Time for our bi-monthly post...
Salvo Tomaselli reported the Debian bug
#580000 on Sunday May 2nd, against the kopete package.
Bug #570000 was reported as of February 15th 2010. We're now behind our
"10,000 bugs in 2 months" pace by two weeks, so this
confirms the slowdown in Debian's bug report rate.
I hope this doesn't confirm also the slowdown in Debian's development
rate.
Some of you probably met Knut Yrvin, one of the leaders of
Skolelinux/DebianEdu. But have you met him doing this?
I just published the following in debian-i18n. If you read this on
Planet Debian, please followup on debian-i18n.
The situation for D-I translations is currently the following. It is
not that brilliant, I have to say. And I limit details to "level 1".
In very short:
33 languages are in good shape.
*26 languages are in danger of being deactivated*
More details
The safe side
16 languages are complete:
ar bg cs de es fr ga it ja lt nb pt ru sk th vi14 languages were complete before changes to sublevel 5 and only have 5 fuzzy strings to very seldomly used packages:
ast bn el eo et eu fi gu mr pl sl sq sv tr zh_TW3 languages have a few strings to update in sublevels 1 to 3 but have active translators who will probably easy cope with them:
be nl zh_CNThe unsafe side 12 languages had random updates since lenny but not on a regular basis. These languages are at risk of being deactivated for Squeeze if they are not complete for sublevels 1 and 2:
da gl ko pa ro he hi hu ka pt_BR ml tl8 languages were complete in lenny but had no update since then. These languages are at risk of being deactivated for Squeeze if they are not complete for sublevels 1 and 2: bs ca dz hr id km lv mk ne nn ta wo Other languages are in various situations. Those marked "(P)" are not activated and have nearly no chance to be activated for Squeeze, the exception being Sinhala (si) which is making great progress. The 6 active languages listed below are at risk of being deactivated:
089% uk 1 087% ku 1 086% am 1 083% kk 083% si (P) 2 072% sr 1 069% cy 1 064% is (P) 1 043% ms (P) 1 034% kn (P) 1 025% br (P) 1 015% se 1 014% mg (P) 014% te (P) 2 012% fa (P) 1 009% xh (P) 1 008% ur (P) 1 002% hy (P) 1 000% lo (P)Squeeze release plans have not been made yet but I would say this is time to become aware of the situation and start hunting for translators for "endangered" languages.
Only for running junkies: my route at Paris
marathon.
I use this occasion to congratulate Christelle Daunay,
who broke the French national record for women for the second year in
a row, bringing it to 2h24'22", a world-class performance, after
finishing 3rd in the so famous New York City marathon.
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Upload accepted by organisers.
Upload time has been 3h49'29" (my watch says 27", eh!).
That was a good one, really (actually, I can compare to only 3 as it
was my fourth marathon after Paris and Cologne 2009, plus the
unofficial Rambouillet Forest marathon I ran alone 6 weeks after Paris
2009).
For marathoners around, here are the chronometric data. Please note
that GPS watches tend to overestimate the distance, mostly because of
the jerky way one runs in mass events, as well as geometric
considerations related to the imprecision of GPS (imprecision may be
lateral and thus the line recorded by the watch is often less straight
than the real one). For instance, according to my watch, Paris
marathon was 42.63km long, so an overestimate by nearly 500meters. As
a consequence, the recorded speed of 5'23"/km should be corrected to
5'25". So, times below should be increased by 2 seconds.
...you want to run many. Everybody told me so. Which is why I was
warned when I ran my first one year ago in Paris, I knew I would run
other.
So, on Sunday will be my fourth one and my second Paris Marathon.
So, after 4h10mins in Paris (april 2009), 4h12 in Rambouillet Forest
(all alone in full autonomy mode) and 4h00'49" in Cologne, my target
this time is 3h50.
