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 …
A while back there was a thread on one of our company mailing lists about SSH quoting, and I posted a long answer to it. Since then a few people have asked me questions that caused me to reach for it, so I thought it might be helpful if I …
Launchpad still requires Python 2, which in 2020 is a bit of a problem. Unlike a lot of the rest of 2020, though, there’s good reason to be optimistic about progress.
I’ve been porting Python 2 code to Python 3 on and off for a long time, from …
We released Storm 0.21 on Friday (the release announcement seems to be stuck in moderation, but you can look at the NEWS file directly). For me, the biggest part of this release was adding Python 3 support.
Storm is a really nice and lightweight ORM (object-relational mapper) for Python …
I’ve released man-db 2.8.7 (announcement, NEWS), and uploaded it to Debian unstable.
There are a few things of note that I wanted to talk about here. Firstly, I made some further improvements to the seccomp sandbox originally introduced in 2.8.0. I do still think it …