20 years ago, I got my Debian Developer account. I was 18 at the time, it was Shrove Tuesday and - as is customary - I was drunk when I got the email. There was so much that I did not know - which is also why the process took 1.5 years from the time I applied. I mostly only maintained a package or two. I'm still amazed that Christian Perrier and Joerg Jaspert put sufficient trust in me at that time. Nevertheless now feels like a good time for a personal reflection of my involvement in Debian.
During my studies I took on more things. In January 2008 I joined the Release Team as an assistant, which taught me a lot of code review. I have been an Application Manager on the side.
Going to my first Debconf was really a turning point. My first one was Mar del Plata in Argentina in August 2008, when I was 21. That was quite an excitement, traveling that far from Germany for the first time. The personal connections I made there made quite the difference. It was also a big boost for motivation. I attended 8 (Argentina), 9 (Spain), 10 (New York), 11 (Bosnia and Herzegovina), 12 (Nicaragua), 13 (Switzerland), 14 (Portland), 15 (Germany), 16 (South Africa), and hopefully I'll make it to this year's in Brest. At all of them I did not see much of the countries as I prioritized all of my time focused on Debian, even skipping some of the day trips in favor of team meetings. Yet I am very grateful to the project (and to my employer) for shipping me there.I ended up as Stable Release Manager for a while, from August 2008 - when Martin Zobel-Helas moved into DSA - until I got dropped in March 2020. I think my biggest achievements were pushing for the creation of -updates in favor of a separate volatile archive and a change of the update policy to allow for more common sense updates in the main archive vs. the very strict "breakage or security" policy we had previously. I definitely need to call out Adam D. Barratt for being the partner in crime, holding up the fort for even longer.In 2009 I got too annoyed at the existing wanna-build team not being responsive anymore and pushed for the system to be given to a new team. I did not build it and significant contributions were done by other people (like Andreas Barth and Joachim Breitner, and later Aurelien Jarno). I mostly reworked the way the system was triggered, investigated when it broke and was around when people wanted things merged.
In the meantime I worked sys/netadmin jobs while at university, both paid and as a volunteer with the students' council. For a year or two I was the administrator of a System z mainframe IBM donated to my university. We had a mainframe course and I attended two related conferences. That's where my s390(x) interest came from, although credit for the port needs to go to Aurelien Jarno.
Since completing university in 2013 I have been working for a company for almost 12 years. Debian experience was very relevant to the job and I went on maintaining a Linux distro or two at work - before venturing off into security hardening. People in megacorps - in my humble opinion - disappear from the volunteer projects because a) they might previously have been studying and thus had a lot more time on their hands and b) the job is too similar to the volunteer work and thus the same brain cells used for work are exhausted and can't be easily reused for volunteer work. I kept maintaining a couple of things (buildds, some packages) - mostly because of a sense of commitment and responsibility, but otherwise kind of scaled down my involvement. I also felt less connected as I dropped off IRC.Last year I finally made it to Debian events again: MiniDebconf in Berlin, where we discussed the aftermath of the xz incident, and the Debian BSP in Salzburg. I rejoined IRC using the Matrix bridge. That also rekindled my involvement, with me guiding a new DD through NM and ending up in DSA. To be honest, only in the last two or three years I felt like a (more) mature old-timer.
I have a new gig at work lined up to start soon and next to that I have sysadmining for Debian. It is pretty motivating to me that I can just get things done - something that is much harder to achieve at work due to organizational complexities. It balances out some frustration I'd otherwise have. The work is different enough to be enjoyable and the people I work with are great.

The future
I still think the work we do in Debian is important, as much as I see a lack of appreciation in a world full of containers. We are reaping most of the benefits of standing on the shoulders of giants and of great decisions made in the past (e.g. the excellent Debian policy, but also the organizational model) that made Debian what it is today.Given the increase in size and complexity of what Debian ships - and the somewhat dwindling resource of developer time, it would benefit us to have better processes for large-scale changes across all packages. I greatly respect the horizontal effects that are currently being driven and that suck up a lot of energy.A lot of our infrastructure is also aging and not super well maintained. Many take it for granted that the services we have keep existing, but most are only maintained by a person or two, if even. Software stacks are aging and it is even a struggle to have all necessary packages in the next release.Hopefully I can contribute a bit or two to these efforts in the future.

During Debconf17 I was asked by Daniel Pocock if I can attend FOSScamp Syros to help with Debian s l10n in the Balkans. I said I would be happy to, although my visit would be short (2.5 days) due to previous plans. The main idea of camp is to have FOSS people meet for about 1 week near a beach. So it s sun, water and free software. This year it takes place in Syros, Greece. After take the morning ferry, I met with the guys at noon. I didn t know how would it be, as it s my first time with this group/meeting, but they were very nice and welcoming. 10 minutes after my arrival I found myself setting with two of the female attendees starting to work on Albanian (sq) translation of Debian Installer. It took my a few minutes to find my where to check out the current level1 files, as I thought they aren t in SVN anymore, but ended up learning the PO files is the only part of the installer still on SVN. As the girls were quick with the assinged levle1 sublevels, I started to look for the level2 and level3 files, and it was annoying to have the POT files very accessible, but no links to the relevant git repositories. I do want to have all the relevant links in one central place, so people who want to help with translation could do that. While some of the team member just used a text editor to edit the files, I suggested to them using either poedit or granslator, both I used a few years ago. Yaron Shahrabani also recommended virtaal to me, but after trying it for a while I didn t like it (expect it s great feature showing the diff with fuzzy messages). For the few people who also have Windows on their machine, both poedit and Virtaal have windows binaries for download. So you don t have to have Linux in order to help with translations. In parallel, I used the free time to work on the Hebrew translation for level1, as it s been a while since either me or Omer Zak worked on it. Quite soon the guys started to send me the files for review, and I did find some errors using diff. Especially when not everyone use a PO editor. I also missed a few strings during the review, which got fixed later on by Christian Perrier. Team work indeed (: I found it interesting to see the reactions and problems for the team to work with the PO files, and most projects now use some system (e.g. Pootle) for online web translation. Which saves some of the head ace, but also prevents from making some review and quality check before submitting the files. It s a good idea to explore this option for Debian as well. A tip for those who do want to work with PO files, either use git s diff features or use colordiff to check your changes (notice less will require -R parameter to keep the color). Although I met the guys only at noon, the day was very fruitful for Debian Installer l10n:

• Albanian (sq) level1 from 78% to 82% (Eva Vranici, Silva Arapi)
• Albanian (sq) level2 from 20% to 24% (Nafie Shehu)
• Hebrew (he) level1 from 96% to 97% (me)
• Greek (el) level1 from 96% to 97% (Sotirios Vrachas)

Some files are still work in progress and will be completed tomorrow. My goal is to have Albanian at 100% during the camp and ready for the next d-i alpha. I must admit that I remember d-i to have many more strings as part of the 3 levels, especially levels 2+3 which were huge (e.g. the iso codes). Except all the work and FOSS related conversations, I found a great group who welcomed me quickly, made me feel comfortable and taught me a thing or two about Greece and the Syros specifically. TIP: try the dark chocolate with red hot chili pepper in the icecream shop.
Filed under: Debian GNU/Linux, i18n & l10n

Hello dear readers, It's been ages since I last blogged. Being far less active in Debian than I've been in the past, I guess this is a logical consequence. However, I'm still active as you may witness if you read the debian-boot mailing list : I still consider myself part of the D-I team and I'm maintaining a few sports-related packages. Most know what has taken precedence over Debian development, namely trail and ultra-trail running. And, well, it hasn't decreased, far from that : I ran about 10 races already this year....6 of them being above 50km and I ran my favourite 100km moutain race in early July for the second year in a row. So, the upcoming week, I'll be trying to reach what is usually considered as the Grail of ultra-trail runners : the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc race in Chamonix. The race is fairly simple : run all around the Mont-Blanc summits, for a 160km race with a bit less than 10,000 meters positive climb. The race itself takes place between 800 and 2700 meters (so no "high mountain") and I expect to complete it (if I succeed) in about 40 hours. I'm very confident (maybe too much?) as I successfully completed a much more difficult race last year (only 144km, but over 11,000 meters positive climb and a much more difficult path...it took me over 50 hours to complete it). You can follow me on the live tracking site. The race starts on Friday August 26th, 18:00 CET DST. I everything goes well, I have great projects for next year, including a 100-mile race in Colorado in August (we'll be traveling in USA for over 3 weeks, peaking with the solar eclipse of August 21st in Kansas City).

