #debian-bugs channel, we solved 11 bugs with direct uploads, 2 with uploads to delayed, 5 via package removals and opened/upgraded only one. So we are still fixing more than we break ;)
I'm especially pleased that some of the above was done by
newbies
. When we started to organise this BSP (well, when I started
to watch Meike and Wolfram organise it to be precise), we where kind of
worried by the experienced developer
to newbie
ratio, and
already started to prepare introductions to packaging and similar adhoc
sessions, but as it seems they don't seem to be needed. Good :)
So back to fixing stuff, good hunt!
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Tue, 26 Jul 2011
Slides of the How to contribute and get involved
The slides for our How to contribute and get involved
are now
available at http://people.debian.org/~tolimar/talks/debconf-11/.
Feel free to ask any questions we might have left unanswered via e-mail or irc chat (I'm
Tolimar on irc.debian.org).
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Thu, 12 May 2011
Debian Theme for LaTeX-Beamer
Just stumbled over Debian beamer themes by Richard Darst. Very cool and exactly what I needed! Thanks!
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Thu, 05 May 2011
Getting to DebConf11 via night train from Germany
By the way: For DebConf attendees from Germany (or passing through Germany)
might be interesting, that you can currently book the night train from Munich to Zagreb
with a special price (called Spar Night
or something like that);
quite cheap: It's cheaper for Meike and me in a double cabin of that
train, than to fly for one of us. As far as I know it is a limited offer,
to book fast while you can!
Apparently you can't book that train via the web interface, but you can buy it in their offices and via phone.
Oh, an it seems that the train on the 22nd of July there and on the 31st
back might become a Debian train
. Seems there are already five of us
taking that one ;)
Update: Fixed a typo: DebConf is taking place in July, not in June.
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I'm going to DebConf11
PS: Other nice banners available in the DebConf WIki
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Fri, 25 Mar 2011
DebCamp for DebConf 11
If you are wondering, how we will manage to have the DebCamp preceding DebConf 11 in 2009, it's quite easy: Each attendee will find a time machine in his conference back.
By the way: To make that happen, the DebConf orga team is
looking
for help in fund raising. Please consider helping us, or we will have
to cancel the time machines and fall back to the boring DebCamp directly
preceding DebConf
solution.
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Wed, 16 Mar 2011
Video of the Linux New Media Award Ceremony online
I've just been told, that the video of the Linux New Media Award Ceremony (you might remember that Debian won in two categories) is now available online.
Update: To watch that video without a proprietary plugin, you can download the video and watch with xine or some other free media player. Thanks to Rhonda for the hint!
My (German) interview with RadioTux is also available online.
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