After attending several talks and BOFs at Debconf12, I'll grant my personal "Best Talk Award" to Hideki Yamane's Let's shrink Debian package archive!. Despite it being his first ever Debconf talk/BOF, Yamane-san did an incredibly complete research work to bring arguments about ways to reduce the size of the archive by using xz compression. He triggerred a very live discussion (and for this we can also thank all participants) and the quality of his slides was really high. So, for this, as Tom Marble said after the talk. You definitely deserve it and I'm proud to have you as teammate in the pkg-fonts team.

As already written, even though it seems, I didn't spend my time running at Debconf12. Or eating cheese... Or (tentatively) hiking volcanoes... Or helping people to kill each other with socks... Or drinking beers... Not *only* all of these (some of them at the same time, though hiking a volcano while eating cheese and drinking beers is not particularly easy)....but also some Debian work. So, I uploaded a backport of samba to squeeze backports and our squeeze users should now have the same samba version than wheezy ones. I also stopped several cronjobs on i18n.debian.net and moved some material there as links have been (or should be) moved to the brand new i18n.debian.org (and its alias l10n.debian.org). I did a major cleanup in tasksel, committed several fixes, proposed others for review (mostly to Joey Hess). All this in preparation for a soon-to-come upload, probably after D-I beta1 which has been prepared by Cyril Brulebois while he was.....not attending Debconf12.. I also followed the integration of Sorina Sandu's work on netcfg for link detection and network ESSID choice in Debian Installer. Sorina is doing well in her GSOC work, because she's clearly someone with great capabilities who we will, I hope, be able to keep contributing to Debian. We can also thank the mentoring work of Gaudenz Steinlin to guide Sorina through D-I's arcanes. I also went through the current status of debconf translation completeness in testing for the 7 languages that target 100% (Czech, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish). Here, the point is mostly taking care that fixes are either:

• already fixed in unstable (therefore checking that unblock requests have been sent by maintainers)
• sent as a bug report (so that I can harrass package maintainers to fix it)
• under work by a localization team (so that I can pester them to move on)

I can we have good chances to achieve this goal for at least 6 of these 7 languages (Czech might be more tricky as several translations are not yet made). Finally, I also did most of my regular Debian work (which usually takes 1-2 hours every day)...and bits of my paid work (sorry for those people who I shared the table at breakfast, but that was my only common time window with my team at work). So, well, quite productive weeks, once again.

This morning, I ran again with No l, my longstanding Debian running friend. The goal was, this time, to explore the South-East heights of Managua. I noticed a road that seemed to be quiet enough and not requiring a too long transit through busy, noisy and bad smelling highways. So, at 06:00 we headed from the Seminole hotel to the road to Masaya (the very large highway that goes in front ofMetrocentro). We had to run along it for a bit less than 2km. Not the best thing but the road was not very busy at that time. Then, we turned right into a road heading towards a quite "classy" neighbourhood where roads are well paved, there are sidewalks, etc, etc. It was going up ALL TIME LONG, which is interesting as a start. This placed is named "Lomas de Santo Domingo" in Google Maps. We even found there the embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran. I can tell you, the Iran ambassador is quite living in a neat place and probably very happy to be there..:-) Fromthere, a very good concrete road starts to go up and up and up and up. many many very high standard villas, with fences, guards, etc. Strangely, there were several "For Sale" signs instead of "Se Vende". So, I guess this is a sign that this place is mostly inhabited by (very rich) foreigners, diplomats, etc. 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.

A new neighbourhood to explore today: the South-West/West area. Indeed, my original plan was going towards Lagunas de Nejapa and Asososca. However, I now understood that such non urban areas in Managua are almost inaccessible. It sound like walking and hiking in the nature is not something that urban inhabitants of Managua do often. So, in short, these places are....just impossible to go to. Anyway, I wanted to see this, just in case. As a consequence, I ended heading westward from Hotel Seminole through Avenida Miguel Obando Y Bravo (the busy highway close to the hotel, where we boarded the Day Trip buses). Running along this one is not a bad thing as it is not that busy, particularly at 05:45..:-) After crossinb Pista de la Unan that goes north towards the lake, I went 200m east then headed north up to reach the very busy Pista Juan Pablo II (or Pista de la Resistencia). For those who went to the day trip, this is the highway we went through at the beginning of the journey to Leon. It sounds crazy to run along a busy highway but:

• it was not that busy at that time
• this is the only way to not get lost in the barrios as we'll see later on..:-)