Last month I more-or-less accepted an invitation that got me scared at first, panicking after a while. Why do I put myself in such an uncomfortable position? Well, I think that s how we grow up I was first contacted to talk about women participation in Debian, which I kindly refused, but I said I would maybe talk about motivating new contributors, possibly with some more friends that would maybe join me at the stage. I need to confess that at that moment I had no idea (ok, a vague idea ) about what I was going to talk. So I promptly emailed some Debian friends, shared the invitation, shared some thoughts, got feedbacks, got encouragement, and we finally made it! For the video conference we used mconf.org which worked super well (the downside is that it requires flash, maybe you could help them get rid of it?). I had also recorded a backup video with vokoscreen, just in case Murphy would decide to go to Curitiba but everything worked well. We a single moment with connection issues, but the torrent user kindly released the bandwidth The main point I made in the talk is that Debian as a Universal Operating System is still an utopia, especially when we extend our understanding of universality to our contributors. And as an utopia, it serves to make us walk! The more we advance, the more it gets further away, so we need to keep walking. Another important point was that diversity is not an issue that touches only woman. My audience was full of Portuguese native speakers, from a third world country, a few women, many more man, a couple of DDs, some longtime contributors, some newbies, and most of them are also part of minorities in our community. I bet many of them has already felt like a weed growing surrounded by concrete at least once in their lifetimes Solidarity towards our utopia was my final message. Just for fun, and to make a recap of our conversation at the end, I made a list of 10 steps that we could all give to contribute to a more universal Debian: 1. Read our Social Contract and make sure we are all at the same page
2. Improve Debian documentation
3. Remember that diversity does not concern only women
4. Keep an eye on minority groups and show solidarity
5. Be open and alert to the needs of newbies
6. Help Debian teams to be prepared to welcome new contributors
7. Reserve part of our time to integrate new members to the community
8. Promote hands-on meetings (local and remote)
9. Promote peer-mentoring among newbie contributors
10. Do not see Debian members as special beings, we are all humans! You can check my slides or the video of the live transmission if you want to see more. In case you can not follow the audio, I d be happy to provide subtitles (but I probably won t work on that if I don t receive have any request). And if you invite me to another conference, we can have a similar chat at with your community. Note: in person is more fun Finally, I d like to thank the participants of the mini-DebConf, those that followed this session and those who were practicing how to package on the other room, Paulo Santana and all the local organization team for the invitation, Ana Guerrero and Laura Arjona for the remote support and feedback, Andreas Tille for the efforts in integrating new contributors, Christian Perrier for the developer statistics, Val ssio for being in the audience and the Debian Project for the inspiration. What we had we Brazil this weekend was a taste of a flourishing and welcoming community, I am proud and honored to be part of it!

Thorsten Glaser reported Debian bug #780000 on Saturday March 7th 2015, against the gcc-4.9 package. Bug #770000 was reported as of November 18th so there have been 10,000 bugs in about 3.5 months, which was significantly slower than earlier. Salvatore Bonaccorso reported Debian bug #790000 on Friday June 26th 2015, against the pcre3 package. Thus, there have been 10,000 bugs in 3.5 months again. It seems that the bug report rate stabilized again. Sorry for missing bug #780000 annoucement. I'm doing this since....November 2007 for bug #450000 and it seems that this lack of attention is somehow significant wrt my involvment in Debian. Still, this involvment is still here and I'll try to "survive" in the project until we reach bug #1000000...:-) See you for bug #800000 annoucement and the result of the bets we placed on the date it would happen.

Here it is. Debian had eight hundred thousand bugs reported in its history. Tomasz Muras guessed, more than 2 years ago, that it would be reported on September 24h, and it has been reported on 25th. Good catch! Chris Lamb is the happy bug submitter for this release critical bug against the vdr-plugin-prefermenu package. Of course, I will soon open the wiki page for the bug #900000 bet, which will again include a place where you can also bet for bug #1000000. Be patient, the week-end is coming..:-) It took two years, 7 months and 18 days to report 100,000 bugs in Debian since bug #700000 was reported.

Hello dear readers, Next week, I'll be running the "Echappee Belle" race : 144km and 10.000 meters positive climb, in French Alps (Belledonne range, this time). That will be, by far, my longest race ever and indeed a great challenge for me with very difficult tracks (when there are tracks). I expect to run for about 48 hours, or even up to 55, two nights out.....or maybe less as I'm in very good shape. You can follow me on the live tracking site. The race starts on Friday August 28th, 06:00 CET DST.

Hello dear readers, It has been quite some time since I blogged on Planet Debian,so today, I just want to give some news to fellow Debian pals. My involvment in Debian is still there. I'm probably less visible nowadays, but I'm still actively working on some packages, monotiring some i18n activities and doing work on D-I. But, as you know, running has taken precedence nowadays and is still becoming a growing part of my life (along with my family, of course). This year, I had a first "summit" running the "Vulcain" trail race in French "Massif Central" (mountains in Central France), which was 80km and 3000m positive climb race. It was run mostly in snow and with quite bad weather conditions, a good training for more difficult races. I completed it in about more than 12 hours, for a race that finally had less than 60% finishers. Later on, most races were preparation races for the summer moutain races : I mostly ran three 50km trail races in the Paris and neighbourhood area. All of them were very good results with a good feeling. Some were run along with friends from the Kikourou.net web community, where I am now very active. My training was also strongly increased wrt former years (yes that *is* possible), peaking at more than 500km during May, where I was mostly on holidays all month long (lucky man). And now, the first Great Great Thing of the year is coming : La Montagn'hard, 110 kilometers, about 9000 meters positive climb, around Les Contamines, close to Mont-Blanc in French Alps. That is a Big One, indeed. Technically more difficult than the TDS race I ran last August, during DebConf (120km, but "only" 7000 meters climb). Montagn'hard is indeed known as one of the most difficult moutain trail races in France. I plan to complete it in about 29 hours....but that can indeed be 30, 32 or even 35, who knows what can happen? Given the very high temperatures over Europe this week (they'll peak at about 38 C on Saturday in the Alps), that will be an incredibly difficult challenge and we expect about only 40% finishers. A live tracking will be available for thos who care at http://chrono.geofp.com/montagnhard2015/v3/. Wish me luck ! Next challenge will be end of August, with the "Echappee Belle" race : 144km and 10.000 meters positive climb, still in French Alps (Belledonne range, this time). About 48 hours, or even up to 55, two nights out.....harder and hopefully better, faster, stronger...:-)

Thorsten Glaser reported Debian bug #780000 on Saturday March 7th 2015, against the gcc-4.9 package. Bug #770000 was reported as of November 18th so there have been 10,000 bugs in about 3.5 months, which was significantly slower than earlier. Matthew Vernon reported Debian bug #790000 on Friday June 26th 2015, against the pcre3 package. Thus, there have been 10,000 bugs in 3.5 months again. It seems that the bug report rate stabilized again. Sorry for missing bug #780000 annoucement. I'm doing this since....November 2007 for bug #450000 and it seems that this lack of attention is somehow significant wrt my involvment in Debian. Still, this involvment is still here and I'll try to "survive" in the project until we reach bug #1000000...:-) See you for bug #800000 annoucement and the result of the bets we placed on the date it would happen.

