My Debian contributions this month were all sponsored by Freexian.
You can also support my work directly via Liberapay.
At the start of the month, I uploaded a quick fix (via Salvatore Bonaccorso) for a regression from CVE-2006-5051, found by Qualys; this was because I expected it to …
My Debian contributions this month were all sponsored by Freexian.
Rules-Requires-Root: no, thanks to a
suggestion
from Niels Thykier.My Debian contributions this month were all sponsored by Freexian.
The bulk of my Debian time this month went towards trying to haul more Python packages up to current versions, but I got a few other bits and pieces done as well.
One of the things I do as a side project for Freexian is to work on various bits of business automation: accounting tools, programs to help contributors report their hours, invoicing, that kind of thing. While it’s not quite my usual beat, this makes quite a good side project …
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 …