My Debian contributions this month were all sponsored by Freexian.
owner@bugs.debian.org mailbox and answering
a number of support requests there.My Debian contributions this month were all sponsored by Freexian.
d2to1.On Mastodon, the question came up of how Ubuntu would deal with something like the npm install everything situation. I replied:
Ubuntu is curated, so it probably wouldn’t get this far. If it did, then the worst case is that it would get in the way of CI allowing …
Two months into my new gig and it’s going great! Tracking my time has taken a bit of getting used to, but having something that amounts to a queryable database of everything I’ve done has also allowed some helpful introspection.
Freexian sponsors up to 20% of my time …
Now that I’m freelancing, I need to actually track my time, which is something I’ve had the luxury of not having to do before. That meant something of a rethink of the way I’ve been keeping track of my to-do list. Up to now that was a …
Apparently I got an honour from OpenUK.
There are a bunch of people I know on that list. Chris Lamb and Mark Brown are familiar names from Debian. Colin King and Jonathan Riddell are people I know from past work in Ubuntu. I’ve admired David MacIver’s work on …
I’ve mentioned this in a couple of other places, but I realized I never got round to posting about it on my own blog rather than on other people’s services. How remiss of me.
Anyway: after much soul-searching, I decided a few months ago that it was time …
I’ve released man-db 2.11.0 (announcement, NEWS), and uploaded it to Debian unstable.
The biggest chunk of work here was fixing some extremely long-standing issues with how the database is built. Despite being in the package name, man-db’s database is much less important than it used to …
As of 2022-02-16, Launchpad supports a couple of features on its SSH
endpoints (git.launchpad.net, bazaar.launchpad.net, ppa.launchpad.net,
and upload.ubuntu.com) that it previously didn’t: Ed25519 public
keys (a well-regarded format,
supported by OpenSSH since 6.5 in 2014) and signatures with existing RSA …
After a very long porting journey, Launchpad is finally running on Python 3 across all of our systems.
I wanted to take a bit of time to reflect on why my emotional responses to this port differ so much from those of some others who’ve done large ports, such …