Debian Jessie has been released on April 25th, 2015. This has opened the Stretch development cycle. Reactions to the idea of making Debian build reproducibly have been pretty enthusiastic. As the pace is now likely to be even faster, let's see if we can keep everyone up-to-date on the developments. Before the release of Jessie The story goes back a long way but a formal announcement to the project has only been sent in February 2015. Since then, too much work has happened to make a complete report, but to give some highlights:

• New variations are now tested: umask, kernel version, domain name, and timezone. We might only be missing CPU type and current date now.
• Many improvements to the test system on jenkins.debian.net and the pages showing the results.
• Now not only packages from unstable are tested but also those in testing and experimental.
• When rescheduling packages for testing, the build products can be kept and the IRC channel gets a notification when its over.
• binutils version 2.25-6 is now built with the --enable-deterministic-archives flag. Making ar, strip and others create deterministic static libraries.
• Number of identified issues has grown from about 80 to 123 today.

Lunar did a pretty improvised lightning talk during the Mini-DebConf in Lyon. This past week It seems changes were pilling behind the curtains given the amount of activity that happened in just one week. Toolchain fixes

• Niels Thykier uploaded debhelper/9.20150501 which includes fixes to dh_makeshlibs (#774100), dh_icons (#774102), dh_usrlocal (#775020). Patches written by Lunar.
• Helmut Grohne uploaded doxygen/1.8.9.1-3 which will not generate timestamps in HTML by default. Kudos to akira for bringing the issue upstream.
• Kenneth J. Pronovici uploaded epydoc/3.0.1+dfsg-6 adding a --no-include-build-time option. Patch by Jelmer Vernooij.
• David Pr vot uploaded php-apigen/2.8.1+dfsg-2 which now has reproducible output.
• C dric Boutillier uploaded ruby-prawn/2.0.1+dfsg-1 which now produce a deterministic output when using gradients. Patch by Lunar.
• Jelmer Vernooij uploaded samba/2:4.1.17+dfsg-4 which contains a patch by Matthieu Patou making the output of pidl (from libparse-pidl-perl) reproducible.
• Dmitry Shachnev uploaded sphinx/1.3.1-1 in experimental which should produce deterministic output. The original patch from Chris Lamb has inspired the upstream fix.
• gregor herrmann uploaded libextutils-depends-perl/0.404-1 which makes ExtUtils::Depends output deterministic. Original patch by Reiner Herrmann.
• Niko Tyni uploaded perl/5.20.2-4 which makes the output of Pod::Man reproducible. Nice team work visible on #780259.

We also rebased the experimental version of debhelper twice to merge the latest set of changes. Lunar submitted a patch to add a -creation-date to genisoimage. Reiner Herrmann opened #783938 to request making -notimestamp the default behavior for javadoc. Juan Picca submitted a patch to add a --use-date flag to texi2html. Packages fixed The following packages became reproducible due to changes of their build dependencies: apport, batctl, cil, commons-math3, devscripts, disruptor, ehcache, ftphs, gtk2hs-buildtools, haskell-abstract-deque, haskell-abstract-par, haskell-acid-state, haskell-adjunctions, haskell-aeson, haskell-aeson-pretty, haskell-alut, haskell-ansi-terminal, haskell-async, haskell-attoparsec, haskell-augeas, haskell-auto-update, haskell-binary-conduit, haskell-hscurses, jsch, ledgersmb, libapache2-mod-auth-mellon, libarchive-tar-wrapper-perl, libbusiness-onlinepayment-payflowpro-perl, libcapture-tiny-perl, libchi-perl, libcommons-codec-java, libconfig-model-itself-perl, libconfig-model-tester-perl, libcpan-perl-releases-perl, libcrypt-unixcrypt-perl, libdatetime-timezone-perl, libdbd-firebird-perl, libdbix-class-resultset-recursiveupdate-perl, libdbix-profile-perl, libdevel-cover-perl, libdevel-ptkdb-perl, libfile-tail-perl, libfinance-quote-perl, libformat-human-bytes-perl, libgtk2-perl, libhibernate-validator-java, libimage-exiftool-perl, libjson-perl, liblinux-prctl-perl, liblog-any-perl, libmail-imapclient-perl, libmocked-perl, libmodule-build-xsutil-perl, libmodule-extractuse-perl, libmodule-signature-perl, libmoosex-simpleconfig-perl, libmoox-handlesvia-perl, libnet-frame-layer-ipv6-perl, libnet-openssh-perl, libnumber-format-perl, libobject-id-perl, libpackage-pkg-perl, libpdf-fdf-simple-perl, libpod-webserver-perl, libpoe-component-pubsub-perl, libregexp-grammars-perl, libreply-perl, libscalar-defer-perl, libsereal-encoder-perl, libspreadsheet-read-perl, libspring-java, libsql-abstract-more-perl, libsvn-class-perl, libtemplate-plugin-gravatar-perl, libterm-progressbar-perl, libterm-shellui-perl, libtest-dir-perl, libtest-log4perl-perl, libtext-context-eitherside-perl, libtime-warp-perl, libtree-simple-perl, libwww-shorten-simple-perl, libwx-perl-processstream-perl, libxml-filter-xslt-perl, libxml-writer-string-perl, libyaml-tiny-perl, mupen64plus-core, nmap, openssl, pkg-perl-tools, quodlibet, r-cran-rjags, r-cran-rjson, r-cran-sn, r-cran-statmod, ruby-nokogiri, sezpoz, skksearch, slurm-llnl, stellarium. The following packages became reproducible after getting fixed:

• berkeley-abc/1.01+20141105hg5b5af75+dfsg-3 uploaded by Ruben Undheim, original patch by Johann Klammer.
• binutils/2.25-7 by Matthias Klose.
• bitmap-mule/8.5+0.20030825.0433-16 uploaded by Tatsuya Kinoshita, original patch by Chris Lamb.
• blobby/1.0-2 by Felix Geyer.
• codelite/7.0+dfsg-2 by James Cowgill.
• conkeror/1.0~~pre-1+git150409-1 by Axel Beckert.
• convmv/1.15-1 by Christian Perrier.
• cpl/6.6~b-1 by Ole Streicher.
• deheader/1.1-2 by Reiner Herrmann.
• dict-foldoc/20150318-1 uploaded by Iustin Pop, original patch by Chris Lamb.
• ding/1.8-1 by Roland Rosenfeld.
• doc-rfc/20150425-1 by Iustin Pop.
• doxygen/1.8.9.1-3 by Helmut Grohne.
• eureka/1.07-1 by Fabian Greffrath.
• eximdoc4/4.85-2 uploaded by Andreas Metzler, original patch by Chris Lamb.
• flashproxy/1.7-3 by Ximin Luo.
• heimdal/1.6~rc2+dfsg-10 by Jelmer Vernooij.
• init-system-helpers/1.23 by Martin Pitt original patch by Lunar.
• ldb/2:1.1.20-2 by Jelmer Vernooij.
• libalien-wxwidgets-perl/0.67+dfsg-1 uploaded by gregor herrmann, original patch by Chris Lamb.
• libcairo-perl/1.105-1 by intrigeri.
• libclass-methodmaker-perl/2.24-1 uploaded by gregor herrmann, original patch by Chris Lamb.
• libcommon-sense-perl/3.73-3 uploaded by gregor herrmann, original patch by Chris Lamb.
• libelixirfm-perl/1.1.976-4 uploaded by gregor herrmann, original patch by Chris Lamb.
• libgnome2-perl/1.045-3 by intrigeri.
• libjs-jcrop/0.9.12+dfsg-2 uploaded by David Pr vot, original patch by Chris Lamb.
• liblas/1.8.0-2 by Bas Couwenberg.
• libopengl-perl/0.6704+dfsg-1 uploaded by gregor herrmann, original patch by Chris Lamb.
• libparse-recdescent-perl/1.967009+dfsg-2 uploaded by gregor herrmann, original patch by Reiner Herrmann.
• librasterlite/1.1g-5 by Bas Couwenberg.
• libterm-size-perl-perl/0.029-2 uploaded by gregor herrmann, original patch by Chris Lamb.
• libvdpau/1.1-1 by Andreas Beckmann.
• libxml-sax-expatxs-perl/1.33-2 uploaded by gregor herrmann, original patch by Chris Lamb.
• lynx-cur/2.8.9dev4-2 by Axel Beckert.
• mapcache/1.2.1-3 by Bas Couwenberg.
• mdbtools/0.7.1-4 by Jean-Michel Nirgal Vourg re.
• mopidy uploaded by Stein Magnus Jodal, fixed by upstream.
• objenesis/2.1-1 by Markus Koschany.
• opendkim/2.10.1-2 uploaded by Scott Kitterman, original patch by Reiner Herrmann.
• pktools/2.6.3-1 by Bas Couwenberg.
• posh/0.12.4 uploaded by Clint Adams, original patch by Chris Lamb.
• prboom-plus/2:2.5.1.4~svn4425+dfsg1-1 by Fabian Greffrath.
• qlandkartegt/1.8.1+ds-1 by Bas Couwenberg.
• readosm/1.0.0d-1~exp2 by Bas Couwenberg.
• robocode/1.9.2.4-1 by Markus Koschany.
• ruby-prawn/2.0.1+dfsg-1 uploaded by C dric Boutillier, original patch by Lunar.
• sane-backends/1.0.25+git20150425-1 by J rg Frings-F rst.
• scoop/0.7.1-3 by Daniel Stender.
• springlobby/0.218-1 by Markus Koschany.
• subvertpy/0.9.2-1 by Jelmer Vernooij.
• t-prot/3.4-2 by Axel Beckert.
• talloc/2.1.2-3 by Jelmer Vernooij.
• tdb/1.3.4-2 by Jelmer Vernooij, patch now applied by upstream.
• tk-html3/3.0~fossil20110109-5 by Ole Streicher.
• tox/1.9.2-2 uploaded by Barry Warsaw original patch by Reiner Herrmann.
• trove3/3.0.3-2 by Erich Schubert.
• txt2man/1.5.6-2 uploaded by Joao Eriberto Mota Filho, initial patch by Jonathan Wiltshire.
• units/2.11-2 by Stephen Kitt.
• win32-loader/0.7.10 upload by Didier Raboud, original patch by Lunar.
• zec/0.12-3 uploaded by Clint Adams, original patch by Chris Lamb.
• zomg/0.8-1 uploaded by Clint Adams, original patch by Chris Lamb.