Weather is announced to be perfect, my physical condition is AFAIK
good, the motivation is very high....my only fear is that I registred
in the "4h target" group (because, back in November, I wasn't
expecting the results I got in February/March in half-marathons). As many people overestimate their target, I
expect to be passing hundreds of runners during the first 5
kilometers, which is not the best way to start....but, hey, Paris
streets are wide enough (except Place de la Bastille, my nightmare....I hope
organizers solved the jam problem there).
Of course, I kinda hope seeing fellow Paris DD's waving giant Debian
swirls, including our wanabee-DPL.....but let's stop dreaming. And
running in a sunny day all across Paris and along river Seine, will be
great again even without Zack. I'll also be missing Ralf and No l who
ran it last year: Ralf is unfortunately suffering from knee problems
and No l is preparing for Mainz marathon (target: 3h??).
Anyway, more news on Sunday afternoon....and let's enjoy a full rest tomorrow!
...would you be so kind to tell me where is the bloody fix for "my" bug in this
mess?
Hopefully my samba co-maintainer will bring the right fix as he's been
involved in solving the issue in Ubuntu..and is by definition more
familiar with the LP infrastructure than me.
But, sure, that one made me mumble quite a bit this morning...
Then read
this and spot your common mistakes..:-)
That post was courtesy of the Smith Project that
just hit its 3rd birthday on Thursday.
Free (virtual) camembert to people who spot the right number of
English errors in this very post, of course.
...where I get paged, SMS'ed, /msg'ed, facebooked, cheek kissed and
non-cheek kissed (once), as
well as piweted (but that's specific to $ family ).
Ah, and I have to bring croissants at work this morning. Tradition. Eh.
In short, I'm turning 31 today. Easy one....this year..:-)
I'm now on my way back from The first miniDebCamp and miniDebconf that
happened from March 13th to March 19th in Khon Kaen, Thailand.
This even was organized locally by a team of very motivated Thai
Debian enthusiasts and contributors, such as Theppitak Karoonboonyanan
(*the* Thai DD), Neutron Soutmun, Kitt Tientanopajai, and all those whose name I'm
not remembering as of now (I hope they won't mind).
The even had kinda the structure of DebConfs, with a few days of "Debcamp"
to begin. See the full
schedule.
We were hosted in Khon Kaen University (KKU), one one the most famous
universities in Thailand, a small "town in town" in a city with a few
hundred thousand inhabitants (dunno exactly). Lodging was done in a
hotel located inside the university. Interestingly, the hotel was also
hosting youg students participating to "Summer Camps" (apparently
training systems to get good school results) gving to all this a very
young atmosphere.
The hacking lab and talks location was a 30-seat room in the
university library, and meals were brought in there very efficiently,
with the very specific way that Thai people have to transport each and
every kind of meal (in small plastic bags closed by rubber).
I arrived only in the 3rd day because I had commitments at home that
made it impossible to me to come for the first day. During these days,
people have been very busy hacking and participating to the Bug
Squashing Party. During that BSP, about 50 bugs have been touched,
without about 15 or so closed.
Other non Thai attendees were Andrew Lee from TW, Paul Wise from AU,
Daiki Ueno and Yukiharu Yabuki from JP. Organizers were expecting some
attendees from neighbouring countries such as Laos, Vietnam or
Cambodia. Unfortunately, none of them could come, including Anousak
Soupavanh, leader of Lao free software localization efforts, who I was
very impatient to meet. Transport difficulties, or visa problems, do
not make things easy in that part of the world.
On Wednesday we had a "DayTrip" as it is common for such event. We
went abotu 50 km away from Khon Kaen, to visit a nice place, close to
a dam lake, and climbed a hill surrounded by a big temple and a giant
Buddha statue. Then we had a wonderful lunch in a fish restaurant in
the very specific Thai way to share stuff: everything is on the table
and you pick your food here and there, at you rconvenience. Of course,
local advice before trying apparently innocent food is always worth it
because the fire might be hidden anywhere (for instance in that soja
plate which I tried and that set my mouth as a burning hell for 20
minutes). The journey ended by a visit of a great temple in Khon Kaen
and, very noticeably by a dinner in a very popular barbecue restaurant
in "all you can eat" style for...100Bath (so, about 2.5 euros). Maybe
only vegetarian people had more trouble enjoying the meal as it was
mostly made of various meat (and sea food).
