With all the recent talk about running on Planet Debian I am proud to announce that I did a 10K run today. It took me just about an hour a pace which for Bubulle, Noel etc. is approximately equivalent to standing still but I managed to finish without collapsing in a puddle of sweat and shame, so I consider it an achievement.
It feels like I'm sitting in a roller-coaster wagon. There's probably
too much change going on for me to assimilate naturally. In
particular:
I just wrapped up (well, mostly) one of the toughest Uni semestres. I had
to deal with lots of very time consuming assignments, and then the usual
round of final exams. Even if this semester I got the best marks in my
journey (or shall we say Via Crucis) through University, I still
managed to fail one exam, for the Advanced Networks subject, which is
quite annoying, given I got high marks (even the highest in one case) in
other subjects I really don't master at all. In any case, this is the end
of the pain. The only thing that's left is just one exam and a project
based on GNU/Linux technologies which will basically mean formatting for
prettyness the sysadmin docs we've been collecting at the office during
the last few years. This effort will be nothing to what I've been doing
during the past 18 months, so I'm really relieved to have it past me
already.
Getting rid of studies comes just two weeks before a big change in my
professional career. Friday was my last day at the
Institut Tecnol gic d'Inform tica, after
five and a half fantastic years working with awesome people in a very
friendly atmosphere. I've learned a great deal, and taking this decision
wasn't easy at all. I leave lots of good friends behind, people I really
love, and tomorrow will be difficult to not have them around me. I wish my
ITI ex-workmates the best of luck in these difficult times for everyone in
Spain and specially in the Valencian Country with the massive cuts going
on. I feel the timing for this jump couldn't be better.
Tomorrow, when I get ready to go for work, I won't be leaving home at
all, instead I will just sit where I am right now, at home, and log into some
corporate IRC server. Tomorrow I'll be joining
Collabora, and I'm a mix
of excited, curious and happy about this incredible opportunity. Thanks to
Sjoerd for nags, I might not be
writing this if it wasn't for you!
When I was first approached about this, I thought Collabora was a small
company. But as I looked more into it, I discovered that's not longer the
case, there's many more people than I imagined working there (here!), and
was delighted to see I knew many of them, and many other are well known
members of the major Free Sofware communities. I'll be joining the
sysadmin team to work closely with
Jo Shields. See you tomorrow,
folks. :)
This opportunity to work from home is godsend, given the third bit of
change that'll be happening soon: sometime in late September, Maria and I
should join the ranks of first-time parents, following the baby boom wave
surrounding us. While you can imagine we're really happy about this, we're
also freaking out because this is going to happen in just two months
and a half, and weeks go by really fast lately. So yeah, being able to be at
home with this really small baby will be a big bonus for the incredible
experience we're about to enjoy. We've been both busy with other stuff,
but during the summer we should be focusing on preparing the baby's
arrival. There's a whole lot to do!
Expect my Debian and other Free Software activities to get a hit, of
course. :) If I am normally sleep-deprived, this is going to be the next
level.
I ve recently gone through some of the unpacked source sitting in the lintian lab, and I ve got a few cool stats.
First of all, the types of VCS tags I ve found:
1 vcs-git
123 Vcs-git
6480 Vcs-Git
1 Vcs-GIT
5 VCS-git
86 VCS-Git
17 XS-Vcs-Git
6498 git
196 http
15 https
4 git+ssh
5375 git.debian.org
555 anonscm.debian.org
171 github.com
60 git.debian-maintainers.org
39 gitorious.org
26 git.b9.com
22 git.lxde.org
19 git.kitenet.net
19 git.brad-smith.co.uk
18 git.gag.com
1 code.launchpad.net
1 git.debian.org:
1 anonscm.alioth.debian.org
1 anonscp.debian.org
1 git.debian.org:
2 scm.alioth.debian.org
12 alioth.debian.org
555 anonscm.debian.org
5375 git.debian.org
git://git.debian.org/git/pkg-foo pattern rather then the git://git.debian.org/pkg-foo pattern. Interesting! roughly 78 use /users and roughly 113 use /git/users
I had no idea we had so many complexities in our VCS pointers :)
When I get some more time, I ll go through and figure out which team has the most Git VCS tags :)
porter-* groups, so
that I can fulfill installation requests in various chroots on
Debian porterboxes; this means real DSA members can concentrate on
more important things while still keeping the turnaround quick for
developers who want to debug stuff on exotic architectures.
