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This is my monthly summary of my Debian related activities. If you re among the people who support my work, then you can learn how I spent your money. Otherwise it s just an interesting status update on my various projects.
GNOME 3 packaging
Right after the GNOME 3 release, I was eager to try it out so I helped the pkg-gnome team to update some of the packages. I did some uploads of totem, totem-pl-parser, gvfs, mutter, gnome-shell, gnome-screensaver. I also kept people informed via my blog and prepared a pinning file for adventurous users who wanted to try it out from experimental (like me).
One month later, I m still using GNOME 3. There are rough edges still, but not so many. And I m starting to get used to it.
Debian Rolling planning
Debian Rolling is a project on my TODO list for quite some time. I decided it was time to do something about it and started a series of articles to help clarify my ideas while getting some early feedback. My goal was to prepare a somewhat polished proposal before posting it to a Debian mailing list.
But as usual with Murphy s law, my plan did not work out as expected. Almost immediately after my first post the discussion started on debian-devel:
At this point it s a discussion thread of several hundreds of messages (there are several screens of messages like the one above). Many of the sub-threads have been interesting, but the general discussions mixed too many different things so that there s no clear outcome yet. Lucas Nussbaum tried to make a summary.
Obviously I must adjust my plan, there s lots of feedback to process. I accepted to drive a DEP together with Sean Finney to help structure the part of the discussion that focuses on allowing development to continue during freezes. But I m also eager to fix the marketing problem of testing and have the project recognize that testing is a product in itself and that end-users should be encouraged to use it.
Package Tracking System maintenance
The Package Tracking System is an important tool for Debian developers, and it has been broken by some change on the Bug Tracking System. I worked around it quite quickly so that few people noticed the problem but Cron kept reminding me that I had to properly fix it.
I ended up doing it last week-end. While working on the PTS, I took the opportunity to merge a patch from Jan Dittberner to enhance the news RSS feed that the PTS provides. And I also integrated information from backports.debian.org (thanks to Mehdi Dogguy for reminding me #549115).
Multiarch update
Not much new this month. I fixed two bugs in the multiarch dpkg branch thanks to bug reports from Ubuntu users (LP 767634, LP 756381). I m still waiting on Guillem Jover finishing his review of the multiarch branch. I m pinging him from time to time but it looks like multi-arch is no longer in his short term priority list. 
I ve been running this code for more than 2 months and it works fine. I want to see it merged. I m ready to update my code should anything need to be changed to please Guillem. But without any feedback we re in a deadlock.
Misc dpkg work
While fixing a bug in update-alternatives (found in one of the valid reports on launchpad), I noticed that there was room for improvements in the error messages output by update-alternatives. I changed them to reuse the same strings that were already used in other parts of dpkg. The result is that there are a few strings less to translate (always a nice thing for the poor translators who have to deal with the thousands of strings that dpkg contains).
I also tried to fix some of the most cryptic error messages in dpkg (see #621763) but that work is stalled at the request of Guillem.
Book update
We (me and Roland Mas) are almost done with the update of our French book for Debian Squeeze. It will hit the shelves in July or September. I m starting to prepare the fundraising campaign to make an English translation of it. We ll use ulule.com for this.
On my blog
I have been pleased to interview Meike Reichle, it s the first women that I have interviewed in the series but it s certainly not the last one. I also interviewed Adam D. Barratt, one of our tireless release managers.
Thanks
Many thanks to the people who gave me 180.35 in March and 235.37 in April. That represents 1.5 and 2 days of work for those months.
See you next month for a new summary of my activities.
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A few days ago I did an interview
for the People Behind Debian series that, among other things, covered
my Debian press work and asked what it's like to do that kind of work for
Debian. Here's a little addendum:
Sometimes Debian Press Work is great: All these people do all this
amazing stuff and it's a pure pleasure to talk about it. Our last release
was such an experience for example. I was clamped to my laptop for almost
20 hours straight and I had a great time! There was this great common
feeling of community, achievement and pride in our work and I was proud and
happy to be a part of it.
