The nice developers of Sympa (Mailing list manager) have been very kind to send me a new gift T-Shirt. I ve not been a great contributor to sympa, but helped in keeping it in shape in Debian a few years from now. Very nice way to thank contributors, IMHO. Keep up the good work, CRU guys.

To summarize some ideas and try and promote the work we ve done in the frame of Helios, we ve submitted a short paper (PDF) to the triplification challenge. Alas, others had better projects, and we didn t win, apparently. Still, we ll continue to work beyond these initial demonstrators, in order to try and push for a standard of interchange of facts / meta-data about bugs, for instance as RDF using the EvoOnt BOM ontology plus our extensions. The paper describes the 2 first demonstrators that we ve setup (and for which I previously blogged) : one for the triplification of bugzilla, and one for the triplification about Debian bugs, using UDD to do so.

Abstract: To interconnect bugtrackers, and especially the one used to manage free
software projects, one need tools to convert their custom format to a common interop-
erable form. We, in the context of the Helios project, are working on refining existing
ontologies to describe bugs from the most used bugtrackers in open source software. We
propose two prototypes for review, based on triplify and EvoOnt BOM, which export
bugs from bugzilla installations and Debian s UDD in the form of RDF triples.

Read the rest in Bugtrackers triplification (PDF)

Hi all Debian news addicts. If all goes well, I should now be part of the Debian planet, thanks to the good Planet Maintainers. In a few words, I m a Debian Maintainer, and long time Debian fan (although sometimes disappointed by it, but love hate relationship is sustainable in the long run, it seems ;)). My most significant contributions have been on helping maintain bts-link and generally I m interested very much in bugtracking, Semantic Web, and tying that with what s done in Debian and more generally in Free Software. I m focusing on these aspects as part of our Helios project funded to work on producing FLOSS My debian tag s feed will tell more about me and my progress in contributing to Debian, from now on.

Top posters in a few Debian-related Planets:

$ planet-scores.sh 
Planet Debian-FR :
     19 Rapha l Hertzog
      4 Roland Mas
      3 Jean-Christophe Dubacq
      2 Gr gory Colpart
      2 Alexis Sukrieh

Sometimes I think this should be renamed Planet Buxy.

Planet Debian-FR (utilisateurs) :
     10 Julien Candelier
      8 Emilien Macchi
      4 Guilhem Bonnefille
      3 Shams Fantar
      1 Rapha l Hertzog
      1 Olivier Berger (perso)
      1 Jean-Christophe Dubacq
      1 Jean-Baptiste H tier (djib)
      1 Eric Veiras Galisson

Newly added contributors to that planet have all their recent articles aggregated, not only the ones they wrote since they were added.

Planet Debian :
     40 Christian Perrier
      2 Russell Coker
      2 Raphael Geissert
      1 Wouter Verhelst
      1 Steve Kemp
      1 Romain Francoise
      1 NOKUBI Takatsugu
      1 Michal  iha 
      1 John Goerzen
      1 Joey Schulze
      1 Gerfried Fuchs
      1 Fathi Boudra
      1 Enrico Zini
      1 Emanuele Rocca
      1 Dirk Eddelbuettel
      1 David Welton
      1 Christine Spang
      1 Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
      1 Adam Rosi-Kessel

Planet "Christian loves rugby".

debian-community.org :
      4 Holger Levsen
      3 Andrew Donnellan
      2 Evgeni Golov
      1 Wolfgang Lonien
      1 Rapha l Hertzog
      1 Martin Albisetti
      1 Marcos Marado
      1 Jean-Christophe Dubacq
      1 Cord Beermann
      1 Benjamin A'Lee
      1 Andreas Putzo
$

I know I have an encoding problem on some planets, but that script is a very basic curl+shell+sed+grep+recode+sort+uniq pipeline, and I only use it for the amusement value. Maybe I'll recode it with a proper RSS parser some day if I feel utterly bored.