Some uploads fixed some reproducibility issues but not all of them:

• ada-reference-manual/1:2012.2-4 by Nicolas Boulenguez.
• adacontrol/1.16r11-3 by Nicolas Boulenguez.
• aspectj/1.8.5-1 by Emmanuel Bourg.
• binutils-m68hc1x/1:2.18-4 uploaded by Riku Voipio, original patch by Chris Lamb.
• debianutils/4.5) uploaded by Clint Adams, original patch by Lunar.
• ioquake3/1.36+u20150412+dfsg1-1 by Simon McVittie.
• libsdl1.2/1.2.15-11 uploaded by Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo, original patch by Chris Lamb; currently FTBFS.
• libsdl2/2.0.2+dfsg1-7 by Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo, original patch by Chris Lamb; currently FTBFS.
• nedit/1:5.6a-2 by Paul Gevers.
• openarena-085-data/0.8.5split-4 by Simon McVittie.
• openarena-data/0.8.5split-4 by Simon McVittie.
• openarena/0.8.8-12 by Simon McVittie.
• openchange/1:2.2-6 by Jelmer Vernooij.
• puredata/0.46.6-1 by IOhannes m zm lnig.
• pyexiv2/0.3.2-8 by Michal iha ; currently FTBFS.
• quakespasm/0.90.0-2 by Stephen Kitt.
• sed/4.2.2-5 by Clint Adams, patch by Lunar.
• v4l2loopback/0.8.0-5 uploaded by IOhannes m zm lnig, original patch by Chris Lamb.
• vim/2:7.4.712-1 uploaded by James McCoy, original patch by Reiner Herrmann.
• zookeeper/3.4.6-4 by Emmanuel Bourg.

Patches submitted which did not make their way to the archive yet:

• #783882 on jodconverter by Reiner Herrmann: tell javadoc to stop writing timestamps.
• #783885 on bind9 by Reiner Herrmann: pass -DNO_VERSION_DATE to build system.
• #783688 on serverstats by Chris Lamb: fix permissions.
• #783453 on cdbackup by Chris Lamb: remove build date from version string in binary.
• #783478 on texi2html by Juan Picca: pass --use-date to texi2html.
• #783933 on imagemagick by Reiner Herrmann: remove timestamps from PNG and use deterministic package build date.
• #783515 on memtest86+ by Lunar: fix embedded mtimes and pass -creation-date to genisoimage.
• #783558 on websvn by Chris Lamb: fix permissions.

Improvements to reproducible.debian.net Mattia Rizzolo has been working on compressing logs using gzip to save disk space. The web server would uncompress them on-the-fly for clients which does not accept gzip content. Mattia Rizzolo worked on a new page listing various breakage: missing or bad debbindiff output, missing build logs, unavailable build dependencies. Holger Levsen added a new execution environment to run debbindiff using dependencies from testing. This is required for packages built with GHC as the compiler only understands interfaces built by the same version. debbindiff development Version 17 has been uploaded to unstable. It now supports comparing ISO9660 images, dictzip files and should compare identical files much faster. Documentation update Various small updates and fixes to the pages about PDF produced by LaTeX, DVI produced by LaTeX, static libraries, Javadoc, PE binaries, and Epydoc. Package reviews Known issues have been tagged when known to be deterministic as some might unfortunately not show up on every single build. For example, two new issues have been identified by building with one timezone in April and one in May. RD and help2man add current month and year to the documentation they are producing. 1162 packages have been removed and 774 have been added in the past week. Most of them are the work of proper automated investigation done by Chris West. Summer of code Finally, we learned that both akira and Dhole were accepted for this Google Summer of Code. Let's welcome them! They have until May 25th before coding officialy begins. Now is the good time to help them feel more comfortable by sharing all these little bits of knowledge on how Debian works.