And then there are times like the last few days, where Alex and I went
South for 4.5 precious and long-awaited days of vacation and ended up
spending the first two of them working on an obituary for a dear and
much valued member of our community and once this was done spent the
remaining days of our holidays nervously watching the net and drafting and
re-drafting press announcements because some <bleep> thought
it might be oh-so-hilarous to send out faked cease and desist
orders to a Debian user, ostensibly as a funnyprank but along the way causing a huge amount of completely unsubstantiated FUD that we'll probably spend weeks clearing up. Somewhere in between these events is what Debian press work is like.
Meike Reichle is a Debian developer since 2008 but has been involved for longer than that, in particular in Debian Women. She s a great speaker and shared her experience in a Debconf talk.
She s also part of the Debian publicity team and managed the live coverage of the last release on identi.ca. Enough introduction, learn more about her by reading the interview. My questions are in bold, the rest is by Meike.
Who are you?
My name is Meike Reichle, I am a studied information scientist and work
as a project manager at Pengutronix, an embedded Linux company probably
best known for their ARM kernel work. I live in Germany, more exactly in
Lower Saxony, but I was originally born and raised in Swabia. Although I
moved here ten years ago I still have a rather strong Swabian cultural
identity. (Among other things I pride myself on having introduced a
number of fellow DDs to the true promise that are real hand-made Sp tzle
) I am married to Alexander Reichle-Schmehl, we ll have our third
wedding anniversary this summer. Apart from Debian most of my spare time
is used for all kinds of crafts and DIY activities. Making things with my
hands always gives me a great sense of accomplishment.
My Free software history is summed up pretty quickly. Like most women of my
age I wasn t introduced to computers until well into my teens. I didn t
have a computer of my own until I started studying at the university in
2001. From there on things developed rather quickly: Working on the
University s Unix terminals got me hooked on *nixes, so I got me one of
those Linuxes everyone talked about. I tried a couple of different
distributions, ended up with Debian around 2004, started contributing in
2005, and finally became a full DD what a nice coincidence! exactly
this day (Apr 18th) three years ago.
You re part of Debian Women. How is the project going? I have the feeling that the number of women involved in Debian has not significantly increased.
The amount of women active within Debian is a tricky thing to judge.
Here s a quick example why:
When the DPL was elected in 2004 there were 911 Debian Developers
eligible to vote, 4 of them were female. Shortly after, during DebConf4,
debian-women was founded. When the current DPL was reelected last month,
there were again 911 Debian Developers eligible to vote, but this time 13
of them were women.
You can look at these numbers and say The number of female DDs has more
than tripled, what a success! Or you can pull out your calculator and it
will tell you that in terms of ratio this puts us from a measly 0.4% to
an only slightly less measly 1.4% ratio of female DDs. This still is pardon my language a bloody shame, but sadly also pretty close to the
average ratio of women in Free Software.
So, while I do think that the debian-women project did already have a
significant impact on the Debian project as a whole, I don t think it has
achieved its goals yet. Not for a long time.
There s still a lot to be done but unfortunately the debian-women project
has somewhat run out of steam at the moment. The seven years of its
existence divide quite equally into the first half, which was very active
and saw great results, and the second half, which was very slow and much
more passive. In my impression debian-women is currently undergoing a
rather bumpy generational change. On the one hand a lot of the original
members, including myself, have reduced their involvement. Speaking for
myself this is caused by shift of interests as much as general weariness.
On the other hand there are only very few women following up. This
development is also reflected quite harshly in DD numbers: If I don t
misjudge any first names (and I desperately hope I do!) for the last
three years not a single woman has joined Debian as a developer! After
the great start debian-women has had, this is a very painful thing to
see!
That said, things don t look all bad. There is a number of women
maintaining packages without being DDs and there s also at least one
woman currently in NM, so there s hope this standstill won t last very
much longer. But still, the fact remains that debian-women is suffering
from a rather serious recruitment problem and I hope that this interview
might actually help to spur some new or not yet active members into
action. The aim of debian-women is far from achieved and now that its
initial members are receding its time for new members to step up and take
initiative.
What should Debian do to be more attractive to women ? I think the general atmosphere has improved, we re less tolerant with rude behaviour, the usual tone on mailing lists has improved. Yet it doesn t seem to be enough.
If there was a female DD for every time I answered that question
First of all, I agree, Debian as a community has improved tremendously!
Our general tone is much more friendly and cooperative and there is now a
much better awareness of the impression we give to outsiders and
newcomers.