Reminder for that procedure:
Chroot Install Request Guidelines.kfreebsd-* buildds for a while, I m
still in the wanna-build team, meaning I can take care of give
backs, one of the most common requests on debian-wb-team@. It s
been a while since it s been split up from debian-release@, and
instructions are still available in
wanna-build.txt.
Basically: anything buildd-related goes to
$arch@buildd.debian.org or debian-wb-team@lists.debian.org,
with the sole exception of binNMUs, which are handled by the
release team.testing, and more recently, dealing with unblock
requests during the freeze. While the Debian world is usually
driven by the just do motto, there s one area where one has to
learn to say no, sorry . Hopefully people won t hate us for that,
and we ll find alternative ways (like backporting specific fixes,
or postponing new features until wheezy-backports is open).debian-boot@ stepped up to prepare new
debian-installer releases, I figured I would give a hand there
until somebody more involved with d-i would manage that on the
long run. That s
a
lot
of
heavy
work,
trying to get all involved packages into shape at a given moment,
and getting people to fix their stuff when anything
breaks. Hopefully that ll work out and once CD images are ready, we
should be able to run some more tests on those before officially
publishing d-i beta 1.pettersson (the very nice machine on which images
are built), using the debian-cd account. The intent was to make
sure debian-installer could safely migrate from unstable to
testing. That has happened lately, so images are being prepared.debian-cd. I m also pretty sure having
more people involved in the d-i team would be very nice, especially
if one could find out how to make the whole release process less
insane than it is currently. I guess we could try out new ideas right
after the release; it feels to me that right now is just not the time
to fight the current release process.
Not much progress ATM (most translations are complete and D-I has been
frozen to prepare its release anyway).
Thanks for your work. Your workshop was very interesting and didactic: a relevant discussion between Claire and me for the future of Creatools has emerged from the difficulties you encountered to package creatools. I will try, before the end of the month, to fully package creatools. And for sure, I will contact the debian-med mailing list.Integration of VistA into Debian I had the good chance to directly address some issues of Claudio Zaugg the speaker in the talk Implementing open source Health Information Systems in Low- and Middle Income Countries a practical review directly before mine. It turned out that by using Debian packaged software might help simplifying the issues they had in supporting health care workers in Low- and Middle Income Countries.
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Its been a while I'm using Git as a version control system for my various work whether
it is FOSS related or my professional work. Every time I stumble into a case where I
need to delete an accidentally pushed branch or tag on remote and every time I forget
how I did it last time. Today I did it again and I had to search it again to find a
method. So here it goes this is a note to myself so I won't forget it next time
Deleting a remote branch
git push origin :branchname
git push origin :refs/tags/tagname
git branch -d branchname
git tag -d tagname
On the desktop, I usually rely on Privoxy to strip out ads, tracking resources and other privacy-invading elements. So I was looking for an equivalent solution on Android. Firefox 10 With the current version of Firefox for Android, you can simply install the Adblock Plus extension and it will filter most undesirable elements from webpages. Unfortunately, that extension is not yet available for the latest Firefox Beta, so I had to find another solution. Android Adblock It turns out that there is an Open Source proxy similar to Privoxy (though much more limited in functionality) available for Android: Adblock (also available on the F-Droid Free Software market). However, its default configuration really doesn't block much and so you'll probably want to import a new blocklist as soon as you install it. I used a combination of the Easylist and EasyPrivacy blocklists. Configuring Fennec to use a proxy Unlike its desktop cousin, Firefox for Android (also called Fennec) doesn't expose proxy settings in the user interface. Instead, you have to open the about:config page and configure the following settings manually: Once you're done, test your connection by going into the AdBlock application and turning the proxy off. Then switch back to Firefox and go to a new website. You should get an error message telling you that the proxy is blocking connections. That means it's successfully using your proxy to talk to other websites and not connecting to them directly. (It might also be possible to set this up in the default Android browser or in the Chrome for Android Beta, but I haven't been able to find how. Feel free to leave a comment if you know how it's done.) Bonus tips While you're at it, I highly recommend you turn on the Do Not Track feature in Firefox. Some large sites (like Twitter) have recently committed to turning off individual tracking on web requests which contain this new privacy header. Also, if you want to help move the mobile web away from a WebKit monoculture (remember how bad the Internet Explorer 6 monoculture was for the web?), then please consider joining the Mobile Testdrivers team and help us make Firefox rock on Android!
network.proxy.http = localhost
network.proxy.http_port = 8080
network.proxy.ssl = localhost
network.proxy.ssl_port = 8080
network.proxy.type = 1
Sitting in the airport during a layover on my way back from DebConf is one of
the few times of year that time and motivation come together and routinely
lead me to blog.