I followed that one during about 4km until it ends facing a cone-style mountain, about 150m high (former volcano crater?) After that long run straight, I ended at a big crossing, where the highways go either north or south....but a small street continues westward and is apparently going around the Laguna de Nejapa, at least according to Google Maps. However, there is indeed, as too often here, a barrier (which OSM would have told me, indeed). Hence, disappointed, I only could go back to the busy streets. I however decided that I would NOT come through the same way but rather try to run in smaller streets. This is where the problem lies. Indeed, Managua "barrios" are not always connected by streets to the large and busy streets that surround them. This is mostly because several rivers run south to north, towards the lake. And these are canalyzed to avoid floodings, which means there are not that many bridges to cross them. So, it often ends that a barrio is only connected on one or two of its sides, which makes travelling through them particularly difficult and puzzling (especially going in the east-west directions). So, I happened to search my way many times in these places, particularly in Barrio Pablo Sexto where the rivers directions are really confusing..:-) I finally had no other choice than going down to the big Pista Juan Pablo II and come back the same way to the hotel. The final result is a 15km run in 1h20. Not that a bad pace in these weather conditions. GPS trace

I failed. I didn't go running the day after the Cheese and Wine party (tuesday). I wonder why...:-) Indeed, I was feeling well, but slightly tired and I woke up at 8am, which means that I would have to go out quite late, in the heat...and run while feeling tired. And something I have learnt in all my running activities is that when one feels not in shape, better not insist. This is where injuries can come. Moreover, the next day was meant to be the Day Trip, with a goal for me: climb the Cerro negro volcano as fast as I can, training with my sticks for difficult climbs, in the heat...in the perspective of future races I would like to do in French Alps, in the upcoming years (such as La Montagn'hard : I recommend watching the video). Sadly, a landslide has cut the road 2km away from the starting point and, despite my desperate attempts to still form a group of "strong people" to go there and do the extra 4km walk anyway....we later learned that the entire road to Cerro Negro is closed and we'd have no chance to go on it. That infortunate, though I hopefully have another chance in the upcoming two weeks, where I'm supposed to come back and climb the volcano with Elizabeth (but, I of course will not leave my beloved one alone on a volcano!). So, I ended up staying on the beach at Las Pe itas. And, as I explained to No l, on days where I *decided* to run, I *need* to run. It's like a drug as you'd guess. So, I went running on the beach..:-). In the early afternoon, during a very hot day (probably the best weather we ever had, which makes me even more regret "my" volcano), about 34 C, no shade...and some wind, and sand...:-) Running on the beach is not as hard as one would imagine as long as you stay at the limit of the water, where the sand is compact. Indeed, this is even good for articulations as the sand soil is of course soft and absorbs impacts. The only drawback is that this beach is quite not so flat and this is sometimes like running across a hill all time long. Anyway, I went north up to Poneloya, up to the point where a river blocks the path along the beach, then I headed back. I had originally the intent to continue south-east, past the place where we were, up to the start of Juan Venaco island. However, the face wind when comign back, as well as the very hot sun, really achieved me....and I decided it would be wiser to stop. I however couldn't resist running IN the waves, which means I now have very humid shoes (but I have two pairs of those...:-)) Today (Thursday), was a more standard run in Managua, with No l and Ralf. We once again went to the South suburbs hills. All three of us were suite tired as it seems, so we chose a quite slow pace and, still, the climb was not that easy. We went the same way I went with Ralf a few days ago, but we didn't enter the "dogs path" this time, but rather tried to continue the road south. After 4.5 km, we had however to stop because the path didn't go further and, anyway, I think it was enough for all of us..:-) The way back, we tried another way, which was not particularly touristic (close to the National Soccer Stadium....a not so impressive stadium, but soccer is not the national sport here in Nicaragua, where people are more in base-ball or boxing). Both GPS traces:

• Run on the beach
• Run in South Managua

See you tomorrow for yet another GPS trace..:-)

One week. One long week. One beautiful week. One of the two major weeks of the year has passed since my previous post. Surely, we are in the middle of the two Major Weeks of the year, in the yearly schedule I have upheld for almost(!) ten years: DebConf+DebCamp. Yesterday, DebConf officially started. For the first time ever, we had a DebConf track targetted at the local (for a wide definition of local: All of the Central American countries) communities, which I chaired. We had the following talk lineup during this track:

• Empaquetando software para Debian (Gunnar Wolf)
• Introduction to Debian translation workflow and processes (Christian Perrier)
• OpenPGP discussion and skillshare (Daniel Kahn Gillmor)
• Empaquetando colaborativamente con git y collab-maint (Ulises Vitulli)
• Uso del sistema de manejo de errores de Debian (Hector Colina)
• Building free software communities (Leandro G mez