Now on to the difficult part: The question what should be done to get
more women into Free Software has been around almost as long as Free
Software exists, and it has been answered very well by a lot of people:
Twenty years ago Ellen Spertus wrote Why are There so Few Female Computer Scientists? and most of it
still holds true. Almost ten years ago Val Henson (now Aurora) wrote
HOWTO Encourage Women in Linux and that also is
still pretty accurate. In 2006 Floss Pols undertook extensive
research to find out why there were so few women in Open Source and Free
Software and how that could be changed. They also came up with a very
good set of recommendations. All of these texts highlight different
aspects of that question and all of them have very good points.
I personally have, over the years, arrived at a rather sociological, not
to say holistic point of view. In fact I answered the exact same question
a few days ago, and the answer I gave then was this: After ~10 years of
women in tech advocacy I d say the ultimate and final measure to get more
women into Free Software is by finally achieving a truly equal society
and at the same time dramatically improving child care support in almost
any country. I ve come to the conclusion that what really holds women
back in practice is not so much a lack of skill or interest but a simple
lack of opportunity. For most of us Free Software is what we do in our
spare time and that s something that women, even today, have considerably
less of than men. Even in couples where both partners work full-time it
is still mostly the woman who does the majority of the housework and
child care duties. In most cultures men have a perceived right to their
leisure time that does not to the same degree exist for women.
That is one major reason, the other is instilled modesty, which has kind
of become my personal arch-enemy by now. I ve talked to so many girls and
women at all sorts of events about why they won t take up Computer
Science studies or join a Free Software project and the answer I hear
most often is that they do not consider themselves good enough in one
or another aspect. Sometimes they will doubt their technical skills,
sometimes their language skills, sometimes their stamina. Needless to say
these girls and women were not any less qualified than the people already
active in Free Software.
So, yes, in the short and medium term making Debian a more welcoming and
friendly place is the way to go. As many others pointed out already this
will not only benefit prospective contributors but the community as a
whole: those new to it as well as those who ve been in it for a long
time. In the long term however what we need is empowerment! Women who are
just as confident about their skills as men and are not discouraged by
uncooperative environments. This is of course something that is
culturally deep-rooted and can only happen in a very large time frame.
So, for the moment the way to go in my view is accessibility: a
cooperative atmosphere, a code of conduct, comprehensive documentation
not only of technical aspects but also of structures and processes. The
other thing we need to do is to have as many already active women as
possible attend as many Linux/Debian/Free Software/Whatever events as
possible. In my experience it happens quite often that other women see
these women, feel very inspired by them, get to talk to them and then a
few days later show up on some mailing list or IRC channel. From what
I ve seen personal contact still beats any other kind of recruiting
measures.
You re a Debian developer but you re also married with a Debian developer (Alexander Reichle-Schmehl). Did you meet because of Debian? If not, who introduced Debian to the other one? 
We did in fact meet because of Debian. More specifically during our booth
shift at the Debian booth at LinuxTag 2005, where I did a talk on the
debian-women project and Alex organised the DebianDay. After that our
relationship developed pretty much along our Debian activities: After our
initial meeting we talked a lot on #debian.de, when Alex went to DebConf5
and I didn t we noticed that we kind of missed each other. The first gift
he ever gave me was a Debconf5 shirt and a box Finnish chocolates (I
still have one of them today. ) Our first secret kiss was at ApacheCon
2005, where we were both staffing the Debian booth (kudos to abe for
pretending not to notice). We then became an official couple at
Berlinux 2005 where we were both staffing the Debian booth and giving
talks on packaging and user motivation. Our first real relationship
stress test was when we both joined the DebConf6 orga team. It was a
stressful time, but we passed it with flying colours! About a year later
we announced our engagement via planet.debian.org. Our wedding was a
veritable MiniDebConf, one of the best gifts we got was a Debian cookbook
including the favourite recipes of DDs from around the world.
By now we ve both finished university and work full-time jobs, so we
don t do as many talks and attend as many Debian events as we used to.
Instead we now mainly focus on press and publicity work, which is quite
practical to work on as a pair. It s actually rather funny that way,
Alex and I get confused with each other quite often, since we have almost
the same name, often pick up on each other s E-Mail conversations and are
most often quoted by our function rather than by name. Because of we have
kind of merged into this virtual Debian Press Person in the perception of
many of our contacts.
