Search Results: "Daniel Baumann"

25 April 2007

Chris Lamb: Hi, Planet Debian.

In the upcoming holidays I’ll be working with Daniel Baumann on a graphical user interface to Debian Live thanks to the Google Summer of Code (I posted my full proposal to debian-live-devel if you want to read more). Thanks to Daniel for agreeing to be my mentor. This is my first post to Planet Debian, by the way. A few people might have met me at certain events, but if you haven’t I’m a kinda average hacker-type with a short attention span, long hair, broken sleeping patterns and above-average caffeine requirements. I’m currently a student at the University of Warwick and first started using Debian with “Slink”. If I’m missing anything, or you just want to say hi, please post a comment.

19 April 2007

Daniel Baumann: Debian Live and Google Summer of Code 2007

Debian is this year again part of Google's Summer of Code. Last week, the final decisions about the proposed projects were made and Google granted 9 slots in total for Debian. I am very glad to say that Chris 'lamby' Lambs proposal for Debian Live is amongst those. Here is the abstract from his proposal: 
	Live-helper is a utility to build CD, DVD, netboot and USB-stick live
	images of Debian, a GNU/Linux operating system. It boasts support for
	multiple architectures, auto-building images, amongst many other
	features.
	Live-helper is extremely flexible, allowing interested parties to create
	their own system completely specific to their needs, including support
	for custom package lists, kernel parameters, encryption, additional
	commands to configure the live system etc.
	My proposal is to construct a graphical user interface that can be used
	in conjunction with live-helper to build Debian Live systems, allowing
	editing of existing configurations and including a 'wizard'-style
	walkthrough for the first-time user.
	Providing less experienced users with the opportunity to easily create
	live distributions will generate more exposure for live-helper,
	providing more valuable feedback for its developers and ultimately
	helping Debian's image as an extremely flexible and free operating
	system.
	The GUI will be written in Python using the pygtk GTK+ bindings.
The next step on the timeline begins at May 28th, where the students start coding on their projects. I am happily looking forward to it.

15 April 2007

Mario Iseli: End of holidays, some experiences

So, this is my last evening (and when I remember correctly the first one I’m at home) of my holidays. All began last Friday called “Karfreitag”, a national holiday. To be correct, the first party was already on Thursday and they continued daily till Monday evening. The best event in this time was Sunday afternoon, some minutes after I waked up Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 aka Etch was released, what a feeling. It was especially interesting because it’s the first stable release with some of my packages and it was a great experience to see how releasing and planning works. I often think back to the two bug squashing parties in Zurich, one in September and one in October iirc. Back to my holidays: First it was planned that I go with my sister to Zurich from Monday evening till Thursday evening, but then I got a appalling call from madduck who told me that he is in the hospital in Zurich with several broken bones. We planned to sleep in madducks flat and so we couldn’t get the key and went Tuesday morning. Walking through Zurich, getting some informational material from the University Zurich for my Sister (she maybe wants to study there) and the visiting madduck. After the visit we went again to the center of the city and walked without a real destination. In the evening we finally went to Oerlikon and went to “our” flat. After installing our sleep places (goddamn, I want to have a waterbed) we went to Migros to buy some food and drinks for the evening and the next day. The next day we really got up quite early and visited Zurich with a city guide, a lot of sightseeing and hanging in some bars. In the afternoon Daniel Baumann also was in Zurich and we went to have a drink together and also Tobias Ast came and staid with us till the next evening. We really had fun together and the main thing we did on Thursday was relaxing on the lake of Zurich and in the evening we went home. Then it was finally friday, I looked forward to this day for about one week, why? The release party in Zurich!! It was my first release party on the Irchel area in Zurich, we grilled, had some beer together and talked about god and the world. It also was the first time i met Adrian von Bidder and Mathias St rmer in person, especially with Adrian i had a longer interesting discussion about network devices from Cisco and their special prices. :-) Saturday was already the next party day. When I was 13 we had a supply teacher for our sick teacher for 2 months, I was her horror pupil. Fine - some weeks ago I met her again in a Pub in the evening and we staid together the whole evening and became good friends in a way, so I was also invited (as the only of her pupils) to her flat share party. I met several “new” people and some of them (mostly IT students) recognized my Debian t-shirt and I had some interesting discussions about free software and had to explain the philosophy of Debian to some of them. So yes, now it’s sunday, I’m more tired than before my holidays but I’m really happy, my holidays were great because of some adventures. Regards to all to my friends… Tomorrow I will continue working and have several tasks open, especially upgrading some Debian servers from Sarge to Etch (Spamfilters, LDAP, Proxy servers…) and I hope I won’t have many troubles. In addition I have also some tasks open for Debian which I’d like to complete this week.

8 April 2007

Daniel Baumann: After the release is before the release

Now that Debian Etch is released, we can finally start working on Lenny. For me, amongst normal package maintainer tasks, this includes: However, I'm seeing mass bug filing times coming! :) ...right, and parties too.