I believe it was a great success, and I hope the talks are useful in the future. They will be put online soon thanks to the tireless work of our work team. Today we sadly lost the presence of our DPL due to very happy circumstances he will surely announce himself. But DebConf will continue nevertheless - And proof of that is our anual, great, fun and inviting Cheese and Wine Party! After a series of organizational hiccups I hope nobody notices (oops, was I supposed not to say this?), today we had a beautiful, fun and most successful cheese and wine party, as we have had year after year since 2005. As many other people, we did our humble contribution for this party to be the success it deserves. There is lots of great cheeses, great wines, and much other great stuff we have to thank to each of the individuals who made this C&W party the success it was. Yes, it might be among the least-academic parts of our conference, but at the same time, it's one of its most cherished -and successful- traditions. And above all else, we have to thank our Great Leader^W^WCheeseMaster (who we still need to convince to play by our Great Leader's mandates - And no, I don't mean Zack here!) Hugs and thanks to my good and dear friend Christian Perrier for giving form to one of DebConf's social traditions that makes it so unique, so different from every other academic or communitary conference I have ever been part of. We still have most of the week to go. And if you are not in Managua (and are not coming soon), you can follow our activities following our video streams. Remember, debian/rules, now more than ever! And even given the (perpetual) heat in Managua: Wheezy is frozen, whee! [ all photos here taken by regina ]

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For once, I went north. Which means going *into* the city but I also need to explore that part of Managua, right? Therefore, I went down north heading to the lake and Old Cathedral. Surroundings of the Old Cathedral and Presidential House are strange. There is nearly nobody around, few activity. Doesn't look like a city's "heart". I also reached the lakeshore. I already read that managua is more or less "turning its back" to its lake. It's really true. There's nearly no place where one can actually freely reach the lakeshore, at least where I was. Seems that, here also, the nasty habit of bars and restaurants to "privatize" the shores, as one can see in Italy, sometimes Mexico....is also happening. I'm happy we have laws against this in France, indeed. Fun to also see a small recreation park...just like Coney Island, in some way..:) Anyway, I could still reach the lakeshore at some point and take a picture of the Chiltepe Peninsula (guess what on it? A volcano, of course...). I finally went back up through a different neighbourhood than the one I went down. Often "not so nice" streets, in some poor neighbourhood but, again, I always felt very safe....and people are still saying "bon dia" when you meet them. GPS trace is here, as usual.

I've been lazy today: I just went to the same place than yesterday..:-) I actually waslate and missed the meeting with No l who indeed went running in about the same neighbourhood, as well as Martin Bagge who went running on the road to the "Intermezzo" restaurant I described earlier..:-) So, no real fancy description today. And, as usual, the full GPS trace is here. The interesting challenge is to see if I can manage to achieve a run every day..:-). We'll see!

The challenge is now more and more to find good places to run without too much cars and noises....and not too far away. Today, I think I made it well..:-) After a look on the map, and some wild guess from what I now know of the way the city is organized, I decided to go south-west of Managa, from the hotel Seminole. This is again a hilly run because, anyway, wherever you go south in Managua, you're going up. Ralf, who arrived just yesterday, joined me and, I guess, enjoyed the run. After going through an obviously quite rich neighbourhood with nice villas, gardeners, huge US truck-style cars, we went close to the Mormonschurch...and a mosque, then headed westward close to "Colegio Americano", with fences, walls, guards in the corner, etc. Seems that any tiny bit of USA in the world needs an army to protect it. Crossing la Pista Suburbana, we then went on a very quiet roads towards the hill, in a very green and peaceful area. House there were really not as fancy as in other places, even seeming quite "poor" in some way. However, we never felt any problem and people we meet on the way are always friendly and smiling : "Hola", "Buenos Dias", etc. At the end of the road, after about half an hour, we decided to head back. However, as going back the same way is boring, I suggested we head up west as my phone's map (it is very helpful to have a smartphone with GPS and Google Maps for wandering through unknwon places) was mentioning another road going north-west a little bit westward. So we entered a small trail between house farms...with dogs! These were a bit "scary" as they were barking at us and of course running entirely freely. On the other hand, none was really aggressive and we had no problem. I however saw a few people really staring at us as I guess there are not so many runners in this place..:-). But still, we never felt unsafe: just in a quite uncommon place. After abotu 500m we found the "road" that was on my map: indeed a path going down slowly along the hill. And there was the marvel. An incredible panoramic view going going the volcanoes that are East and North of Leon : San Cristobal, Telica Rota, Pilas elHoj and last but definitely not least: EL MOMOTOMBO. A nearly perfect pyramid-style volcano that lies about 50km north-west of Managua, on the eastern shore of Managua Lake. The view there is...just fantastic with also a 180 panorama to West and North-West of the lake and the volcanoes area. After this, all we had to do was heading back to the hotel and share this with you...:-) As usual, the full GPS trace is here.