You also have another hat : Debian Press Officer. What is this about? What would you suggest to people who would like get involved in that domain?
Debian press work is mainly about providing an official and coordinated
point of contact to anyone wanting information from or about Debian. The
press team answers all sorts of inquiries (the most popular one is is of
course always the next release date) and makes sure all important events
and developments within Debian receive the attention and recognition they
deserve. Debian is a diverse project where every sort of contributor is
free to voice his or her opinion in any way. We don t have NDAs or
prescribed terminology. That s one of the things I love about Debian but
also something that makes us difficult to handle for conventional media.
They want official statements, in generally understandable terms, at
appointed times. That s what the press team takes care of. Almost all of
the press work is done in the publicity team, which coordinates using
IRC, Mail and SVN. The publicity team also publishes the Debian Project
News, which are very popular among our users and developers. Press work
is also an area of work that offers lots of possibilities for
non-technical contribution. http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Publicity lists
a number of possibilities for contribution and, like most Debian Teams,
we d be more than grateful to get some more helping hands and happy to
introduce interested newcomers to our work.
What s the biggest problem of Debian?
In my view: Overwork. Debian has thousands of contributors but still a
lot of the main work rests on very few shoulders. We need more
contributors, especially, but not only in the key teams. In order to get
more people we need to do some marketing which is very hard for us, since
we are very proud of our independence and have a strong focus on purely
technical aspects rather than aiming for popularity. However, with the
current amount of Open Source and Free Software projects to join we find
ourselves not only in a contest on technical excellence but also a sort
of popularity contest that is about perception rather than hard facts.
This popularity contest is difficult for Debian and currently costs us
quite a bunch of very capable people.
Do you have wishes for Debian Wheezy?
My answer to that is a non-technical one: I think Debian is currently
very under-appreciated, we do a lot of great work and maybe even more
importantly we do a lot of important work for Software Freedom, sometimes
even at the cost of our above-mentioned popularity. I hope people will
appreciate that more again in the future.
Is there someone in Debian that you admire for their contributions?
Over the years I have made a lot of friends within the Debian community,
some have even become family. That makes it somewhat hard to single out
individual people. I think what I admire most is continuous commitment. I
am very impressed by those among us who have kept up a high level of
commitment over many years and at the same time managed to bring that in
line with a fulfilled personal/family life. That s something that I hope
I ll also be able to achieve in the years to come.
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As you probably already know, Debian released Squeeze aka Debian 6.0 this week-end. It was a really great week-end.
I saw quite a few release already, but none with so much online social activity. Alexander and Meike Schmehl live commented the release on the Debian identi.ca account and Joey Hess held his Debian Party Line.
On top of this, the team in charge of the website rolled out a new design on quite a few online services during the week-end including www.debian.org, wiki.debian.org, planet.debian.org and more.
Congratulations to all the people who made this happen (and the release team in particular). It s great to see Debian achieve all of this.
Do you know that it s the third time in a row that we manage to release in the 18-24 months timeframe? 3.1: June 2005 4.0: April 2007 5.0: February 2009 6.0: February 2011.
Yes, despite our size and the fact that we are all volunteers, we have managed to stick to a reasonable schedule for a stable distribution that is deployed on a large scale.
Wheezy kicks off
The best part of the release for us the developers is that wheezy is now open for development and we can work on new features for the next release.
And it started quickly: according to UDD, wheezy already features 488 new source packages that are not in squeeze, 1713 updated source packages and among those 1246 are new upstream versions.
I really look forward to the upcoming projects and related discussions.
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# Updated packages in wheezy select count(source) from sources_uniq as su where (select version from sources_uniq where release='squeeze' and distribution='debian' and source = su.source) < su.version and release='wheezy' and distribution='debian'; # Updated with a new upstream version select count(source) from sources_uniq as su where debversion(regexp_replace((select version from sources_uniq where release='squeeze' and distribution='debian' and source = su.source), '-.*', '')) < debversion(regexp_replace(su.version, '-.*', '')) and release='wheezy' and distribution='debian'; # New package in wheezy select count(source) from sources_uniq as su where source not in (select source from sources_uniq where release='squeeze' and distribution='debian' and source = su.source) and release='wheezy' and distribution='debian';
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That's it! Squeeze is released and the website's new design is in place.