Each year's DebConf has been special in its own way. This year at
DebConf 12, in addition to the usual
routine of catching up with all my far-away Debian friends, and of
making new Debian friends in a country I've never been before, I got a
special treat: my first opportunity to experience the practice of
medicine in a foreign country.
Last Saturday after arriving in Managua, I discovered that the very pretty
paving stones making up the hotel walkway were also very slippery when wet,
and the thin rubber strips that had been helpfully put in place to make them
less slippery did not measurably succeed in doing so. So as it was raining
that afternoon (as it does nearly every afternoon this time of year in
Nicaragua), I slipped, and made the critical error of not falling.
Instead, I stopped my slide - as it happens, by using the big toe of my
left foot as if it were a roller skate brake.
I don't recommend this, particularly if, as in my case, you already had it on
your todo list to consult a podiatrist after DebConf regarding an ongoing
feeling of weakness in precisely that part of precisely that foot.
So while everything seemed fine the next day, Monday I woke up early
with excruciating pain in my foot which, having forgotten about the
incident two days prior, seemed to come from nowhere. After favoring
the foot for another day and trying to keep the pain at bay using just
OTC drugs, by Tuesday my foot was quite swollen and a source of concern. So
I visited the clinic on the university campus, where the doctor diagnosed me
with a dropped arch plus cellulitis due to bacteria entering through some
invisible cut.
Conclusion: university campus clinics are equally useless the world over.
But at least in addition to pointlessly prescribing antibiotics, the doctor
also prescribed some anti-inflammatory drugs to help bring the swelling
down.
Nevertheless, my questionable mobility kept both me and Patty from attending
the day trip on Wednesday, which was a real shame as I had been keen to
climb a volcano that day with
my fellow Debian Developers (which in the end didn't happen for anyone, but
that's a story for someone else's blog). Instead I took it easy for the
day at the hotel, together with a few others who had opted not to attend
the day trip, catching up on email and other work and hoping matters would
improve. But by the end of the day the swelling was as bad as ever, if not
worse, and I had no idea what was going on. Was it broken? Was something
dislocated? And so I decided that the following day I would go to the
hospital.
The nearest hospital, as given in the DebConf local information page, is
the
Hospital Militar.
It's a strange sort of thing as an American who remembers the 1980s to be
seeking medical care from a facility operated by the Nicaraguan military; but
accompanied by Fitoria, my native escort from the local
team I had nothing to worry about; and besides, as a frequent international
traveler I long ago learned the secret truth that people are people
everywhere, no matter what flag they were born under. The highlight of the
hospital visit was definitely when a member of the hospital staff, in full
military uniform, shooed me towards a chair instead of standing to talk to
her because "every patient has the right to sit, no matter what country
they're in".
After six x-rays and a doctor's consult, the conclusion was that it's
probably not a broken bone and that it will probably clear up in just a
couple of days with an even-better anti-inflammatory prescription and
taking care of it by not walking on it. And indeed, my foot was already
feeling better by Friday and aside from a little tenderness is now just
about 100%.
There are plenty of other entries on Planet Debian
talking about the conference itself, and I don't think I have much to add to
what's already been said there. But as for Nicaragua, I can conclude that it
must be one of the best countries in the world to break your foot in - between
the help of the hotel staff, the top-notch medical professionals, and above
all the support of the DebConf local team (with a very big thank you again to
Fitoria!), this is one brand of socialized medicine I can appreciate.
