22 January 2006

It's important to remember.
Today I've entered to catalan translations coordination page and I've seen than somebody has translated a page I had ITT (Intend to Translate). Furious, I've read the logs to know who did it. Ups... I had translated it....

I've finished the first part of my NM process, and I'm waiting for the T&S; questions. The first block of P&P; was ugly... A lot of DFSG related questions. It's boring and too large. Maybe it was better to allot all questions between all blocks. The second part was more interesting. Debian Policy and Developers Reference are two very interesting high quality documents. Although I've read them a few months ago, I've learned a few new things and found a debian debian-policy bug.

When I was in the first steps of NM process, I was looking for templates to T&S; and P&P; but I could not found them. But this templates are public and you could found them here. I don't knok how long are them up to date as you could see as Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt blog.

My work in Debian was being hard, working on a lot of sides, translations to catalan, maintaining packages, working with new packages and working with dbconfig-common and dl10n alioth projects.

A few months ago Aurelien began to sponsor me and then I inscribed me to the New Maintainer application list. I was reading each they the movements on the application list, and today It has changed. Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt has been assigned as my Application Manager.

I was waiting for this moment, but now, I'm very nervous.

I've discovered dbconfig-common project, a very interesting seanius work used to help to create new database based packages. I've joined to it and 've done my first commit to cvs.
Two new packages dbconfig-common based is ready to upload to sid, mydms and bulmacont. When dbconfig-common will be on sid, I've ask aurel32 to upload mydms to unstable.

It seems now is working WEP encription in acx100 driver!. It was introduced in 0.2.0pre8+51-1 version of acx100 upstream version

A few months ago, I opened an ITP to ocrad package, then I tried to find an sponsor and seems to be not possible to find one. I uploaded it to nm.d.o and forgot it. Now, i've received this mail from Ubuntu:

Hello Miguel,

I'm working on the community team that is bringing extra packages into
Ubuntu's Universe component so they are more easily found by Ubuntu
users. We've selected this package that you maintain:

- ocrad

So this will be part of the Ubuntu 5.04 release on April 8th. We may
add more packages after Hoary, for the next release in October,
codenamed Breezy Badger.

We'd like to work with you to make sure that the latest version of your
packages is always in Ubuntu. Feel free to mail me whenever you have new
versions of the packages for testing or commentary. If you'd like to be
able to upload directly to Ubuntu then we can arrange that. We organise
ourselves as an open community project - some details are at
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU if you'd like to join the ubuntu universe.

Have a nice day,
Daniel Holbach


It seems as Ubuntu is working to add software faster than Debian. I'm thinking my answer.

In http://bts.turmzimmer.net/details.php?ignore=sid&ignnew;=on&ignpatch;=on&new;=5 you can read:

Total shown: 39 bugs.

You could find your chinese name here
My name is, in chinese chars:

I've been looking for install manuals for acx100 or acx111 wireless cards on internet and I find a few things only one nice http://stef.tvk.rwth-aachen.de/~nazgul/debian/DWL-650+_Howto.html I've added this address to package description for acx100-source.

It seems impossible to release Sarge. I've received in 2 days 800 mails about Vancouver release team meeteing subject.
My opinion:
Abandon an architecture is throw users. Whats happen if we realease by blocks? I could release a block with main architectures (i386,powerpc,ia64,itianium?) and other blocks with the others, releasing them but no necessarily in the same moment. A few of them will disappear if there are not interest on maintaining them because no help to do it, but, if a architecture is out of main block and is enought people interested on it, it will be released at time.
It could be as I'll be trying to be a fork, but is no the idea. The difference could be that we could have more than one package per upstream, with coordination but not blocking themseves on releases.

One month ago, trying to use qemu as root (stupid...) I've broke my filesystem... I've had to reinstall all... hard work...
When I finish reinstalling all, I did a backup, and forget it in a lost locker. On wednesday, I did a new backup of sensible data. On Thursday my hard disk has broken!!!!

I think is my first time from 1995 (when I abandoned windows) I have to reinstall my linux more than one time a month...

The race has begun

I've contacted with myDMS upstream and he said me he is going to stop project ... :( I'm thinking about include it on Debian and be its upstream. It could be a hard work... It's a good project... I'll package first and think go include or not after that.

I've tried this weekend to init my process to be developer. I've contacted with my main sponsor to be my advocate. I think my work is good to Debian.

I've discovered myDMS, an interesting Document Management System, I've installed on my system and tried it. It works so fine I've begun to use on my own documents.
I've decided tu package it to Debian.
I don't know why, but php packages seems not to be a good option in Debian. But I think this package is a very good option in Debian, I've looked for another DMS in Debian and there are not another good option.
I think I could find an sponsor for this package.

Last day was dreadful. My wife is ill, my twins and my son are ill. Yesterday one of them pull down the TV, vomit tree times on the floor, and fall down from the bed.

I had a crash on my laptop and all system was gone. I lost tree months work!!!!!. Definitively, It was'nt a good day.

Holidays is going down... Tomorrow I must come back to work, and it's not my preference in this moment. I've been enjoying my wife and sons. I must think in work again. In this hollidays, I've did:

- Packaged pngwriter for Debian. Nice person Paul Blackburn, the upstream. I've added to my contacts on messenger.
- Packaged a new version for acx100 driver (0.2.0pre8+44-1).
- I'm translating a d-i document to catalan (long)
- I'm translating FET to catalan (long looong)
- I have been working in correct RC bugs in Debian (none corrected, one I found was a false bug, and the another one is not a package bug, it was a kernel bug!).
- I offered me as a co-maintainer for cdrtools.

I must to thank to my sponsor Aurelien Jarno for sponsor me for my new maintained package pngwriter.

Travel? Difficult. Not enought money and too children.
Maybe in the future.

You can see my travels:



create your own visited countries map

Nice day, nice... eat, sing, and drink. Not too but enough!

Have a good day and God bless you and your family.

Uau!!!
It was marvelous, fant stic... I was up and down touching here and there... ufff... I was really nervous, impatient. I ask all I must do. Yes, I know I must no to ask and try myself. But, you can understand me. It's my first time I have a bug on a package! XD

Gooooood Morning!
Today I'm optimist. My one year twins today has been sleeping for 15 hours! (and me too, of course).

Yesterday, I uploaded my acx100 package to mentors.debian.net at 17:15 or so. I see this page and all is correct. at 22:15 I see the page, and It had been hacked! In that moment I send a message to Aur lian to say not to upload the package to debian. At the same moment I recived a message from him telling me the package has been uploaded. Shit! But the package hasn't been compromised.

Murphy is not infalible!