May 31st, 2007
The joys of packaging
Austin’s having a fun afternoon:
(groundstate) trust me, I’m working on gnustep
(groundstate) but it’s like packaging a sumo wrestler into a Pringles can
Archive for May, 2007
May 22nd, 2007
Web browser fun
Site upgraded to Wordpress 2.2, BTW.
A chance conversation on the Cooker IRC channel about lightweight web browsers (i.e. there really are no good ones) led me to discover that the GTK+ WebCore project is, in fact, not dead.
Yeah, who knew?
GTK+ WebCore is a port of WebKit, Apple’s web rendering libraries (used in Safari), to GTK+. […]
May 21st, 2007
Proclamation
I would like to proclaim that 2007 shall henceforth be known as ‘the year everyone forgot the difference between ‘reins’ and ‘reigns”.
Seriously, for some reason I see articles all over the place saying stuff like “he has the reigns of power” or whatever. What the hell is up with that? No-one seemed to have any […]
May 19th, 2007
fixin’
The simplest approach to being a bugmaster (though admittedly it really doesn’t scale well) is just to fix the damn things yourself.
so in the past couple of days, i’ve done updates / rebuilds for transcriber (and tclex), ayttm, gwget, gretl, pccts and gdis, addressing bugs 26358, 25023, 26200, 19022, 24189 and 26100. mm, smell the […]
May 18th, 2007
3D desktop article on Club
Olivier Blin wrote a nice article on the 3D desktop features in Mandriva Linux 2007 Spring. After translation and some proofreading, I’ve posted it to the Club. Take a look if you want to know more about the features and how configuring them works.
The bug project is progressing nicely: the bug policy has been refined […]
May 15th, 2007
Approach of the Bugmaster
With an air of slowly subsiding stunned bemusement, I relay the news that I have had the position of Mandriva Bugmaster bestowed upon me.
This happened in an early morning phone call from Anne Nicolas, our new Engineering Director. She called me (ostensibly) to discuss, in general terms, the situation with regards to bug management in […]
May 6th, 2007
Virtualization article up
The virtualization article is up on the Club. Please digg it, we’re trying to get MDV information and articles more visible publicly
May 3rd, 2007
Begone, mdk, begone!
My rebuilding-really-old-stuff binge is continuing. I got stuck for about three days on Skencil, a fairly old but still moderately used drawing app. After lots of frustration, lots of grepping, lots of exceedingly ugly perl substitution commands and several patches judiciously stolen^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hborrowed from other distros, we now have a Skencil package that builds on 2007.0, […]