Not sure if that will work as I expect, but here as my runs in the
city of Managua, combined in one single map, thanks to OpenRunner:
<script src="http://www.openrunner.com/orservice/inorser-script.php?key=mykey&ser=S03&id=1802807&w=500&h=350&hp=128&k=5&m=0&pa=0&c=0&ts=1342329989" type="text/javascript"></script>
One of the features that I have been asked for multiple times is the
ability to use control@bugs.debian.org commands at
submit@bugs.debian.org time. I have now implemented this with the
following syntax:
Package: foo
Version: 1.0-3
Control: retitle -1 this is the title
Control: severity -1 bleargh
Control: summary -1 0
Control: forward -1 http://bugs.debian.org/nnn
Originally posted by bubulle on Planet Debian, a shell prompt that displays the current git branch, in colour on some terminals, after the current working directory. The following snippet does similar things for mksh users, except it doesn t redefine your prompt but amend it just throw it at the bottom of your ~/.mkshrc before that last line beginning with a colon (copy from /etc/skel/.mkshrc if you haven t done that yet):
function parse_git_branch git branch 2>/dev/null sed -n '/^\* \(.*\)/s//(\1)/p' function amend_prompt_with_git local p q='$(parse_git_branch)' r if [[ $TERM = @(xterm-color xterm screen*) ]]; then if [[ $ PS1:1:1 = $'\r' ]]; then p=$ PS1:0:1 else p=$'\001' PS1=$p$'\r'$PS1 fi q=$p$'\e[1;33m'$p$q$p$'\e[0m'$p fi p=$ PS1%%*( )[#$]*( ) if [[ $p != "$PS1" ]]; then # prompt ends with space + #-or-$ + space, we can amend r=$ PS1: $ #p PS1=$p$q$r fi amend_prompt_with_git unset -f amend_prompt_with_git
The indirection by use of a function is not strictly necessary but allows the use of locals. I took the liberty of adding an asterisk after screen to match the GNU/Linux nonsense of having TERM=screen.xterm or somesuch.
Here's what I found out during the "Packaging with git" talk at
Debconf12. There are certainly cool enhancements. Feel free to share
on Planet.
bubulle@sesostris:~ $ cat .bashrc
# http://lukasrieder.com/2009/07/14/extend-your-bash-ps1.html
parse_git_branch()
git branch 2> /dev/null sed -e '/^[^*]/d' -e 's/* \(.*\)/(\1)/'
# set a fancy prompt (non-color, unless we know we "want" color)
case "$TERM" in
xterm-color xterm screen)
PS1='$ debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot) \[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\[\033[01;33m\]$(parse_git_branch)\[\033[00m\] \$ '
;;
*)
PS1='$ debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot) \u@\h:\w$(parse_git_branch)\$ '
;;
esac
Neil McGovern asked me to add an additional feature to the BTS to
support tracking the current status of attempts at fixing a bug. In
past releases, we've used the nice commenting feature of
bts.turmzimmer.net to keep track of what is going on in a particular
nasty RC bug, who is working on it, and what needs to be done next (or
if everyone can just ignore the bug).
This feature should probably have already been in the BTS to start
with, but now it is. In addition to the existing summary feature,
where you can nominate a message or text to be the summary for a bug,
there is an outlook command, which tracks the current status of the
bug, and behaves in exactly the same way:
outlook 12345 not good
outlook 54321 0
thanks
I'm totally stymied by #54321.
This very nice road was also....climbing a lot: 180m in 3.5km, so 5.1%
average, but sometimes closer to 10%!
At the very end of the road, we however ended....on a fence. It's
apparently guarding the final part of the road where even more fancier
villas seem to be, according to the satellite view..:-).
We tried to use a small path up, but had to stop quite quickly.
(OK, No l is definitely blurry there....blame the tired eyes after
8.7km climbing all the way)
And then, all we had to do was....going down..:-). Being both in a
fairly good shape, that went quite fast. But we both agreed that the
final part, above 12km/h along the highway, with the sun hitting hard,
was quite a challenge.
I really admire those people who happen to run long distance in places
like Managua. I can't even imagine running a marathon here....
GPS trace of what
finally turns out to be my longest run here as of now with 17.5km in
about 1h40.
| Title | La mochila viajera The travelling backpack |
| Publication Type | Broadcast |
| Year of Publication | 2012 |
| Authors | Wolf, G, Bello L, Ram n E, Taleno A, Ortega J |
| Refereed Designation | Non-Refereed |
| Full Text | During DebConf12, and thanks to Fito's kind invitation, a bunch of us were part of a radio program that's transmitted in Managua and Chinandega, La mochila viajera . This program talks about different viewpoints and problematics about migration, seen from the eyes of Nicaraguans, which share quite a bit with us in Mexico But at the same time, are very different. I was invited as part of a research group in UNAM on the topic Communication, trasmigration and emergent systems . To be honest, I'm way behind schedule with the part of the research I should be doing, but here I very roughly describe (part of) the topic I'm interested in. The session was quite interesting. Of course, the reason I'm sending this to the blog is mainly that I want to keep it at hand, but I think some of you might find it interesting. Of course, it is in Spanish, so YMMV ;-) |
| Attachment | Size |
|---|---|
| La mochila viajera, 13 de julio del 2012: Migrantes y software libre | 84.19 MB |
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