5 April 2007

Mario Iseli: See you in Edinburgh!

Some minutes ago I saw the mail of Joerg Jaspert announcing food and accomodation sponsorship for all who applied in time. I applied at the end of december, exactly at the day where pentabarf was installed and announced on debian-devel-announce, so I will attend. Together with Daniel Baumann I already bought the flight (but I paid my one on my own since I earn a bit money), I will attend Debconf7 from 16th to 24th of June. I think you can’t imagine how happy I am right now and so I would like to say THANK YOU to all sponsors and the Debconf team who organizes all that stuff! I’m looking forward to see as many of you as possible in Edi :)

4 April 2007

Daniel Baumann: See you in .sco

Flying from Switzerland to Scotland is not very expensive, but it is still more than I can afford myself. This year, I got sponsorship for my ticket to DebConf7 in the first round, so I am able to attend from 9th to 24th June, jippie! :) Thanks a lot to all the DebConf people and sponsors. I do very, very appreciate your work.

14 March 2007

Nico Golde: New Maintainer

Today I got accepted as Debian Developer. I would like to thank the following people (in random order) for their involvment in my NM, mentoring and sponsoring uploads.

Philipp Kern, Michael Schiansky, Daniel Baumann, H ctor Garc a, Norbert Tretkowski, Werner Heuser, Marc Brockschmidt, Lars Wirzenius, Christoph Berg, J rg Jaspert, James Troup, Martin Krafft (feel yourself added if I forgot you, hopefully not)

Oh and congratulations Holger.

13 March 2007

Kai Hendry: Debian activities

Debian net boot Of late I have been:

7 March 2007

Daniel Baumann: Re: Everybody loves the Debian cabal - 3: French torture

Josselin, I feel flattered that I play a role in your latest Debian cabal strip, I found the past two very funny. However, I don't get the joke of the third one: I do not have any package in Debian using debconf. Are you mistaking me for someone else?

22 February 2007

Ben Armstrong: make-live -p gnome-junior

Ever since I started working towards a Debian Jr. livecd back in November, I’ve played off and on with qemu, approx and debian-live. Yesterday, I took another kick at the can. Being frustrated with make-live’s inability to combine two package lists, Daniel Baumann came to my rescue, promptly commiting and then releasing live-package 0.99.23-1 with three new package lists for Debian Jr. So now we have something to play with. Try it out. Install live-package 0.99.23-1 or later, configure /etc/make-live.conf to set LIVE_MIRROR to your favourite mirror (I use the apt caching proxy approx to avoid re-downloading the same packages from one run to the next) and pick an image and type to build, e.g. 
$ sudo make-live -t usb -p gnome-junior
This makes a ./debian-live/binary.img that can be put on a 1G usb key flashdrive. We have more work to do to polish this. Particularly, since the GNOME and KDE flavours are larger than a 700M CD, some fat could be trimmed. If you’ve tried it, I’d love to hear your ideas on debian-jr@lists.debian.org.

17 February 2007

Daniel Baumann: Debian Live Encryption

In the past, the (compressed) filesystem image was always unencrypted. Thanks to a patch from Sebastien Raveau, live-package 0.9.22-1 and casper 1.81+debian-2 now supports encrypted live filesystems through loop-aes.

10 February 2007

Daniel Baumann: Debian Live USB

In the past, live-package was only able to build ISO images and netboot tarballs. Then, I added the 'usb' target and as of today, with live-package 0.99.20-1, all autobuild flavours are also available as images for USB memory sticks. As before, the images can be downloaded from http://live.debian.net/.

6 February 2007

Gunnar Wolf: Free KQemu - Yay!

I've been feeling dirty lately - For my netadmin tasks, I've been heavily relying on running virtualized instances of the various MS Windows flavors, to check for compatibility with my work. Of course, being a zealot, I would not run VMWare (as it is grossly non-free from every possible angle) - I used Qemu. I'm also, however, impatient as hell - If I'm going to suffer from the sluggishness of the typical Microsoft desktop OS, I just don't want to suffer from emulation slugishness as well! Of course, the KQemu kernel accelerator module came to my rescue. I felt tainted, as it was just free as in beer.
Well, today the sun rose, and the world looks shinier. Yes, it's chilly in Mexico City (around 5 Celsius), but great news always make the sun shine brighter: First thing I read in the morning, http://lwn.net/Articles/220807/">KQEMU 1.3.0pre10 released - under the GPL! Of course, it's echoed at Barrapunto. Even better, it took little time for Mike Hommey to post it into Planet Debian. Better still, Daniel Baumann has already packaged and uploaded it to NEW (and has an APT repository already set up with unofficial packages). Ftp-masters, please, issue the dear green light soon! :-D
/me does the dance of joy

Daniel Baumann: Re: kqemu is free !

Mike, I just uploaded the new kqemu to experimental, it is currently waiting in NEW, and also available here: http://archive.daniel-baumann.ch/debian/packages/kqemu/.