Yet another Grand Plan today: run in Masaya Volcan National Park. Masaya Volcano is one of the most active volcanoes in Nicaragua. It is located only 20km south-east of Managua, so going there is as easy as renting a taxi. The original plan was to drive to the entrance of the National park (on the road to Masaya city), then run up to the volcan, so from 250m altitude up to about 600m. I therefore rented a taxi with the kind help of Norman, and we agreed to meet up at 08:30 at the hotel, along with No l and Daniel (who was planning to walk up, not running). After discussing here or there, Kurt and Gaudenz joined, both with the intent of running up. Others would also have liked to join, but I wasn't in the mood of organizing a full bus of Debconfers..:-). My plan was to enjoy pyself the hike...not to manage several taxis, etc. We thus packed in Denis blue taxi...a fancy and very visible customized blue car that looked like it had been the topic of on episode of the "Pimp My Ride" TV show..:-) Sitting 4 people at the back of a regular car without hitting some blue neon lights, or 7" TV screens is kinda tricky, but we made it. When arriving at the park's entrance, we however learned that it is forbidden to walk or hike up the road by foot, because of potential high concentrations of Carbon Dioxide. Sadly, we then had to pack again in the car and go up with it. After reaching the parking close to the volcano's active crater (that is said to have a small lava lake at its bottom, one of the very few in the world), we decided to head up for going round the Nindira crater, an inactive crater located slightly above. Unfortunately, again, the path around the Masaya crater is forbidden to walk on, because of landslides. We indeed still had great fun by running around this crater (which is about a 2.5 kilometers round trip, very very hilly and sometimes hard to run on such as a mountain path. After about 50 minutes and two laps (after all, we had a giant stadium!), we headed back to the parking, packed 5 sweating geeks in the car and went back to the hotel. Full GPS trace is here. I also put a few pictures on Facebook, supposedly visible by anybody : Masaya crater and Nindiri crater.

It's still good to be at Debcamp before DebConf and I'm not running all day long, contrary to what you might think by reading my posts. Of course, I'm always busy with "social-like" activities such as doing my best for us to have a good Cheese and Wine Party as, now that I'm trapped into it, people expect it to be better and better each year. Or to revive the traditional Assassins game. But Debian is not only about killing cheese with socks and I try to also achieve a few things while being here. As of now, I can already count a few things:

• completing dpkg translation and dpkg manpages translations (I blessed Guillem Jover a lot for being so picky and changing so many details in dpkg messages....and I blessed Rapha l a lot for writing so detailed manpages). To be honest, that part was not achieved during Debcamp but during.....the flight from Paris to Atlanta and partly during the Atlanta-Managua flight. Being upgraded to Premium helped as there are power sockets in seats there..:-)
• completing APT translation and APT manpages translations. Here, a big work had been done by Justin Rye to bring more English in a big pile of Germish and I had to fight hard to check significative changes out of the typo and grammar fixes
• preparing a backport of samba for squeeze. We'll have samba 3.6.6 in wheezy and our squeeze users deserve it also
• go through a few leftovers from the Paris i18n sprint that created i18n.debian.org, such as creating a page for the I18n team.
• discuss (briefly) with David Pr votto have the Debian website l10n pages point to material from i18n.debian.org and no longeri18n.debian.net

The only thing I nearly haven't worked on yet is....the talk I have on Sunday and that is supposed to explain newcomers how to join the crowd of localization fanatics. Oh, and I'm still jetlagged and go to bed daily at 10pm...:-)

The Grand Plan today was reaching the end of the road I already explored on Tuesday. Named "Camino Las Viudas", it's climbing in the southern hills up to a place named "Intermzeeo del Bosque", apparently a very fancy (and expensive) restaurant. The road climbs in the apparently "rich" neighbourhood of Managua, with very fancy villas as guarded by private security, as well as private condominiums, guarded as well. What's funny to see is that, at the bottom of the road, when it crosses a large avenue (Pista Suburbana Espana), you can find several auto-rickshaws, just like those you find everywhere in India. Those autos apparently drive people who happen to work in these villas (like maids, gardeners, security guards, etc.) up to the place they work. We even met two cows wandering on the road and I hesitated waiting for a rickshaw to show up and take a pic of the road (with holes), the auto and the cows, then pretending that I'm no longer in Nicaragua but back in Karnataka. I did the run along with No l K the, who I was very happy to find again, restoring our now famous Debconf Runners Duet. We even found the German Embassy! Though climb, even if we took care to start at 6 a.m. to avoid the heat (and also the traffic and noise). No l unfortunately had to give up at 1km from the top of the road, when a 15% climb suddenly "killed" his legs. I need to train him more for ups and downs..:-) I could continue the road and finally reached the restaurant....which was guarded by private security (as apparently everything in this country) who unfortunately didn't let me in despite my desperate attempts to convince him, in broken Spanish, that I just wanted to take a few pictures and not place a bomb or rob someone... So, I gota little bit disappointed and the only option was then....to run down for another 8.5 kilometers, accelerating all the way, to finish nearly at 14 km/h on Managua's sidewalks...Fun. Great run (nearly 400m positive slope in less than 17km). Next challenge : find another such nice run in the neighbourhood! Maybe Volcan Masaya tomorrow. GPS trace is here.