The talk days were very intense, at least in my opinion. Probably
because I ended up giving four talks, some of them completely
improvised (about IP-over-DNS, which I was using at the hotel and
about which many wanted to learn a little bit more, and GPG keysigning
processes). It turned out that the GPG talk was well received and,
discussing with Paul later on, we agreed that such a talk, mostly
meant to explain the DOs and DON'Ts For good GPG keys signing, could
be a good idea even for Debconfs.
There were also a few talks about local initiatives and efforts to
develop (and not only promote) free software. We have no recordings of
these talks as we were infortunately missing some video recording
installation (maybe next time, Thep) just like the miniConf that was
happening in Panama at about the same time was having.
Due to local regulation on the university network, we had some limitations with
Internet access (some firewalling that for instance was preventing SIP
to work properly, which made a video-conference with a japanese user
group fail, unfurtunately).
The event ended in a round table discussion about ideas to organize
something bigger in the future. The local community in Thailand has
apparently the energy, maybe ressources and local support to be able
to organize a slightly bigger event as first try (somethign like an
Asian DebConf or something similar, targeting mostly Asian
contributors and about 50-100 people. Thailand seems to be a good
target to host such event, with many things being relatively
inexpensive (and not only beer!). And they even think about possibly
hosting a Debconf at some time in the future (actually, Martin Krafft
should also be credited for bringing this idea). That isn't as crazy
as it seems and, provided that potential organizers start involving
themselves in the current Debconfs, everything seems to be possible.
After all, if we look back to 2005, only one person (hello, Safir) was
seriously thinking that Debconf could really happen in Bosnia and
Herzegovina, right?
After this week (followed by 2.5 days of sightseeing in Bangkok for
me, plus a small meeting today with local Thai Linux corporate users
and IT company owners), I feel like the mood in Asia about Debian
development is high and full of potential. The miniconf last year in
Taiwan was already a good success, by establishing a good connection
between people.....we need to keep that alive and, hopefully, there
will be other miniconfs in this part of the world. And, well, if I can
be there, I'll be there.
I'm running again.
No, not running in a bubulle
style; I'm running for DPL. It started as a fairly last-minute decision
because I would hate to see an election with only one candidate, but
then two other people submitted their candidacy right after me.
As I stated in my candidacy
email, I had "a concert" this weekend. Actually, there were three
two-hour performances; two on saturday, one on sunday. Early on, I
also suggested videotaping the performance (using the excellent dvswitch, for which I added
a patch to support crossfading transitions) to the organising group
within the choir, and they liked that. Apart from dvswitch, we used the
theatre's own audio mixing setup (so I wouldn't have to worry about that
too much) and the theatre's intercom system. I'd made some tally lights,
but in the end we were not entirely able to use them, because there were
some issues to be dealt with that meant I couldn't quite get them
working properly.
So on saturday, I was in the theatre pretty early to get everything
set up, did some explanations to the volunteers who would do the actual
recording, drove my dad (who'd done the direction for the video parts)
home, went home, and found my bed at around midnight.
On sunday, I got up fairly early, booted my laptop to update the live
images with some fixes for some issues we'd encountered on saturday,
left for the theatre fairly early again, set up the extra camera
position, found out that one of the laptops was actually running at
100Mbit rather than a gigabit and that therefore the extra camera wasn't
going to work, learned that one of the volunteers for sunday had done
some other camera work for another performance right before that, for
which he'd rented some high-end DV-capable cameras. So we broke down the
two low-end set-ups, set up the high-end cameras, connected them to the
laptops, recalibrated the whitebalance and the diaphragm setting, and
restarted the streams. Then one laptop started failing. Since we had had
to remove one camera anyway, I just replaced it. By that time, I had
about 15 minutes left before sunday's performance would start, so I went
to prepare for that.