5 February 2007

Daniel Baumann: Debian Live Autobuild

In the past, I uploaded manually new Debian Live images once or twice per month. Then, I setup a new server some weeks ago and as of today, the following flavours are now autobuilt weekly for testing and daily for unstable (currently i386 only): All images can be downloaded from http://live.debian.net/.

1 February 2007

Martin F. Krafft: For Those Who Care About: Switzerland/Liechtenstein

On 13 Nov 2006, Daniel Baumann, Adrian von Bidder, and I instantiated the debian.ch club as official representative of the Debian project in Switzerland and the Principality of Liechtenstein. This task had been previously delegated to me by our leader, Anthony Towns. We waited until now with the announcement due to some outstanding issues that had to be resolved first. debian.ch is a non-profit organisation with the expressed purpose to represent, hold assets for, and further the Debian project in the aforementioned two countries. At this moment, we're only a legal entity with no specific plans for activities and exist mainly to be able to receive donations. Also, due to time constraints, we are not accepting membership applications at this point in time. This may, obviously, change in the future, accompanied with an appropriate announcement. You can contact us at info t debian d t ch or admire our design skillz at http://debian.ch, which we will eventually translate to English, and probably Italian and French. As you can see, the domain name is still registered to the previous holder, but the transfer to our organisation has already been approved to take place at the end of the subscription on 31 Dec 2007. As first official act, I herewith announce the nomination of Mark J Ray as an honorary member of debian.ch. Honorary members have no rights and no obligations, but they also cannot quit. NP: The Postal Service / Give Up

25 January 2007

Daniel Baumann: Re: Pimp My Boot Process

Bastian, people (including me) wanted to do this, the progress or rather its resignation is logged here #383248 (sad, when remebering that I had no problem to hand over the ITP: #356193).

21 January 2007

Daniel Baumann: Re: Package Maintenance

My last entry is maybe not so well understandable. In a mail between Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta and me, he put it in much better words than I could: 
	Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 14:05:29 +0100
	From: Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta <agi@inittab.org>
	To: Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>
	Subject: Re: [late]Thanks for your work
	On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 01:08:48PM +0100, Daniel Baumann wrote:
	> Hi agi,
	>
	> the orphaning of some packages wasn't ment as a signal to get 'please
	> thank me' or so, nevertheless, thanks for your mail.
	I know it wasn't meant to be that. But I really appreciate the work of
	some DDs, specially those that do their job, mind their businesses AND
	don't make of it a power position. Those hundreds of DDs or the like,
	that simply like this as is, and don't make of it a power struggle or a
	cabal thing. And you are one of them, as others I could name are.
	> I was taking care about 2 to 5 hours every day and nearly all of the
	> weekends to keep my packages in shape. All I got from this is rants
	> withouth any concrete background like 'look at him, he has so much
	> packages, they can't be good. They must be crap, it's impossible for one
	> person'. Also, some people in Debian do have a problem when people do
	> more than they do themself, and they're hating the others for that.
	Yep, that's what I meant. Those that are looking for competition... In
	a free software community. Morons.
	> Now, I'm just tired of that and went down from ~150 to ~100 packages. I
	> think, I did not point that out very clearly.
However, I am not going MIA now. I still care about my packages, but for a smaller number of them (reducing them in a second orphaning round down to ~50 in a few weeks). And don't worry, there will be no more entries about this topic from me. Thanks Alberto and the few others who replied.

19 January 2007

Daniel Baumann: Package Maintenance

For the nearly last 3 years, I was investing all of my spare time into maintaining packages in Debian. I tried to do it as good as I can. However, since about half a year, I got constantly flamed purely for the fact of having about 150 packages in the archive. I never have expected to get any positive feedback or even something like a thank, we all are doing our Debian work on a volunteer basis, because we are able to do it and especially because we want to do it. I can even life with it, when people like to only point to the single two not good things I ever did, reducing me to them to make me look bad, and I also accept that some people are not able to forgive as I do, to forgive when others are making uniquely (unimportant) failures. Today, I decided that I do not longer have the energy to resist those people and to give up that struggle now. In the next few days, I am changing my commitment to Debian by orphaning about the half of my packages. I hope that at least those people who are constantly against me no matter what I do, are confident know: You are the winners and I have failed. Fortunately, I am completely unimportant for Debian and thus easy replaceable by any random other human beeing. I am looking forward to see better times now, having more time for Debian Live, where the fun is, and where the people all are friendly and respectful towards each other.

14 January 2007

Julien Blache: Oh, the irony

Daniel Baumann writing a packaging & sponsoring guide, advertising it on -mentors just after having demonstrated his gaps in basic packaging knowledge on the very same list (not even mentioning the kqemu debacle on -release a couple of days ago). Somebody please tell me it’s only a bad dream. Wait, if this was a dream, I could have kicked his ass already. Damn.

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