Second day in managua, second day running. Today, after breakfast, so at about 7h45, I went out running with Gaudenz Steinlin. The goal was to go to laguna de Tiscapa, a lagoon of volcanic origin, in the middle of the city of Managua. The laguna is not really far away from the place we're staying at (about 2.5km). However, as usual here, the only way to get there is along the streets. Noisy streets. Often smelly streets. But that's the only way. For instance, it took Gaudenz several minutes before he could manage to cross the "Pista Beljamin Zelodon", a quite busy highway. The lagoon per se is really nice, particularly the view from the Sandino monument where you can see the Peninsula de Chiltepe. However, apart from that, it was sometimes a quite boring run because of the traffic, noise, etc. But I enjoyed again having a good run with Gaudenz. We'll do this again, but in another place..:-) GPS trace for that run is here.

Monthly DPL bits, fresh from the oven^W^W^W hot from DebConf12, and just posted to d-d-a.

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Howdy from DebConf12. It's hot, but it's also time to bother you again with a (not so) brief DPL activity report, this time for June 2012. Time-based freeze: DONE, short freeze: TODO Two highlights for this month. First, you've probably noticed Wheezy is now frozen, YAY. This is huge achievement for the release, but also for the project. It's the first time we do a time-based freeze, and it took some quite heated discussion at the beginning of the release cycle to decide to do this. And we did it properly: respecting the planned month and narrowing down the period later. This exercise has hopefully helped both DDs in their package planning and our upstreams in targeting Wheezy with stable releases of their software. Kudos to the release team for their coordination work! Now we've the second part still TODO: releasing Wheezy, without RC bugs, with a freeze period as short as possible. See the beginning of my last "bits from the DPL" mail for my usual song and dance on how to deliver that, together. DebConf12 A lot of us will attend DebConf12. Enjoy it! ... and take the chance to both have fun and make great plans for Debian's future. But remember that "if it didn't happen on a mailing list, it didn't happen". Not all of us will be lucky enough to attend DebConf (in person or remotely). Make sure that those who don't can take part in your team decisions and get informed of what is going to happen here. Politics

• After discussion (and consensus) on debian-boot, I've asked to join FSF campaign on secure boot.
• Since OIN was seeking comments on their Linux System definition (not really openly though: I learned about it last minute from people directly in touch with OIN representatives), I've contacted them proposing to include all "Debian main" packages in their definition. I haven't yet hear back from them, but I doubt they'll accept the idea. It'd be nice to have an official answer about why, though.

Zack's spring tour I spent a significant part of June doing Debian talks ins some sort of "spring tour" between Italy and France. In particular:

• I've taught a lenghty class about the Debian Project at the Insubria International Open Source Summer School in Como, Italy (see slides)
• I've delivered the opening keynote at the yearly Free Software conference in Ancona, Italy, ConfSL'12 (see slides)
• I've delivered the opening talk at the Debian for Scientific Facilities Days event organized by the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble, France (see slides)

Many thanks to the organizers of these events for inviting and sponsoring me (as well as other Debian people, in the ESRF case) and for their interest in Debian. Sprints

• I approved (for a budget of ~2'000 EUR) and helped hosting the i18n sprint in Paris. As a (great!) result of it, the i18n infrastructure has now been moved on DSA administered machines. A more detailed report is available. Thanks to all attendees and in particular to Christian Perrier for the organization work.
• as part of the "Debian for Scientific Facilities" event, a Debian Science sprint also took place at ESRF. Report is pending
• a BSP took place in Salzburg in June, see the report posted by Bernd Zeimetz. I've approved using some Debian money (~350 EUR) to pay for lodgement of some of the attendees