What a great day! In addition to the usual announcements on the website and
mailing lists we decided to also do a live coverage of the whole process
using identi.ca this time!
Alex and me have been doing a live coverage of Debian's release process
for almost 19 hours straight and, although we're dead beat now, I think it
was well worth it! People seemed to enjoy being included in the process and
many expressed their admiration for Debian's
well-coordinated and purposeful proceedings.
Congratulations to all involved: the FTP team, the release team, the CD
team, the www team and the publicity team! Great work everyone!
The Debian Press Team will provide a live coverage of today's squeeze release
(Yaaay!) via identi.ca. Follow us at http://identi.ca/debian.
Which mail server administrator hasn t tested his servers using telnet
on port 25, speaking SMTP himself? And which of them made a typo and
had to retype everything due to missing readline support of telnet? If
you want to check SMTP over SSL aka SMTPS, you had to use
openssl s_client -connect yourserver:465 . And what did you
use to check TLS support on port 25?
Just forget about those hassles and use swaks (Debian package), the Swiss Army Knife for SMTP. It does all the
annoying stuff (using the correct syntax, typing fast enough, SSL,
TLS, etc.) for you while still giving you full control over the SMTP
session, especially showing you all input and output:
$ swaks -t abe@noone.org -s sym.noone.org -q RCPT === Trying sym.noone.org:25... === Connected to sym.noone.org. <- 220 sym.noone.org ESMTP Postfix (Debian/GNU) -> EHLO nemo.deuxchevaux.org <- 250-sym.noone.org <- 250-PIPELINING <- 250-SIZE 10240000 <- 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES <- 250 8BITMIME -> MAIL FROM:<abe@nemo.deuxchevaux.org> <- 250 2.1.0 Ok -> RCPT TO:<abe@noone.org> <** 450 4.2.0 <abe@nemo.deuxchevaux.org>: Sender address rejected: Greylisted, see http://postgrey.schweikert.ch/help/noone.org.html -> QUIT <- 221 2.0.0 Bye === Connection closed with remote host.Since the moment I discovered swaks, I never telnetted to port 25 anymore.
The following is written in German and probably only interesting for people living near D sseldorf. I decided to post this to Planet Debian as it might interest some of you :)
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- This is my fourth CLT
report and they surely are becoming repetitive! But every good event
deserves a good report, so here goes:
Contrary to previous years we already arrived on Friday this year. Since
we were also not up for another stint with the gym (Aaah the sissifying
effects of marriage!) we booked a room with a nice little guesthouse about
15 bus-minutes from the venue.
The conference was great as ever:
Hey Meike,
a new edition is planned, but first I need to finish my research and submit my
thesis. Then I will immediately turn to the book, which I will
update for lenny , and to which I will add a lot of content. My
goal is to provide enough of a reason for everyone to buy the new
edition, I do not want to disappoint those who have bought the
first edition.
Stay tuned over at the book s
website or the
book s announcement list.
NP:
The Penguin Cafe Orchestra: The Penguin Cafe
Orchestra
Hey Martin, I think you better
get that new edition finished real quick!
Translation:
Last june, I went to Cologne to visit a friend
I'd first met Heike at Debconf7 in Edinburg, where we had much
fun playing some music together. So the next time we met, which was
at FOSDEM '08, she told me that she'd been playing in a band. As in, the
kind of people who make music profesionally. Which was really
cool. She also told me that this
band, which consists mainly of a Canadian couple, would be playing
in Cologne in early june, and that perhaps it'd be nice if I could come
over to watch.
Considering that'd be a nice excuse for a short holiday, I went, and had a great week
in Cologne. Since Heike and the others had to practice, I only saw them
in the evening; but Cologne is a great city, with interesting museums
and other things, so I would spend the day sightseeing in Cologne (and
Bonn on one day), and would be at the particular bar or whatever where
the concert would be in the evening. I had a great time. Before going
home, I bought one of their CDs, since I really liked the music.
Anyway, at this year's FOSDEM, Heike told me that there was a new CD
out (actually MP3 downloads), made from a recording that was done at one
of the concerts. So, today, I bought a copy.