Notice: There were several requests for me to more elaborate on my path to Debian and impact on life so here it is. It's going to be a bit long so anyone who isn't interested in my personal Debian journey should skip it. :) In 2007. I enrolled into Faculty of Mechanical Engineering (at first at Department of Industrial Management and later transfered to Department of Mechatronics - this was possible because first 3 semesters are same for both departments). By the end of same year I was finishing my tasks (consisting primarily of calculations, some small graphical designs and write-ups) when famous virus, called by users "RECYCLER", sent my Windows XP machine into oblivion. Not only it took control over machine and just spawned so many processes that system would crash itself, it actually deleted all from hard-disk before it killed the system entirely. I raged - my month old work, full of precise calculations and a lot of design details, was just gone. I started cursing which was always continued with weeping: "Why isn't there an OS that can whithstand all of viruses, even if it looks like old DOS!". At that time, my roommate was my cousin who had used Kubuntu in past and currently was having SUSE dual-booted on his laptop. He called me over, started talking about this thing called Linux and how it's different but de facto has no viruses. Well, show me this Linux and my thought was, it's probably so ancient and not used that it probably looks like from pre Windows 3.1 era, but when SUSE booted up it had so much more beautiful UI look (it was KDE, and compared to XP it looked like the most professional OS ever). So I was thrilled, installed openSUSE, found some rough edges (I knew immediately that my work with professional CAD systems will not be possible on Linux machines) but overall I was bought. After that he even talked to me about distros. Wait, WTF distros?! So, he showed me distrowatch.com. I was amazed. There is not only a better OS then Windows - there where dozens, hundreds of them. After some poking around I installed Debian KDE - and it felt great, working better then openSUSE but now I was as most newbies, on fire to try more distros. So I was going around with Fedora, Mandriva, CentOS, Ubuntu, Mint, PCLinuxOS and in beginning of 2008 I stumbled upon Debian docs which where talking about GNU and GNU Manifesto. To be clear, I was always as a high-school kid very much attached to idea of freedom but started loosing faith by faculty time (Internet was still not taking too much of time here, youth still spent most of the day outside). So the GNU Manifesto was really a big thing for me and Debian is a social bastion of freedom. Debian (now with GNOME2) was being installed on my machine. As all that hackerdom in Debian was around I started trying to dig up some code. I never ever read a book on coding (until this day I still didn't start and finish one) so after a few days I decided to code tetris in C++ with thought that I will finish it in two days at most (the feeling that you are powerful and very bright person) - I ended it after one month in much pain. So instead I learned about keeping Debian system going on, and exploring some new packages. I got thrilled over radiotray, slimvolley (even held a tournament in my dorm room), started helping on #debian, was very active in conversation with others about Debian and even installed it on few laptops (I became de facto technical support for users of those laptops :D ). Then came 2010 which with negative flow that came in second half of 2009, started to crush me badly. I was promised to go to Norway, getting my studies on robotics and professor lied (that same professor is still on faculty even after he was caught in big corruption scandal over buying robots - he bought 15 years old robots from UK, although he got money from Norway to buy new ones). My relationship came to hard end and had big emotional impact on me. I fell a year on faculty. My father stopped financing me and stopped talking to me. My depression came back. Alcohol took over me. I was drunk every day just not to feel anything. Then came the end of 2010, I somehow got to the information that DebConf will be in Banja Luka. WHAT?! DebConf in city where I live. I got into #debconf and in December 2010/January 2011 I became part of the famous "local local organizers". I was still getting hammered by alcohol but at least I was getting out of depression. IIRC I met Holger and Moray in May, had a great day (a drop of rakia that was too much for all of us) and by their way of behaving there was something strange. Beatiful but strange. Both were sending unique energy of liberty although I am not sure they were aware of it. Later, during DebConf I felt that energy from almost all Debian people, which I can't explain. I don't feel it today - not because it's not there, it's because I think I integrated so much into Debian community that it's now a natural feeling which people here, that are close to me are saying that they feel it when I talk about Debian. DebConf time in Banja Luka was awesome - firstly I met Phil Hands and Andrew McMillan which were a crazy team, local local team was working hard (I even threw up during the work in Banski Dvor because of all heat and probably not much of sleep due to excitement), met also crazy Mexican Gunnar (aren't all Mexicans crazy?), played Mao (never again, thank you), was hanging around smart but crazy people (love all) from which I must notice Nattie (a bastion of positive energy), Christian Perrier (which had coordinated our Serbian translation effort), Steve Langasek (which asked me to find physiotherapist for his co-worker Mathias Klose, IIRC), Zach (not at all important guy at that time), Luca Capello (who gifted me a swirl on my birthday) and so many others that this would be a post for itself just naming them. During DebConf it was also a bit of hard time - my grandfather died on 6th July and I couldn't attend the funeral so I was still having that sadness in my heart, and Darjan Prtic, a local team member that came from Vienna, committed suicide on my birthday (23 July). But DebConf as conference was great, but more importantly the Debian community felt like a family and Meike Reichle told me that it was. The night it finished, me and Vedran Novakovic cried. A lot. Even days after, I was getting up in the morning having the feeling I need something to do for DebConf. After a long time I felt alive. By the end of year, I adopted package from Clint Adams and Moray became my sponsor. In last quarter of 2011 and beginning of 2012, I (as part of LUG) held talks about Linux, had Linux installation in Computer Center for the first time ever, and installed Debian on more machines. Now fast forwarding with some details - I was also on DebConf13 in Switzerland, met some great new friends such as Tincho and Santiago (and many many more), Santiago was also my roommate in Portland on the previous DebConf. In Switzerland I had really great and awesome time. Year 2014 - I was also at DebConf14, maintain a bit more packages and have applied for DD, met some new friends among which I must put out Apollon Oikonomopoulos and Costas Drogos which friendship is already deep for such a short time and I already know that they are life-long friends. Also thanks to Steve Langasek, because without his help I wouldn't be in Portland with my family and he also gave me Arduino. :) 2015. - I am currently at my village residence, have a 5 years of working experince as developer due to Debian and still a lot to go, learn and do but my love towards Debian community is by magnitude bigger then when I thought I love it at most. I am also going through my personal evolution and people from Debian showed me to fight for what you care, so I plan to do so. I can't write all and name all the people that I met, and believe me when I say that I remember most and all of you impacted my life for which I am eternally grateful. Debian, and it's community effect literally saved my life, spring new energy into me and changed me for better. Debian social impact is far bigger then technical, and when you know that Debian is a bastion of technical excellence - you can maybe picture the greatness of Debian. Some of greatest minds are in Debian but most important isn't the sheer amount of knowledge but the enormous empathy. I just hope I can in future show to more people what Debian is and to find all lost souls as me to give them the hope, to show them that we can make world a better place and that everyone is capable to live and do what they love. P.S. I am still hoping and waiting to see Bdale writing a book about Debian's history to this day - in which I think many of us would admire the work done by project members, laugh about many situations and have fun reading a book about project that was having nothing to do but fail and yet it stands stronger then ever with roots deep into our minds.

Who is going to report bug #777777? :-)

Martin Pitt reported Debian bug #770000 on Tuesday November 18th, against the release.debian.org pseudo-package. Bug #760000 was reported as of August 30th: so there have been 10,000 bugs reported in 3 months minus 12 days. The bug rate increased quite significantly during the last weeks. We can suspect this is related to the release and the freeze (that triggers many unblock requests) I find it interesting that this bug is directly related to the release, directly related to systemd and originated from one of the systemd packages maintainers, if I'm right. So, I'll take this opportunity to publicly thank all people who have brought the systemd packages to what they are now, whether or not they're still maintaining the package. We've all witnessed that Debian if facing a strong social issue nowadays and I'm very deeply sad about this. I hope we'll be able to go through this without losing too many brilliant contributors, as it happened recently. Please prove me right and do The Right Thing for me to be able to continue this silly "round bug number" contest and still believe that, some day, bug #1000000 will really happen and I'm still there to witness it. Ah, and by the way, systemd bloody works on my system. I can't even remember when I switched to it. It Just Worked.

Ren Mayorga reported Debian bug #760000 on Saturday August 30th, against the pyfribidi package. Bug #750000 was reported as of May 31th: nearly exactly 3 months for 10,000 bugs. The bug rate increased a little bit during the last weeks, probably because of the freeze approaching. We're therefore getting more clues about the time when bug #800000 for which we have bets. will be reported. At current rate, this should happen in one year. So, the current favorites are Knuth Posern or Kartik Mistry. Still, David Pr vot, Andreas Tille, Elmar Heeb and Rafael Laboissiere have their chances, too, if the bug rate increases (I'll watch you guys: any MBF by one of you will be suspect...:-)).

Just in case some of my free software friends would care and try understanding why I'm currently not attending my first DebConf since 2004... Starting tomorrow 07:00am EST (so, 22:00 PST for Debconfers), I'll be running the "TDS" race of the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc races. Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc (UTMB) is one of the world famous long distance moutain trail races. It takes places in Chamonix, just below the Mont-Blanc, France's and Europe's highest moutain. The race is indeed simple : "go around the Mont-Blanc in a big circle, 160km long, with 10,000 meters positive climb cumulated on the climb of about 10 high passes between 2000 and 2700 meters altitude". "My" race is a shortened version of UTMB that does half of the full loop, from Courmayeur in Italy (just "the other side" of Mont-Blanc, from Chamonix) and goes back to Chamonix. It is "only" 120 kilometers long with 7200 meters of positive climb. Some of these are however know as more difficult than UTMB itself. Many firsts for me in this race : first "over 100km", first "over 24 hours running". Still, I trained hard for this, achieved a very though race in early July (60km, 5000m climb) with a very good result, and I expect to make it well. Top runners complete this in 17 hours.....last arrivals are expected after 33 hours "running" (often fast walking, indeed). I plan to achieve the race in 28 hours but, indeed, I have no idea..:-) So, in case you're boring in a night hacklab, or just want to draw your attention out of IRC, or don't have any package to polish...or just want to have a thought for an old friend, you can try to use the following link and follow all this live : http://utmb.livetrail.net/coureur.php?rech=6384 =en Race start : 7am EST, Wednesday Aug 27th. bubulle arrival: Thursday Aug. 28th, between 10am and 4pm (best projection is 11am). And there will be cheese at pit stops....