After the performance had finished, I found out that something had
gone wrong with the sound of sunday's performance; rather than music, we
only heard crackling all the time. Luckily, the sound had also been
separately recorded to a different medium, and that recording is fine,
so we only need to resync the audio to the video, which should not be a
problem.
All in all, I had an extremely busy weekend. The alert reader will
note that I didn't mention 'food' anywhere in the above paragraphs,
mostly because I hardly ever found the time to eat. But it was also
extremely satisfying. We still have some postprocessing to do, but I
expect I'll put some videos online once we've done that. They're truly
stunning, at times.
And then yesterday I still had to spend some time writing my DPL
platform, and doing some campaigning work. All in all, I didn't find my
bed until approximately 4 AM... oh well.
I look forward to the election time, and hope that I will do well. I
don't need to win, but I'd hope my result will be at least as
good as the last time...
Update: we used the theatre's audio setup,
not video setup -- oops :-)
W00t. Again below 1h45 and beating my best time by more than 2
minutes.
Paris half-marathon was great. Freaking cold (-3 C with a strong
North-East wind) but great weather with the sun in a blue sky.
I didn't see Ralf (and, Ralf, sorry but I was finally wearing an
orange suite..:-)) nor Debian swirls....but, apparently, that wasn't
missing for having a great race. Elisabeth cam along with me to Paris
and I managed to see her (and she manage to spot me) twice: once in
Bastille at km 10 and later on at Charenton at km 14
The interesting challenge now is what to set as goal for the
marathon. Of course, I have to run below 4h (which I missed by 49
seconds in Cologne) but I apparently can do better. I think I'll
be reasonable and set 3h50 and we'll see.
Tomorrow is the day for Paris
half-marathon, the mass half-marathon that is traditionnally run
4-5 weeks before Paris marathon.
This year, I'll run both, so tomorrow, I'll be running in Paris (and
Bois de Vincennes) streets...along with 27,000 other people..., attempting to beat my 1h43'55" record set
in my last (and as of now) only half-marathon, one month ago, in
Bullion. That might be hard as running at one's own pace is easier in
a run with 1,000 runners..:-)
Ralf Treinen told me he might show up around km 7 (place de l'H tel de
Ville). I should be around there around 11h50 as the start is at 10h
and I should probably cross the start line at about 10h15, then run
5mins/km.
So, if you're around eastern Paris and wake up "early" on
Sundays, feel free to come and show me a nice Debian swirl so that I
can run even faster (or less slow). I'll be wearing a black top with
short sleeves and short running pants (not the easies to spot, I
admit). Then try spotting Ralf and have a
beer..:-).
Or should I say *we* are going to Debconf 10?
Last week-end, I booked the whole set of plane tickets for the
Perrier family to fly to USA next summer:
(you were awaiting this one, weren't you?)
Ron Murray reported the Debian bug
#570000 on Monday February 15th, against the gnome-keyring-daemon package.
Bug #560000 was reported as of December 8th 2009. We're behind our
"10,000 bugs in 2 months" pace by one week, so that's a small drop in
the bug reporting rate, this time.
I hope that people remember the Bug #600000
contest. Bets are closed now (the wiki page is still opened for
modifications but I'll revert them if they are late bets).
Being 30,000 bugs away from #600000, it's time to image when that bug
could happen. The current "2 months+1 week/10,000 bugs" says it would happen
around September 10th. With the "2 months/10,000 bugs" that would be
August 15th, just after DebConf 10.
The closest bet as of now seem to be either Miod Vallat
or Kanru Chen. I probably lost already (I did bet June 30th) unless I
imagine a very massive bug filing.
Too bad Matt Arnold, Thomas Preudhomme, Nicolau
Werneck and Odd Henriksen, you already lost!
This year, at DebConf 10, I'll very probably have the pride to attend the conference
along with my 22 y.o. son, Jean-Baptiste.