Assets

• DSA have been working on seting up the first machines we bought as part of the yearly revamping plan of Debian hardware. As one of the first user visible changes, UDD has been moved to a new, faster, machine. I single this out because, if you're doing RC bug squashing (as you should! :-)), you'll notice that the bugs search interface is now much faster, hopefully making your release work less frustrating. Similar improvements are forthcoming for other machines, while DSA (thanks!) migrate other services to newer hardware.
• Last April I mentioned that we're aiming at publishing comprehensive Debian budget reports for the past couple of years and that one of the blocker is access to our transaction information at SPI. This is still a blocker, unfortunately. And we still don't have an ETA on when it'll be fixed.
• The current owner of debian.eu has let us know that he is willing to hand over the domain to us. Finally.
• The European part of our Madrid protocol application for the Debian trademark has been vetted by the European trademark office. Meaning: Debian trademark is now officially protected in Europe.
• DuckDuckGo sent me a first report of the "donation" they're ready to make, based on our agreement with them. The aument is still unclaimed, as we're aiming at invoicing twice per year (to keep the papwerwork low). It isn't a stellar amount: 32.55 USD for the month of May.

Discussions Some relevant discussions for project evolution has been going on in June and I took part into them. You might want to have a look at them:

• proposal to change the way DM permissions are handled
• proposal to change the policy ruling the debian.net domain
• we've been discussing debconf12 budget at length, including how to deal with travel sponsorship requests in the future:
• in the "debian account on github" thread, I've proposed a general policy for presence of accounts named "debian" on non-free services
• the long quest on how to choose Wheezy artwork has come to an end, and we have a very nice theme now, thanks to contributions by many artist and integration work by Paul Tagliamonte. Not all went well in the process, but there are useful lessons for the future.

Misc

• I got quite some feedback about the debate with debian-multimedia.org I mentioned last month. My take away message from that feedback is that many users have no idea about the multimedia capabilities (and in particular of codecs availability) of recent Debian releases. We should probably invest some communication energies into that.
• as planned, another tech-ctte IRC meeting has happened. I took part into it, mostly asking to prioritize long standing issues, such as the Python maintenance one. Minutes of the meeting are available.

Cheers.

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PS the boring day-to-day activity log for June is available at master:/srv/leader/news/bits-from-the-DPL.txt.201206

One part of my yearly activity at DebConf is exploring the conference neighbourhood for good running spots. So, the first one this year has been an up and down run on "Camino Las Viudas", heading south from Managua. The path is easy to find: when exiting from Hotel Seminole, turn right in the street, cross the large boulevard on continue staright ahead for how many kilometers as you want. It climbs up in the hills all along, so that's quite a though one with about 5% slope all along. I stopped in the middle of nothing, just because I didn't want to run for more than one hour. I'll have to come back and see where this road goes. It seems to be climbing continuously..:-) So, one of my forthcoming plans is going to *the end* of this road, just to see what's there. From OpenStreetMap, it seems to end up in the hills. The run trace can be seen there.

Jan Dejemyr reported Debian bug #680000 on Monday July 2nd, against update-manager-core. Bug #670000 was reported as of April 22nd: 2 months and 10 days for 10,000 bugs. About a constant bug report rate (2 months and 7 days last time). How will the wheezy freeze affect this? We'll see in two months!

D-I beta 1 is in preparation. Commits to level 1 are still allowed but no guarantee they'll make it to beta1 and therefore wheezy.

• Galician, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Basque complete level 2 (indeed I committed espeakup translations which I forgot to commit)
• Norwegian Bokm l completes level 2
• Romanian completes level 1
• As a consequence, Galician, Norwegian Bokm l, Thai and Traditional Chinese join the "fully complete" gang

Status for D-I level 1 (core D-I files):

• 55 languages 100%: ar ast be bg bn bs ca cs cy da de el eo es et eu fa fi fr gl gu he hi id it ja kk km kn ko lo lv mr nb nl pa pl pt pt_BR ro ru si sk sl sr sv ta te th tr ug uk vi zh_CN zh_TW
• 1 language 98%: ga
• 2 languages 97%: hu lt
• 4 languages 95%: dz hr is mk
• 1 language 92%: ml
• others are 90% or below

Status for D-I level 2 (packages that have localized material that may appear during default installs, such as iso-codes, tasksel, etc.):

• 39 languages 100%: ast be bg ca cs cy da de eo es eu fa fr gl gu he id is it ja kk km lt lv mr nb nl pl pt ru si sk sl sv th tr uk zh_CN zh_TW
• 3 languages 99%: fi hr vi
• 3 languages 98%: dz pt_BR ro
• 2 languages 97%: ta ug
• 2 languages 94%: ar el
• 1 language 92%: sr
• 5 languages 92%: bn bs hu ko ne
• others are 90% or below

Status for D-I level 3 (packages that have localized material that may appear during non-default installs, such as win32-loader)