This is time again for my annual report about the number of developers per country. This is now the sixth edition of this report. Former editions:

• July 2013
• June 2012
• June 2011
• August 2010
• October 2009

So, here we are with the July 2014 version, sorted by the ratio of *active* developers per million population for each country.

Act: number of active developers
Dev: total number of developers
A/M: number of active devels per million pop.
D/M: number of devels per million pop.
2009: rank in 2009
2010: rank in 2010
2011: rank in 2011 (June)
2012: rank in 2012 (June)
2013: rank in 2012 (July)
2014: rank now

Code	Name	Population	Act Dev	Dev	Act/Million	Dev/Million	2009	2010	June 2011	June 2012	July 2013	July 2014
fi	Finland	5259250	19	31	3,61	5,89	1	1	1	1	1	1
ie	Ireland	4670976	13	17	2,78	3,64	13	9	6	2	2	2
nz	New Zealand	4331600	11	15	2,54	3,46	4	3	5	7	7	3	*
mq	Martinique	396404	1	1	2,52	2,52			3	4	4	4
se	Sweden	9088728	22	37	2,42	4,07	3	6	7	5	5	5
ch	Switzerland	7870134	19	29	2,41	3,68	2	2	2	3	3	6	*
no	Norway	4973029	11	14	2,21	2,82	5	4	4	6	6	7	*
at	Austria	8217280	18	29	2,19	3,53	6	8	10	10	10	8	*
de	Germany	81471834	164	235	2,01	2,88	7	7	9	9	8	9	*
lu	Luxemburg	503302	1	1	1,99	1,99	8	5	8	8	9	10	*
fr	France	65350000	101	131	1,55	2	12	12	11	11	11	11
au	Australia	22607571	32	60	1,42	2,65	9	10	12	12	12	12
be	Belgium	11071483	14	17	1,26	1,54	10	11	13	13	13	13
uk	United-Kingdom	62698362	77	118	1,23	1,88	14	14	14	14	14	14
nl	Netherlands	16728091	18	40	1,08	2,39	11	13	15	15	15	15
ca	Canada	33476688	34	63	1,02	1,88	15	15	17	16	16	16
dk	Denmark	5529888	5	10	0,9	1,81	17	17	16	17	17	17
es	Spain	46754784	34	56	0,73	1,2	16	16	19	18	18	18
it	Italy	59464644	36	52	0,61	0,87	23	22	22	19	19	19
hu	Hungary	10076062	6	12	0,6	1,19	18	25	26	20	24	20	*
cz	Czech Rep	10190213	6	6	0,59	0,59	21	20	21	21	20	21	*
us	USA	313232044	175	382	0,56	1,22	19	21	25	24	22	22
il	Israel	7740900	4	6	0,52	0,78	24	24	24	25	23	23
hr	Croatia	4290612	2	2	0,47	0,47	20	18	18	26	25	24	*
lv	Latvia	2204708	1	1	0,45	0,45	26	26	27	27	26	25	*
bg	Bulgaria	7364570	3	3	0,41	0,41	25	23	23	23	27	26	*
sg	Singapore	5183700	2	2	0,39	0,39				33	33	27	*
uy	Uruguay	3477778	1	2	0,29	0,58	22	27	28	28	28	28
pl	Poland	38441588	11	15	0,29	0,39	29	29	30	30	30	29	*
jp	Japan	127078679	36	52	0,28	0,41	30	28	29	29	29	30	*
lt	Lithuania	3535547	1	1	0,28	0,28	28	19	20	22	21	31	*
gr	Greece	10787690	3	4	0,28	0,37	33	38	34	35	35	32	*
cr	Costa Rica	4301712	1	1	0,23	0,23	31	30	31	31	31	33	*
by	Belarus	9577552	2	2	0,21	0,21	35	36	39	39	32	34	*
ar	Argentina	40677348	8	10	0,2	0,25	34	33	35	32	37	35	*
pt	Portugal	10561614	2	4	0,19	0,38	27	32	32	34	34	36	*
sk	Slovakia	5477038	1	1	0,18	0,18	32	31	33	36	36	37	*
rs	Serbia	7186862	1	1	0,14	0,14					38	38
tw	Taiwan	23040040	3	3	0,13	0,13	37	34	37	37	39	39
br	Brazil	192376496	18	21	0,09	0,11	36	35	38	38	40	40
cu	Cuba	11241161	1	1	0,09	0,09		38	41	41	41	41
co	Colombia	45566856	4	5	0,09	0,11	41	44	46	47	46	42	*
kr	South Korea	48754657	4	6	0,08	0,12	39	39	42	42	42	43	*
gt	Guatemala	13824463	1	1	0,07	0,07					43	44	*
ec	Ecuador	15007343	1	1	0,07	0,07		40	43	43	45	45
cl	Chile	16746491	1	2	0,06	0,12	42	41	44	44	47	46	*
za	South Africa	50590000	3	10	0,06	0,2	38	48	48	48	48	47	*
ru	Russia	143030106	8	9	0,06	0,06	43	42	47	45	49	48	*
mg	Madagascar	21281844	1	1	0,05	0,05	44	37	40	40	50	49	*
ro	Romania	21904551	1	2	0,05	0,09	45	43	45	46	51	50	*
ve	Venezuela	28047938	1	1	0,04	0,04	40	45	50	49	44	51	*
my	Malaysia	28250000	1	1	0,04	0,04			49	50	52	52
pe	Peru	29907003	1	1	0,03	0,03	46	46	51	51	53	53
tr	Turkey	74724269	2	2	0,03	0,03	47	47	52	52	54	54
ua	Ukraine	45134707	1	1	0,02	0,02	48	53	58	59	55	55
th	Thailand	66720153	1	2	0,01	0,03	50	50	54	54	56	56
eg	Egypt	80081093	1	3	0,01	0,04	51	51	55	55	57	57
mx	Mexico	112336538	1	1	0,01	0,01	49	49	53	53	58	58
cn	China	1344413526	10	14	0,01	0,01	53	53	57	56	59	59
in	India	1210193422	8	9	0,01	0,01	52	52	56	57	60	60
sv	El Salvador	7066403	0	1	0	0,14			36	58	61	61
			969	1561	62,08%

A few interesting facts:

• New Zealand bumps from rank 7 to rank 3, thanks to one new active developer
• Switzerland loses one developer and goes donw to rank 6
• Norway also slightly goes down by losing one developer
• With two more developers, Austria climbs up to rank 8 and overtakes Germany...;-)
• Hungary climbs a little bit by gaining one developer
• Singapore doubles its number of developers from 1 to 2 and bumps from 33 to 27
• One rank up too for Poland that gained one developer
• Down to rank 31 for Lithuania by losing one developer
• Up to rank 32 for Greece with 4 developers instead of 3
• Argentina goes up by havign two more developers (it lost 2 last year)
• Up from 46 to 42 for Colombia by winning one more developer
• One more developer and Russia climps from 49 to 48
• One less for Venezuela that has only one developer left...:-(
• No new country this year. Less movement towards "the universal OS"?
• We have 12 more active Debian developers and 26 more developers overall. Less progression than last year
• The ratio of active developers increases is nearly stable though slightly decreasing