Come to think of it, this is the first time I bought an album of a
concert that I actually went to, and where I did not perform
myself. After all, I don't really go to concerts all that
often unless I'll be on stage.
What's strange is that the music sounds slightly different from how I
remember it. The mind can do strange things... or is it the case that a
recording is not the real thing?
Probably. In any case, the music is great, so go check it out!
Dear all, I am currently assembling a talk that discusses if and how the
principles of free software can be applied to topics beyond operating
systems and software. The first things that come to mind are surely the Creative Commons, free music, free
films, free books etc. but I am sure that there is more, also even beyond
the digital world.
I already know a couple projects but I am looking for many many more!
So, what examples do you know for applications of the free software
philosophy that go beyond the usual software/OS area? I'd be happy for any
hints, urls, projects, authors, bands, names etc. that come to your mind!
To contact me, simply drop me an e-mail or prod me on irc
(alphascorpii on OFTC and freenode).
The Debian Python Modules Team is discussing which DVCS to switch to from SVN. Ondrej Certik asked how to generate a list of commiters to the team s repository, so I looked at it and got this:
emilio@saturno:~/deb/python-modules$ svn log egrep "^r[0-9]+ cut -f2 -d sed s/-guest// sort uniq -c sort -n -r
865 piotr
609 morph
598 kov
532 bzed
388 pox
302 arnau
253 certik
216 shlomme
212 malex
175 hertzog
140 nslater
130 kobold
123 nijel
121 kitterma
106 bernat
99 kibi
87 varun
83 stratus
81 nobse
81 netzwurm
78 azatoth
76 mca
73 dottedmag
70 jluebbe
68 zack
68 cgalisteo
61 speijnik
61 odd_bloke
60 rganesan
55 kumanna
52 werner
50 haas
48 mejo
45 ucko
43 pabs
42 stew
42 luciano
41 mithrandi
40 wardi
36 gudjon
35 jandd
34 smcv
34 brettp
32 jenner
31 davidvilla
31 aurel32
30 rousseau
30 mtaylor
28 thomasbl
26 lool
25 gaspa
25 ffm
24 adn
22 jmalonzo
21 santiago
21 appaji
18 goedson
17 toadstool
17 sto
17 awen
16 mlizaur
16 akumar
15 nacho
14 smr
14 hanska
13 tviehmann
13 norsetto
13 mbaldessari
12 stone
12 sharky
11 rainct
11 fabrizio
10 lash
9 rodrigogc
9 pcc
9 miriam
9 madduck
9 ftlerror
8 pere
8 crschmidt
7 ncommander
7 myon
7 abuss
6 jwilk
6 bdrung
6 atehwa
5 kcoyner
5 catlee
5 andyp
4 vt
4 ross
4 osrevolution
4 lamby
4 baby
3 sez
3 joss
3 geole
2 rustybear
2 edmonds
2 astraw
2 ana
1 twerner
1 tincho
1 pochu
1 danderson
emilio@saturno:~/deb/python-apps$ svn log egrep "^r[0-9]+ cut -f2 -d sed s/-guest// sort uniq -c sort -n -r
401 nijel
288 piotr
235 gothicx
159 pochu
76 nslater
69 kumanna
68 rainct
66 gilir
63 certik
52 vdanjean
52 bzed
46 dottedmag
41 stani
39 varun
37 kitterma
36 morph
35 odd_bloke
29 pcc
29 gudjon
28 appaji
25 thomasbl
24 arnau
20 sc
20 andyp
18 jalet
15 gerardo
14 eike
14 ana
13 dfiloni
11 tklauser
10 ryanakca
10 nxvl
10 akumar
8 sez
8 baby
6 catlee
4 osrevolution
4 cody-somerville
2 mithrandi
2 cjsmo
1 nenolod
1 ffm
And while I was on it, I thought I could do the same for the GNOME and GStreamer teams:
emilio@saturno:~/deb/pkg-gnome$ svn log egrep "^r[0-9]+ cut -f2 -d sed s/-guest// sort uniq -c sort -n -r
5357 lool
2701 joss
1633 slomo
1164 kov
825 seb128
622 jordi
621 jdassen
574 manphiz
335 sjoerd
298 mlang
296 netsnipe
291 grm
255 ross
236 ari
203 pochu
198 ondrej
190 he
180 kilian
176 alanbach
170 ftlerror
148 nobse
112 marco
87 jak
84 samm
78 rfrancoise
75 oysteigi
73 jsogo
65 svena
65 otavio
55 duck
54 jcurbo
53 zorglub
53 rtp
49 wasabi
49 giskard
42 tagoh
42 kartikm
40 gpastore
34 brad
32 robtaylor
31 xaiki
30 stratus
30 daf
26 johannes
24 sander-m
21 kk
19 bubulle
16 arnau
15 dodji
12 mbanck
11 ruoso
11 fpeters
11 dedu
11 christine
10 cpm
7 ember
7 drew
7 debotux
6 tico
6 emil
6 bradsmith
5 robster
5 carlosliu
4 rotty
4 diegoe
3 biebl
2 thibaut
2 ejad
1 naoliv
1 huats
1 gilir