• 41 languages 100%: ast be bg bs ca cs cy da de el eo es fa fi fr ga gl he hr id is it ja kk km lt lv nb nl pl pt ru sk sl sr sv th tr vi zh_CN zh_TW
• 4 languages 98%: hu pt_BR ug uk
• others are 90% or below

Full 100% completeness (hall of fame) for 32 languages: Asturian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Khmer, Latvian, Norwegian Bokm l, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese

The D-I beta release is in preparation so we have many last minute updates and I'm uploading gazillion of packages. Each time, I upload one....a translator pops up and sends another update, etc. :-)

• Galician completed level 1, progress for level 2
• Irish progress in level 1
• Welsh completes level 2 and 3 and joins the Hall of Fame
• Croatian progress in level 1

Status for D-I level 1 (core D-I files):

• 54 languages 100%: ar ast be bg bn bs ca cs cy da de el eo es et eu fa fi fr gl gu he hi id it ja kk km kn ko lo lv mr nb nl pa pl pt pt_BR ru si sk sl sr sv ta te th tr ug uk vi zh_CN zh_TW
• 1 language 98%: ga
• 2 languages 97%: hu lt
• 5 languages 95%: dz hr is mk ro
• 1 language 92%: ml
• others are 90% or below

Status for D-I level 2 (packages that have localized material that may appear during default installs, such as iso-codes, tasksel, etc.):

• 34 languages 100%: ast be bg ca cs cy da de eo es fa fr gu he id is it ja kk km lt lv mr nl pl pt ru si sk sl sv tr uk zh_CN
• 8 languages 99%: eu fi gl hr nb th vi zh_TW
• 3 languages 98%: dz pt_BR ro
• 2 languages 97%: ta ug
• 2 languages 94%: ar el
• 1 language 92%: sr
• 5 languages 92%: bn bs hu ko ne
• others are 90% or below

Status for D-I level 3 (packages that have localized material that may appear during non-default installs, such as win32-loader)

• 41 languages 100%: ast be bg bs ca cs cy da de el eo es fa fi fr ga gl he hr id is it ja kk km lt lv nb nl pl pt ru sk sl sr sv th tr vi zh_CN zh_TW
• 3 languages 98%: hu ug uk
• others are 90% or below

Full 100% completeness (hall of fame) for 28 languages: Asturian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, French, Hebrew, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Khmer, Latvian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Simplified Chinese

Debian is such a universal system:

# apt-get install wine and cheese
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  brasero brasero-common cheese-common desktop-file-utils evolution-data-server-common gcr gir1.2-atk-1.0 gir1.2-clutter-1.0 gir1.2-clutter-gst-1.0 gir1.2-cogl-1.0
  gir1.2-coglpango-1.0 gir1.2-evince-3.0 gir1.2-freedesktop gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0 gir1.2-gst-plugins-base-0.10 gir1.2-gstreamer-0.10 gir1.2-gtk-3.0 gir1.2-gtkclutter-1.0
  gir1.2-gtksource-3.0 gir1.2-json-1.0 gir1.2-pango-1.0 gnome-desktop3-data gnome-icon-theme gnome-keyring gnome-sushi gnome-video-effects gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gvfs
  gvfs-backends gvfs-common gvfs-daemons gvfs-libs hwdata libbrasero-media3-1 libburn4 libcamel-1.2-29 libcap2-bin libcdio-cdda1 libcdio-paranoia1 libcdio13 libcheese-gtk21
  libcheese3 libclutter-1.0-0 libclutter-1.0-common libclutter-gst-1.0-0 libclutter-gtk-1.0-0 libclutter-imcontext-0.1-0 libcluttergesture-0.0.2-0 libcogl-common libcogl-pango0
  libcogl9 libebook-1.2-12 libecal-1.2-10 libedataserver-1.2-15 libedataserverui-3.0-1 libevdocument3-4 libevview3-3 libexempi3 libgck-1-0 libgcr-3-1 libgcr-3-common libgee2
  libgjs0b libglib2.0-data libgnome-desktop-3-2 libgssdp-1.0-3 libgupnp-1.0-4 libgxps2 libisofs6 libjson-glib-1.0-0 libjte1 libmozjs185-1.0 libmpg123-0 libmx-1.0-2 libmx-bin
  libmx-common libnautilus-extension1a libpam-cap libpam-gnome-keyring libpoppler-glib8 libpoppler19 libquvi-scripts libquvi7 libsidplay1 libt1-5 libtotem-plparser17
  libtracker-sparql-0.14-0 libwine libwine-alsa libwine-bin libwine-gecko-1.4 libwine-gl nautilus nautilus-data nautilus-sendto wine-bin
Suggested packages:
  libdvdcss2 gnome-video-effects-frei0r libcap-dev sidplay-base xsidplay wine-doc libwine-cms libwine-sane libwine-ldap libwine-print libwine-openal libwine-gphoto2 eog
  xdg-user-dirs tracker pidgin gajim ttf-mscorefonts-installer winbind avscan klamav clamav 
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  and brasero brasero-common cheese cheese-common desktop-file-utils evolution-data-server-common gcr gir1.2-atk-1.0 gir1.2-clutter-1.0 gir1.2-clutter-gst-1.0 gir1.2-cogl-1.0
  gir1.2-coglpango-1.0 gir1.2-evince-3.0 gir1.2-freedesktop gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0 gir1.2-gst-plugins-base-0.10 gir1.2-gstreamer-0.10 gir1.2-gtk-3.0 gir1.2-gtkclutter-1.0
  gir1.2-gtksource-3.0 gir1.2-json-1.0 gir1.2-pango-1.0 gnome-desktop3-data gnome-icon-theme gnome-keyring gnome-sushi gnome-video-effects gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly
  gvfs-backends hwdata libbrasero-media3-1 libburn4 libcamel-1.2-29 libcap2-bin libcdio-cdda1 libcdio-paranoia1 libcdio13 libcheese-gtk21 libcheese3 libclutter-1.0-0
  libclutter-1.0-common libclutter-gst-1.0-0 libclutter-gtk-1.0-0 libclutter-imcontext-0.1-0 libcluttergesture-0.0.2-0 libcogl-common libcogl-pango0 libcogl9 libebook-1.2-12
  libecal-1.2-10 libedataserver-1.2-15 libedataserverui-3.0-1 libevdocument3-4 libevview3-3 libexempi3 libgck-1-0 libgcr-3-1 libgcr-3-common libgee2 libgjs0b libglib2.0-data
  libgnome-desktop-3-2 libgssdp-1.0-3 libgupnp-1.0-4 libgxps2 libisofs6 libjson-glib-1.0-0 libjte1 libmozjs185-1.0 libmpg123-0 libmx-1.0-2 libmx-bin libmx-common
  libnautilus-extension1a libpam-cap libpam-gnome-keyring libpoppler-glib8 libpoppler19 libquvi-scripts libquvi7 libsidplay1 libt1-5 libtotem-plparser17 libtracker-sparql-0.14-0
  libwine libwine-alsa libwine-bin libwine-gecko-1.4 libwine-gl nautilus nautilus-data nautilus-sendto wine wine-bin The following packages will be upgraded:
  gvfs gvfs-common gvfs-daemons gvfs-libs   
4 upgraded, 95 newly installed, 0 to remove and 974 not upgraded.   
Need to get 100 MB/104 MB of archives.
After this operation, 250 MB of additional disk space will be used.

Thanks to Zobel, who pointed me to this one....

• Galician progress in level 1 and level 2
• Welsh completes level 1
• Latvan completes level 3 and is now 100% everywhere

Status for D-I level 1 (core D-I files):

• 53 languages 100%: ar ast be bg bn bs ca cs cy da de el eo es et eu fa fi fr gu he hi id it ja kk km kn ko lo lv mr nb nl pa pl pt pt_BR ru si sk sl sr sv ta te th tr ug uk vi zh_CN zh_TW
• 3 languages 97%: ga hu lt
• 5 languages 95%: dz gl is mk ro
• 1 language 92%: ml
• others are 90% or below

Status for D-I level 2 (packages that have localized material that may appear during default installs, such as iso-codes, tasksel, etc.):

• 33 languages 100%: ast be bg ca cs da de eo es fa fr gu he id is it ja kk km lt lv mr nl pl pt ru si sk sl sv tr uk zh_CN
• 7 languages 99%: eu fi hr nb th vi zh_TW
• 4 languages 98%: dz gl pt_BR ro
• 2 languages 97%: ta ug
• 2 languages 94%: ar el
• 1 language 92%: sr
• 5 languages 92%: bn bs hu ko ne
• others are 90% or below

Status for D-I level 3 (packages that have localized material that may appear during non-default installs, such as win32-loader)

• 40 languages 100%: ast be bg bs ca cs da de el eo es fa fi fr ga gl he hr id is it ja kk km lt lv nb nl pl pt ru sk sl sr sv th tr vi zh_CN zh_TW
• 3 languages 98%: hu ug uk
• others are 90% or below

Full 100% completeness (hall of fame) for 27 languages: Asturian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, French, Hebrew, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Khmer, Latvian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Simplified Chinese