Dog, long time since I blogged about my running activities. Apparently, I didn't since.....I posted a summary for 2013. So, well, that will be a long update as many things happened during the first half of 2014 when it comes at running, for me. January: I was recovering from a fatigue fracture injury inherited from last races in 2013. As a consequence, I resumed running only on Jan 7th. Therefore I cancelled my participation to the "Semi Raid 28", an night orienteering raid of about 50-60km in southern neighbourhood of Paris. Instead, I actually offerred my help to organizers in collecting orienteering signs after the race (the longest one : 120km). So, I ended up spending over 24 hours running in woods and hunting down hidden signs with the same information than runners. My only advantage was that I was able to use my car to go from one point to another. Still, I ended up running over 70km in many small parts, often alone in the dark woods with my headlamp, on very muddy areas...and collecting nearly 80 huge signs. February: Everything was going well and I for instance ran a great half-marathon in Bullion (south of Paris) in 1h3821" (great for a quite hilly race)....until I twisted my left ankle while running back from work. A quite severe twist, though no bone damage, thankfully. I had to stop running, again, for 3 years. Biking to/from work was the replacement activity.... March: I resumed running on March 10th, one week before a quite difficult trail race in my neighbourhood (30km "only" but up to 800 meters positive climb). That race was a preparation (and a test after the injury) for my 3rd participation to "Paris Ecotrail", a 80km trail race in woods of the South-West area of Paris, ending in the Eiffel Tower area. Indeed, both went very well, though I was very careful with my ankle. I finally broke my record at Ecotrail, finishing the race in 9h08 (to be compared to 9h36 last year and 11h15 the year before). April: Paris marathon was scheduled one week after Ecotrail. Everybody will tell you that running a marathon one week after a 80km race is kinda crazy.....which is why I made it..:-). That was my 3rd Paris marathon and my 12th marathon overall. However, this year, no record in sight. The challenge was running the marathon....dressed as SpongeBob (you know me, right?). I actually had great fun doing that and was happy to get zillions of cheering all over the race, from the crowd. I finally completed the race in 4h30, which is, after all, not that far from the time of my very first marathon (4h12). The only drawback was that the succession of quite very long distance runs made my left knee suffer as it never happened before. As a consequence, I (again) had to stop running for nearly one month before we found that I was quite sensitive to pronation, which the succession of long and slow races made worse. May: so finally afterthese (very) long weeks, I could gradually resume running, which finally culminated in mid-May with the 50km race "trail des Cerfs", in the Rambouillet Forest, closed to our place. This quite long but not too difficult trail race ("only" 800 meters positive climb overall) was completed in 5h16, which was completely unexpected, given the low training during the previous weeks. June: no race during that month. The entire month was focused on preparing the Montagn'hard race of July 5th: so several training sessions with a lot of climbing either by running or by fast walking (nordic style) as well as downhill run training (always important for moutain trail). July: the second "big peak" of my 2014 season was scheduled for July 5th: "La Montagn'hard", a moutain trail race close to Les Contamines in the neighbourhood of Chamonix, the french moutaineering Mekkah. "Only" 60 kilometers....but close to 5000 meters positive climb. Montagn'hard is among the thoughest moutain trail races in France and therefore a "must do" for trail runners. This race week-end includes also a 105km ultra-race, which is often said to be as hard, even maybe harder, than the very famous "Ultra Trail du Mont-Blanc" trail in Chamonix. Still, for my second only season in moutain trail running, I decided to be "wise" and stick with the "medium" version (after all, my experience, as of now with moutain trails were only two quite "short" ones). Needless to say, it has indeed been a GREAT race. The environment is wonderful ("Miage" side of the Mont-Blanc range), the race goes through great place (Col de Tricot, noticeably) and I made a great result by finishing80th out of 325+ runners, in 12h18, while my target time was around 13 hours. This is where I am now. Nearly one month after Montagn'hard, I'm deeply training for my next Big Goal: The "Sur la Trace des Ducs de Savoie" or "TDS", one of the 4 races of the Ultra Trail du Mont-Blanc week, in end August (during DebConf): 120km, nearly 7500m positive climp, between Courmayeur and Chamonix, through several passes, up to 2600m height. Yet another challenge: my first "over 24h" race, with a full night out in the moutains. You'll certainly hear again from me about that...:-)

Dog, long time since I blogged about my running activities. Apparently, I didn't since...... So, well, that will be a long update as many things happened during the first half of 2014 when it comes at running, for me. January: I was recovering from a fatigue fracture injury inherited from last races in 2013. As a consequence, I resumed running only on Jan 7th. Therefore I cancelled my participation to the "Semi Raid 28", an night orienteering raid of about 50-60km in southern neighbourhood of Paris. Instead, I actually offerred my help to organizers in collecting orienteering signs after the race (the longest one : 120km). So, I ended up spending over 24 hours running in woods and hunting down hidden signs with the same information than runners. My only advantage was that I was able to use my car to go from one point to another. Still, I ended up running over 70km in many small parts, often alone in the dark woods with my headlamp, on very muddy areas...and collecting nearly 80 huge signs. February: Everything was going well and I for instance ran a great half-marathon in Bullion (south of Paris) in 1h3821" (great for a quite hilly race)....until I twisted my left ankle while running back from work. A quite severe twist, though no bone damage, thankfully. I had to stop running, again, for 3 years. Biking to/from work was the replacement activity.... March: I resumed running on March 10th, one week before a quite difficult trail race in my neighbourhood (30km "only" but up to 800 meters positive climb). That race was a preparation (and a test after the injury) for my 3rd participation to "Paris Ecotrail", a 80km trail race in woods of the South-West area of Paris, ending in the Eiffel Tower area. Indeed, both went very well, though I was very careful with my ankle. I finally broke my record at Ecotrail, finishing the race in 9h08 (to be compared to 9h36 last year and 11h15 the year before). April: Paris marathon was scheduled one week after Ecotrail. Everybody will tell you that running a marathon one week after a 80km race is kinda crazy.....which is why I made it..:-). That was my 3rd Paris marathon and my 12th marathon overall. However, this year, no record in sight. The challenge was running the marathon....dressed as SpongeBob (you know me, right?). I actually had great fun doing that and was happy to get zillions of cheering all over the race, from the crowd. I finally completed the race in 4h30, which is, after all, not that far from the time of my very first marathon (4h12). The only drawback was that the succession of quite very long distance runs made my left knee suffer as it never happened before. As a consequence, I (again) had to stop running for nearly one month before we found that I was quite sensitive to pronation, which the succession of long and slow races made worse. May: so finally afterthese (very) long weeks, I could gradually resume running, which finally culminated in mid-May with the 50km race "trail des Cerfs", in the Rambouillet Forest, closed to our place. This quite long but not too difficult trail race ("only" 800 meters positive climb overall) was completed in 5h16, which was completely unexpected, given the low training during the previous weeks. June: no race during that month. The entire month was focused on preparing the Montagn'hard race of July 5th: so several training sessions with a lot of climbing either by running or by fast walking (nordic style) as well as downhill run training (always important for moutain trail). July: the second "big peak" of my 2014 season was scheduled for July 5th: "La Montagn'hard", a moutain trail race close to Les Contamines in the neighbourhood of Chamonix, the french moutaineering Mekkah. "Only" 60 kilometers....but close to 5000 meters positive climb. Montagn'hard is among the thoughest moutain trail races in France and therefore a "must do" for trail runners. This race week-end includes also a 105km ultra-race, which is often said to be as hard, even maybe harder, than the very famous "Ultra Trail du Mont-Blanc" trail in Chamonix. Still, for my second only season in moutain trail running, I decided to be "wise" and stick with the "medium" version (after all, my experience, as of now with moutain trails were only two quite "short" ones). Needless to say, it has indeed been a GREAT race. The environment is wonderful ("Miage" side of the Mont-Blanc range), the race goes through great place (Col de Tricot, noticeably) and I made a great result by finishing80th out of 3250+ runners, in 12h18, while my target time was around 13 hours. This is where I am now. Nearly one month after Montagn'hard, I'm deeply training for my next Big Goal: The "Sur la Trace des Ducs de Savoie" or "TDS", one of the 4 races of the Ultra Trail du Mont-Blanc week, in end August (during DebConf): 120km, nearly 7500m positive climp, between Courmayeur and Chamonix, through several passes, up to 2600m height. Yet another challenge: my first "over 24h" race, with a full night out in the moutains. You'll certainly hear again from me about that...:-)

This is time again for my annual report about the number of developers per country. This is now the sixth edition of this report. Former editions:

• July 2013
• June 2012
• June 2011
• August 2010
• October 2009

So, here we are with the July 2014 version, sorted by the ratio of *active* developers per million population for each country.