emilio@saturno:~/deb/pkg-gstreamer$ svn log egrep "^r[0-9]+ cut -f2 -d sed s/-guest// sort uniq -c sort -n -r
891 lool
840 slomo
99 pnormand
69 sjoerd
27 seb128
21 manphiz
8 he
7 aquette
4 elmarco
1 fabian
(hint: pox-guest and piotr in python-modules are the same person)
In response to Lior:
How to know you're dating a free software guy?
You can recognize you're dating a free software guy by:
Here's one more post for my own little "advertising section", where I
introduce gender-related projects that I think are a good idea but deserve
some more publicity. So, last time we had geekspeakr.com,
this time I'd like to introduce to you the Eleonore Digital
Project.
In a nutshell they are organising a project where groups of students all
over Europe work together in creating an educational 3D computer game that
deals with the life of Eleanor of
Aquitaine. Each team is assigned an episode or a certain aspect of
Eleonore's life and they will research this, draft a concept and finally
create their respective part or episode of the game. Doing this they will
only work with free software, namely Debian as the Operating System, OOo,
Blender etc. A longer (and better) description of what they want to do
and the motivation behind all of this can be found in their project
description or on the Eleonore Project site
itself.
In my opinion the project seems to be a really good idea and I wish them
the best of luck! What I like most about it is that it is not exclusively
for girls, so that it does not create a kind of "artificial biotope" for
girls to work in. Instead it aims to rise the girls ratio by means of a
project topic that (so I assume) mostly appeals to girls. And I am
especially happy that when looking for a topic that appeals to girls they
came up with something better than fan homepages, foto love stories, and
what else you find in "girls IT projects" these days. I am pretty sure that
reading and researching on the life of one of the most influential women in
European history is going to do them much more good that creating
princess-themes webpages! I am also quite happy that they picked Debian as
their operating system. I think Debian being used in a school project is a
nice example that it is in fact not as "user-unfriendly" as it is often
claimed to be! I've also introduced the project to the Debian Women Project and Miriam
had the very good idea to also forward it to the Debian Games Team, so I
hope we'll get some good cooperation here.
As September is traditionally the "conference month" I'll be travelling
all around Germany within the next weeks. So, inspired by Matthew, here's a short
list of events I'll attend in September 2008. If anyone's up for a coffee,
keysigning or something let me know!
If you happen to be near Bremen, Germany around the 5.-7. September 2008
and have an interest in solidary economy, free software, renewable energies
and the like you might want to stop by at the 3rd Congress on
Solidary Economy (German website).
I haven't been at the first two of these congresses but I was invited as
a speaker for this one, so I'll be around at least on Saturday and probably
also on Sunday. I'll mainly be on a panel on free and open source software
which will take place on Saturday evening at 20:00. (Prime Time :)) But
I've also let myself be talked into joining another panel at 17:00 which is
somehow ubuntu-related (Communtu). I am not yet sure if I'll have much to
contribute there, I am neither a ubuntu specialist nor particularly fond of
it, but the organiser said he wouldn't mind and he'd welcome critical
remarks just as much, so, we'll see.
I am really looking forward to being a speaker on an event again! Ever
since I started my PhD I've been much too busy to attend (leave alone
prepare talks for) as many events as I'd have liked. I hope the situation
will improve next year when things get rolling with my PhD. (Currently
still in a "topic orientation/find a project/write proposals" state
...)
Next.