I guess I like this quote: 15:26 amaya> did we just release?
15:26 HE> amaya: Yes
15:26 amaya> YAY! And the release announcement is also in Danish! Thanks to me and to Kaare

About my post about the DPL vote Some people have asked me why I voted that way. Here are some pointers. And of course various irc talks, other maillist postings and many other sources


05:19 < helix> I don't know who the hell sune vuorela is, but I love their blog entries


As I am not a DD yet, I don’t have vote rights. That means I cannot vote in the DPL election. The only way I can influence the decision is to influence other people and try to make them vote the right way (or alternatively, just vote what I would have done) Is there a vote sponsorship page anywhere? <big smiley> If anyone got a spare vote, you are most welcome to send in my ballot:
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[2] Choice 1: Wouter Verhelst
[7] Choice 2: Aigars Mahinovs
[2] Choice 3: Gustavo Franco
[1] Choice 4: Sam Hocevar
[5] Choice 5: Steve McIntyre
[6] Choice 6: Raphael Hertzog
[8] Choice 7: Anthony Towns
[4] Choice 8: Simon Richter
[3] Choice 9: None Of The Above
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And yes, jcristau, Myon, Q_ and others - I need to get back to my application.

Anyone wants to join in the Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton fanclub? And these unfortunately aren’t candidates for DeFuBu

In the KDE team we are have too many notforwarded bugs open. Most of these bugs are upstream bugs and feature requests. Many bug reports already fixed upstream, but not yet marked as such. And many that just needs to be located in the KDE Bugzilla. Some of the bugs already fixed upstream is probably by readers of Planet Debian. If the readers of Planet Debian (That’s you), could go quickly thru their bugs and check if it still applies and add a note if it does and else close it with a comment, it would be really really nice. To get a list of all the reported bugs pr email address, you can use the following url: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?submitter=your@email.invalid with your reportbug email inserted. If your bug still applies, it would be very cool if you could find it upstream and mark it forwarded. Our goal is to make the red and the een line much more close than they currently are:
Click for full size Any other help with the bugs is also much appreciated. My hero is still Olivier Vitrat who came out of the blue and is doing a amazing job with pinging and forwarding bugs.

Yesterday evening I got back home from Linuxforum day 2. There was some nice talks, and I saw the Google geek herder fall off the stage. I also got a nice introduction to Qt. Finally I saw a spam fighting deathmatch. Among the serious competitors, a pseudo-icelandic guy also joined in. A short post-presentation (in danish though, but you might get the meaning of it anyway), but you might find the principles. Find it at YouTube. Anyways, there was funny presentations of policyd (with and without the -weight), dspam, annoyance filter, milter and postgrey. As it was most a matter of funny presentation and the technical details were more secondary, it was more a person than a product that won. The winner was Ralf Hildebrandt with .. something (policyd either with or without the -weight).
No open source events without beer, so there was after the spam contest, a couple of nice beer. It was basically a nice Linuxforum - and I am looking forward for next year. But it was also a bit ‘interesting’ if it was possible to get to linux forum, just like yesterday, because some violent criminals and spoiled younsters have tried to set large parts of the streets on fire in Copenhagen. PS.: Comments by anonymous hooligans will not be accepted.

Today I was at the business day at linuxforum. The first exciting thing about the day was if it was possible to actually get there after violent criminals have been ruining Copenhagen all night long. My bus took a detour, but I ended up at the rigth place finally. Today there was talks and some companies have been running their booths. The most interesting talk today was Poul-Henning Kamps talk about varnish. Another interesting topic was how lego tried something new - work with the community around their mindstorms stuff with great success. Tomorrow it is a bit more techie-day where the local LUGs are having booths also, and with exiting talks about Qt programming and a spamfilter deathmatch.

Was Sam a joke-candidate or not ?
I hope that his platform will make the last people think that he is serious. I am not able to vote - but if someone wants to sponsor a ballot for me, I can provide one. I wish good luck to all the candidates - I might start commenting on all the candidates soonish.

Thanks to Ana I am now on debian planet. I have ended up underneath Steve McIntyre, but as I am quite strong, I think I can handle it. Lately on the Debian devel maillist, there has been some flaming about maintainers and when to answer their bugs. I whined a bit about KDE team being a bit overloaded - and suddenly a guy started working on the KDE related bugs. Olivier Vitrat is my current hero for the next couple of days.