Act: number of active developers
Dev: total number of developers
A/M: number of active devels per million pop.
D/M: number of devels per million pop.
2009: rank in 2009
2010: rank in 2010
2011: rank in 2011 (June)
2012: rank in 2012 (June)
2013: rank in 2012 (July)
2014: rank now

Code	Name	Population	Act Dev	Dev	Act/Million	Dev/Million	2009	2010	June 2011	June 2012	July 2013	July 2014
fi	Finland	5259250	19	31	3,61	5,89	1	1	1	1	1	1
ie	Ireland	4670976	13	17	2,78	3,64	13	9	6	2	2	2
nz	New Zealand	4331600	11	15	2,54	3,46	4	3	5	7	7	3	*
mq	Martinique	396404	1	1	2,52	2,52			3	4	4	4
se	Sweden	9088728	22	37	2,42	4,07	3	6	7	5	5	5
ch	Switzerland	7870134	19	29	2,41	3,68	2	2	2	3	3	6	*
no	Norway	4973029	11	14	2,21	2,82	5	4	4	6	6	7	*
at	Austria	8217280	18	29	2,19	3,53	6	8	10	10	10	8	*
de	Germany	81471834	164	235	2,01	2,88	7	7	9	9	8	9	*
lu	Luxemburg	503302	1	1	1,99	1,99	8	5	8	8	9	10	*
fr	France	65350000	101	131	1,55	2	12	12	11	11	11	11
au	Australia	22607571	32	60	1,42	2,65	9	10	12	12	12	12
be	Belgium	11071483	14	17	1,26	1,54	10	11	13	13	13	13
uk	United-Kingdom	62698362	77	118	1,23	1,88	14	14	14	14	14	14
nl	Netherlands	16728091	18	40	1,08	2,39	11	13	15	15	15	15
ca	Canada	33476688	34	63	1,02	1,88	15	15	17	16	16	16
dk	Denmark	5529888	5	10	0,9	1,81	17	17	16	17	17	17
es	Spain	46754784	34	56	0,73	1,2	16	16	19	18	18	18
it	Italy	59464644	36	52	0,61	0,87	23	22	22	19	19	19
hu	Hungary	10076062	6	12	0,6	1,19	18	25	26	20	24	20	*
cz	Czech Rep	10190213	6	6	0,59	0,59	21	20	21	21	20	21	*
us	USA	313232044	175	382	0,56	1,22	19	21	25	24	22	22
il	Israel	7740900	4	6	0,52	0,78	24	24	24	25	23	23
hr	Croatia	4290612	2	2	0,47	0,47	20	18	18	26	25	24	*
lv	Latvia	2204708	1	1	0,45	0,45	26	26	27	27	26	25	*
bg	Bulgaria	7364570	3	3	0,41	0,41	25	23	23	23	27	26	*
sg	Singapore	5183700	2	2	0,39	0,39				33	33	27	*
uy	Uruguay	3477778	1	2	0,29	0,58	22	27	28	28	28	28
pl	Poland	38441588	11	15	0,29	0,39	29	29	30	30	30	29	*
jp	Japan	127078679	36	52	0,28	0,41	30	28	29	29	29	30	*
lt	Lithuania	3535547	1	1	0,28	0,28	28	19	20	22	21	31	*
gr	Greece	10787690	3	4	0,28	0,37	33	38	34	35	35	32	*
cr	Costa Rica	4301712	1	1	0,23	0,23	31	30	31	31	31	33	*
by	Belarus	9577552	2	2	0,21	0,21	35	36	39	39	32	34	*
ar	Argentina	40677348	8	10	0,2	0,25	34	33	35	32	37	35	*
pt	Portugal	10561614	2	4	0,19	0,38	27	32	32	34	34	36	*
sk	Slovakia	5477038	1	1	0,18	0,18	32	31	33	36	36	37	*
rs	Serbia	7186862	1	1	0,14	0,14					38	38
tw	Taiwan	23040040	3	3	0,13	0,13	37	34	37	37	39	39
br	Brazil	192376496	18	21	0,09	0,11	36	35	38	38	40	40
cu	Cuba	11241161	1	1	0,09	0,09		38	41	41	41	41
co	Colombia	45566856	4	5	0,09	0,11	41	44	46	47	46	42	*
kr	South Korea	48754657	4	6	0,08	0,12	39	39	42	42	42	43	*
gt	Guatemala	13824463	1	1	0,07	0,07					43	44	*
ec	Ecuador	15007343	1	1	0,07	0,07		40	43	43	45	45
cl	Chile	16746491	1	2	0,06	0,12	42	41	44	44	47	46	*
za	South Africa	50590000	3	10	0,06	0,2	38	48	48	48	48	47	*
ru	Russia	143030106	8	9	0,06	0,06	43	42	47	45	49	48	*
mg	Madagascar	21281844	1	1	0,05	0,05	44	37	40	40	50	49	*
ro	Romania	21904551	1	2	0,05	0,09	45	43	45	46	51	50	*
ve	Venezuela	28047938	1	1	0,04	0,04	40	45	50	49	44	51	*
my	Malaysia	28250000	1	1	0,04	0,04			49	50	52	52
pe	Peru	29907003	1	1	0,03	0,03	46	46	51	51	53	53
tr	Turkey	74724269	2	2	0,03	0,03	47	47	52	52	54	54
ua	Ukraine	45134707	1	1	0,02	0,02	48	53	58	59	55	55
th	Thailand	66720153	1	2	0,01	0,03	50	50	54	54	56	56
eg	Egypt	80081093	1	3	0,01	0,04	51	51	55	55	57	57
mx	Mexico	112336538	1	1	0,01	0,01	49	49	53	53	58	58
cn	China	1344413526	10	14	0,01	0,01	53	53	57	56	59	59
in	India	1210193422	8	9	0,01	0,01	52	52	56	57	60	60
sv	El Salvador	7066403	0	1	0	0,14			36	58	61	61
			969	1561	62,08%

A few interesting facts:

• New Zealand bumps from rank 7 to rank 3, thanks to one new active developer
• Switzerland loses one developer and goes donw to rank 6
• Norway also slightly goes down by losing one developer
• With two more developers, Austria climbs up to rank 8 and overtakes Germany...;-)
• Hungary climbs a little bit by gaining one developer
• Singapore doubles its number of developers from 1 to 2 and bumps from 33 to 27
• One rank up too for Poland that gained one developer
• Down to rank 31 for Lithuania by losing one developer
• Up to rank 32 for Greece with 4 developers instead of 3
• Argentina goes up by havign two more developers (it lost 2 last year)
• Up from 46 to 42 for Colombia by winning one more developer
• One more developer and Russia climps from 49 to 48
• One less for Venezuela that has only one developer left...:-(
• No new country this year. Less movement towards "the universal OS"?
• We have 12 more active Debian developers and 26 more developers overall. Less progression than last year
• The ratio of active developers increases is nearly stable though slightly decreasing

I recently bought a Suunto Ambit 2 sport watch for my running activities, replacing my good old Garmin ForeRunner 405 whose battery life wasn't longer in sync with the length of some of my runs... Ambit 2 watches have up to 50 hours autonomy, which is great for long races, as well as a barometric altitude recording, which is way more precise that GPS-based altitude recording. Both these are keys for mountain running, indeed... Sadly, Suunto only provides software for Windows and the software is mandatory to use in order to sync the watch logs and settings with Movescount.com, the Suunto web site. Even more: any change to the watch settings has to be done through Movescount, which means that without software, you can't really use the watch....:-( Thankfully, a few people have worked on an "OpenAmbit" project (www.openambit.org) that's aimed at dealing with this and provide Linux users with a way to sync their watches without requiring a Windows computer. And, as you may imagine, I wanted to package it for Debian. Indeed, some packaging work had already been done for Ubuntu, in a PPA, by Dominik Stadler at https://launchpad.net/~dominik-stadler/+archive/dsta-trusty-ppa. Still, I wanted this to go the preferred way of the official archive for the software to get more visibility. Finally, after a few failures (doh, how picky are our FTPmasters about licenses.....which is a Good Thing!), OpenAmbit landed in unstable one week ago. This is as of now the 0.2 version, that doesn't work with the most recent versions of Suunto firmwares. However, a 0.2+20140606 version is on its way and....it works with my watch..:-) So, Yet Another Success for the pkg-running-devel packaging team in Debian, once again proving that Debian developers are also deeply interested in physical activities..:-) And, also, this is a proof that I'm not yet only running and no longer working for Debian....