Your Social Dysfunction: Paranoid You show pervasive and unwarranted suspiciousness, and mistrust of others. You are overly sensitive and prone to jealousy.

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Since sfllaw hasn't blogged about it, we're having a little get together on Saturday at Hurley's at 5:00. In the spirit of "the more, the merrier" (hope that's ok with you Simon), if you're a wannabe Debian developer come buy us drinks. I promise to sign the key of anyone who buys me a pint (how's that for a web-of-trust?).

I've been spending a lot of time this week working on bugs in the Firefox package in Debian. In the wake of Firefox 1.5 I've been going through the bug list closing things left and right, fixing up tags and merging, asking for followups and reassigning the rest from mozilla-firefox to firefox. I've been at this for some hours and I'm still not even halfway done I think. Moral of the story: If you love your maintainer or want to help Debian, find a package with a load of bugs and help sort through them.

A recent post by Ingo Juergensmann lamenting m68k not making the cut in this round of architecture qualifications. While it is a shame I think, I don't think it's necessarily the end of the world and his complaint that developers will now stop fixing bugs is crazy. Just because they're suddenly not release critical doesn't mean (good) maintainers will be unwilling to fix them. Most architecture bugs are toolchain bugs (ie not the package maintainer's fault), general types of architecture bugs (eg endianess, int size) that affect more than one architecture and tend to get fixed quickly and easily and really freaking hard problems that most package maintainers don't have the skill to fix on their own (eg #343687, help!). But if someone submits a bug that's trivial to fix, or gives me a patch, that bug will get fixed. I don't like bugs in my packages and probably most other developers don't either.

I just uploaded firefox 1.5.dfsg-3 to unstable and it should get in to archive today. It should fix issues with plugins not being found and the remaining branding issue with the about dialog box. The Mozilla trademark and branding stuff still bugs me. I understand their desire to not let anyone use their name on some broken all to hell version, but to require anyone who is distributing their software to jump through hoops to actually call it "Firefox", that no one else seems to require, seems fairly arrogant. They also seem to be more interested in the business aspects of things rather than the community that got them where they are.

Call me a grinch if you must. Merry Christmas.

I love ndusart, but I think she's more messed up than me sometimes.

After some legitimate delays and some procrastination, opensc 0.10.0 should be sitting in the NEW queue waiting for the ftp-master divine blessing to go into unstable. There was a bit split up of the package in this version, and it took me a while to get all the bits packaged up, and I still haven't finished the new pam modules. Should get a chance to package those over the holidays. Back to working on Firefox now.

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Well I just got a rejection letter from the JET Programme, so no Japan for me this year. I wish the rejection letter gave some clue as to why I was not a suitable candidate. I can try again next year, maybe get a TESL certificate to improve my odds. At least mricon won't have to look for a new roommate come August.

I was feeling a bit left out of the whole blogging craze, not having a blog myself. I never felt I had to many interesting things to say, but I'd often wanted to respond to someone else blog posting with one of my own (as seems fashionable these days). And my roommate, mricon, seems to have a nice blog, so my competitive spirit has been awakened. I'm hoping this won't be the first and last post.

Well now that GNOME 2.12 has hit unstable, it has kindly removed a feature I liked. The Keyboard Preferences applet used to allow me to do nice things like change Caps Lock to a Control key, and add turn a stupid Windows key into a highly useful Compose key. But I guess that was too much power for the user, so it got the axe in 2.12. I really think GNOME could benefit from some sort of global "Power User" switch, to allow actual customization. Anyone have a recipe for enabling Compose with xkb?

Your Inner European is Dutch!

Open minded and tolerant. You're up for just about anything.

Funny thing is I look like that some mornings.

I wish there was a better way to handle conffile renames than the method outlined at dpkg.org. Be nice if there was a way to pressed the checksum, so the conffile handler could just be used naturally, instead of bypassing it with a bit of a hack. Makes me a bit uncomfortable to just accept the users changes without prompting him on upgrade (as would happen with this recipe). If anyone has a better idea, it would really help me with #345112. Reading Jacobo's post makes me wish I had proposed a DebConf talk, BoF, whatnot on Trademarks and Free Software, and maybe promote some better discussion than the last time this was on the mailing lists. ndusart is coming for the weekend! Haven't seen her in two months, so I'm understandably, ridiculously excited. Better lend mricon my earplugs.

Your Social Dysfunction: Paranoid You show pervasive and unwarranted suspiciousness, and mistrust of others. You are overly sensitive and prone to jealousy.

Take this quiz at QuizGalaxy.com Please note that we aren't, nor do we claim to be, psychologists. This quiz is for fun and entertainment only. Try not to freak out about your results.

Since sfllaw hasn't blogged about it, we're having a little get together on Saturday at Hurley's at 5:00. In the spirit of "the more, the merrier" (hope that's ok with you Simon), if you're a wannabe Debian developer come buy us drinks. I promise to sign the key of anyone who buys me a pint (how's that for a web-of-trust?).

I've been spending a lot of time this week working on bugs in the Firefox package in Debian. In the wake of Firefox 1.5 I've been going through the bug list closing things left and right, fixing up tags and merging, asking for followups and reassigning the rest from mozilla-firefox to firefox. I've been at this for some hours and I'm still not even halfway done I think. Moral of the story: If you love your maintainer or want to help Debian, find a package with a load of bugs and help sort through them.

A recent post by Ingo Juergensmann lamenting m68k not making the cut in this round of architecture qualifications. While it is a shame I think, I don't think it's necessarily the end of the world and his complaint that developers will now stop fixing bugs is crazy. Just because they're suddenly not release critical doesn't mean (good) maintainers will be unwilling to fix them. Most architecture bugs are toolchain bugs (ie not the package maintainer's fault), general types of architecture bugs (eg endianess, int size) that affect more than one architecture and tend to get fixed quickly and easily and really freaking hard problems that most package maintainers don't have the skill to fix on their own (eg #343687, help!). But if someone submits a bug that's trivial to fix, or gives me a patch, that bug will get fixed. I don't like bugs in my packages and probably most other developers don't either.

I just uploaded firefox 1.5.dfsg-3 to unstable and it should get in to archive today. It should fix issues with plugins not being found and the remaining branding issue with the about dialog box. The Mozilla trademark and branding stuff still bugs me. I understand their desire to not let anyone use their name on some broken all to hell version, but to require anyone who is distributing their software to jump through hoops to actually call it "Firefox", that no one else seems to require, seems fairly arrogant. They also seem to be more interested in the business aspects of things rather than the community that got them where they are.

Call me a grinch if you must. Merry Christmas.

I love ndusart, but I think she's more messed up than me sometimes.

After some legitimate delays and some procrastination, opensc 0.10.0 should be sitting in the NEW queue waiting for the ftp-master divine blessing to go into unstable. There was a bit split up of the package in this version, and it took me a while to get all the bits packaged up, and I still haven't finished the new pam modules. Should get a chance to package those over the holidays. Back to working on Firefox now.