Frist! every one has to start blogging once - so this is my attempt. Even if it fails, it is also cooler to be a ex-blogger than not having blogged at all.

Welcome to this 7th issue of the DeFuBu contest, the monthly championship of the funniest bug reported to the Debian BTS. The challengers

• Loic Minier with #407127 (evolution: Dates before 1970 not supported, e.g. for birthdays) and #408989 (epiphany-browser: bugzilla.gnome.org inaccessible)
• Sune Vuorela with #407849 (script for /usr/bin/preloadkde) and #409310 (kmines: Can cheat the timer)
• Josh Triplett with #404915 (iceweasel: Icon resembles booger)
• Jeroen van Wolffelaar with #408424 (apache2: "It works!")
• Florent Bayle with #408524 (If I play piano while my computer starts up, /dev/dsp disappears !)
• Christian Perrier with #408482 (xserver-xorg: please map French Canadian (cf) to Canada (ca) layout)
• Frans Pop with #409018 (base: /etc/ld.so.nohwcap missing)

How the vote has been done Four Debian related people voted for these bugs, Emmanuel Bouthenot, Mohammed Adn ne Trojette, Julien Louis and Jade Alglave. Full ranking Bugs

• #408989 (epiphany-browser: bugzilla.gnome.org inaccessible) (28 points)
• #408524 (If I play piano while my computer starts up, /dev/dsp disappears !) (21 points)
• #407849 (script for /usr/bin/preloadkde) and #408424 (apache2: "It works!") (18 points)
• #407127 (evolution: Dates before 1970 not supported, e.g. for birthdays) (17 points)
• #404915 (iceweasel: Icon resembles booger) and #408482 (xserver-xorg: please map French Canadian (cf) to Canada (ca) layout) (11 points)
• #409310 (kmines: Can cheat the timer) (10 points)
• #409018 (base: /etc/ld.so.nohwcap missing) (10 points)

Challengers

• Loic Minier (45 points with 2 bugs)
• Florent Bayle with (21 points with 1 bug)
• Sune Vuorela (28 points with 2 bugs)
• Jeroen van Wolffelaar (18 points with 1 bug)
• Christian Perrier and Josh Triplett (11 points with 1 bug)
• Frans Pop (10 points with 1 bug)

The winners

• Bug: #408989 (epiphany-browser: bugzilla.gnome.org inaccessible)
• Challenger: Loic Minier
• Bug reporter: Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
• Voter: Emmanuel Bouthenot with two first bugs correct: #408524, #408989

Notes To participate, simply drop me an email with a bug number. About DeFuBu

Welcome to this 6th issue of the DeFuBu contest, the monthly (even if I'm late) championship of the funniest bug reported to the Debian BTS. The challengers

• G rkan Seng n with #270877 (wmaker: I can't swallow windows)
• Christoph Berg with #402976 (espdiff: useless manpage)
• Cyril Brulebois with #403379 (mplayer: segfault while reading an mpeg file)
• Sune Vuorela with #405464 (qt3-dev-tools: QMAKE_INCDIR_QT is wrong in qmake.conf files)

How the vote has been done Three Debian related people voted for these bugs, Mohammed Adn ne Trojette, Pierre Habouzit and Florent Bayle Full ranking Bugs

• #403379 (mplayer: segfault while reading an mpeg file) (6 points)
• #402976 (espdiff: useless manpage) (5 points)
• #405464 (qt3-dev-tools: QMAKE_INCDIR_QT is wrong in qmake.conf files) (4 points)
• #270877 (wmaker: I can't swallow windows) (3 points)

Challengers

• Cyril Brulebois (6 points with 1 bug)
• Christoph Berg (5 points with 1 bug)
• Sune Vuorela (4 points with 1 bug)
• G rkan Seng n (3 points with 1 bug)

The winners

• Bug: #403379 (mplayer: segfault while reading an mpeg file) (6 points)
• Challenger: Cyril Brulebois
• Bug reporter: Aurelien Jarno
• Voter: Florent Bayle with the full good order !

Notes To participate, simply drop me an email with a bug number. About DeFuBu