JB began a 3 year cycle to graduate in electronics and industrial
computing at Polytech'Paris-UPMC
and is increasingly becoming more and more interested in Linux,
programming and particularly low-level programming in embedded devices
(as far as I can understand this stuff). As one can see, he's on his
way to become a much clever geek than his dad.
It then became natural for him to consider attending Debconf even
though he's not (yet) involved in Debian.
So, you folks will have to suffer having two bubulles instead of
one. That should make a nice picture if Bdale and Elisabeth are there
too..:-)
See you in NYC!
I recently upgraded a critical file server at work, from etch to
lenny. With that upgrade, samba version was bumped from 3.0.24 to
3.2.5.
We were then hit by a quite severe bug where files ACLs are messed up
on Excel files after saving the files (upstream
#4308, fixed upstream in 3.2.8).
I will probably consider fixing the official Lenny packages (there is
no bug reported about this in Debian, though) along with a few other
quite severe ACL-related bugs (Mathieu Parent, who maintains ctdb,
pointed me to a few such bugs).
However, I couldn't wait for such a long time and backporting the fix
for #4308 isn't completely straightforward. So, I decided to upgrade
our server to the latest Samba 3.2 version, namely 3.2.15 (upgrading
to 3.4 series could bring other kind of regressions and we have no time
to properly test everything...users already have their guns handy).
This is where the Debian
Samba packaging team unofficial repository becomes handy. It is
meant as as service to users who want to run the very latest samba
code and have the same packaging choices we have in supported Debian releases. We
already had 3.2.14 there but I never took time to update to
3.2.15. This is done now.
Moreover, as our production server uses the amd64 architecture, these
unofficial backports are now available for both i386 (my usual build
machine) and amd64.
Using this repository is as easy as:
deb http://pkg-samba.alioth.debian.org/packages lenny-backports/ deb-src http://pkg-samba.alioth.debian.org/packages lenny-backports/Please note that this APT source does not use GPG signing of Packages files. When I am less lazy, I'll try to at least sign it with my GPG key.
I'm experiencing random crashes since X.org moved to 7.5. As of now,
I could take the needed time to properly report them as I hate
reporting just "keeps crashing on my system" bugs and make them RC
(but, for me they are). I couldn't even take time to downgrade to 7.4
by using testing package while they were here.
They mostly seem to be related to my dual screen setup at work (no
crashes at home) and/or VirtualBox use (I use VB at work to host my
work Windows machine).
Of course, as expected, X.org 7.5 migrated to testing and now I'm
screwed. I still have the crashes...and can't even easily
downgrade..:-(
Apart from beating myself, would there be a chance that someone still
has these packages somewhere? I probably need 7.4+4 packages.
Of course, one would expect me to react to this
post.
Apparently, from my cumulated experience, joking about funny
translations is a very widespread game among german-speaking
developers (of course, as everybody knows, us French do translate
everissing and no single Frainche DiDi will make such fun abaouttel10n
wouhorke, aha).
I'd say: more generally widespread among people .who jargonize about computing so often in their daily
work that they often forget that not everybody, even in a country
where people are as clever about English as German/Austrian/Swiss
folks are (we all know that 100% population in these places speak a
very perfect English) do understand what "downgrade" means.
Seriously, "funny" translations are our (translators) daily nightmare.
We hate them because we know people hate us (or make jokes about our
work) when they face them.
The example taken by Patrick is a nice case as "downgrade" is tricky for
all of us. For instance, French translators have chosen "revenir la
version pr c dente" as "bring back to former version". This is about
the only "right" way to say what's being done ("d grader" is another
option but that has a negative connotation). Of course, I often
*hear* people (incl. me) say "downgrader" which is an horrible
neologism....and of course doesn't say anything to people who are
clueless in English.
English is, unfortunately, often a very compact language. This is our
daily pain.
So, as German translation of "to downgrade", what do *you* propose,
Patrick? "Downgradieren"?
Tricky, eh? Taken from APT for "downgrade":
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