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22 August 2016

Christian Perrier: [LIFE] Running activities - Ultra Trail du Mont-Blanc

Hello dear readers, It's been ages since I last blogged. Being far less active in Debian than I've been in the past, I guess this is a logical consequence. However, I'm still active as you may witness if you read the debian-boot mailing list : I still consider myself part of the D-I team and I'm maintaining a few sports-related packages. Most know what has taken precedence over Debian development, namely trail and ultra-trail running. And, well, it hasn't decreased, far from that : I ran about 10 races already this year....6 of them being above 50km and I ran my favourite 100km moutain race in early July for the second year in a row. So, the upcoming week, I'll be trying to reach what is usually considered as the Grail of ultra-trail runners : the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc race in Chamonix. The race is fairly simple : run all around the Mont-Blanc summits, for a 160km race with a bit less than 10,000 meters positive climb. The race itself takes place between 800 and 2700 meters (so no "high mountain") and I expect to complete it (if I succeed) in about 40 hours. I'm very confident (maybe too much?) as I successfully completed a much more difficult race last year (only 144km, but over 11,000 meters positive climb and a much more difficult path...it took me over 50 hours to complete it). You can follow me on the live tracking site. The race starts on Friday August 26th, 18:00 CET DST. I everything goes well, I have great projects for next year, including a 100-mile race in Colorado in August (we'll be traveling in USA for over 3 weeks, peaking with the solar eclipse of August 21st in Kansas City).

25 September 2015

Christian Perrier: Bugs #780000 - 790000

Thorsten Glaser reported Debian bug #780000 on Saturday March 7th 2015, against the gcc-4.9 package. Bug #770000 was reported as of November 18th so there have been 10,000 bugs in about 3.5 months, which was significantly slower than earlier. Salvatore Bonaccorso reported Debian bug #790000 on Friday June 26th 2015, against the pcre3 package. Thus, there have been 10,000 bugs in 3.5 months again. It seems that the bug report rate stabilized again. Sorry for missing bug #780000 annoucement. I'm doing this since....November 2007 for bug #450000 and it seems that this lack of attention is somehow significant wrt my involvment in Debian. Still, this involvment is still here and I'll try to "survive" in the project until we reach bug #1000000...:-) See you for bug #800000 annoucement and the result of the bets we placed on the date it would happen.

Christian Perrier: Bug #800000 has been reported...Tomasz Muras wins a 2.5-year-old bet..:-)

Here it is. Debian had eight hundred thousand bugs reported in its history. Tomasz Muras guessed, more than 2 years ago, that it would be reported on September 24h, and it has been reported on 25th. Good catch! Chris Lamb is the happy bug submitter for this release critical bug against the vdr-plugin-prefermenu package. Of course, I will soon open the wiki page for the bug #900000 bet, which will again include a place where you can also bet for bug #1000000. Be patient, the week-end is coming..:-) It took two years, 7 months and 18 days to report 100,000 bugs in Debian since bug #700000 was reported.

22 August 2015

Christian Perrier: [LIFE] Running activities - Echappee Belle next week

Hello dear readers, Next week, I'll be running the "Echappee Belle" race : 144km and 10.000 meters positive climb, in French Alps (Belledonne range, this time). That will be, by far, my longest race ever and indeed a great challenge for me with very difficult tracks (when there are tracks). I expect to run for about 48 hours, or even up to 55, two nights out.....or maybe less as I'm in very good shape. You can follow me on the live tracking site. The race starts on Friday August 28th, 06:00 CET DST.

1 July 2015

Christian Perrier: [LIFE] Running activities

Hello dear readers, It has been quite some time since I blogged on Planet Debian,so today, I just want to give some news to fellow Debian pals. My involvment in Debian is still there. I'm probably less visible nowadays, but I'm still actively working on some packages, monotiring some i18n activities and doing work on D-I. But, as you know, running has taken precedence nowadays and is still becoming a growing part of my life (along with my family, of course). This year, I had a first "summit" running the "Vulcain" trail race in French "Massif Central" (mountains in Central France), which was 80km and 3000m positive climb race. It was run mostly in snow and with quite bad weather conditions, a good training for more difficult races. I completed it in about more than 12 hours, for a race that finally had less than 60% finishers. Later on, most races were preparation races for the summer moutain races : I mostly ran three 50km trail races in the Paris and neighbourhood area. All of them were very good results with a good feeling. Some were run along with friends from the Kikourou.net web community, where I am now very active. My training was also strongly increased wrt former years (yes that *is* possible), peaking at more than 500km during May, where I was mostly on holidays all month long (lucky man). And now, the first Great Great Thing of the year is coming : La Montagn'hard, 110 kilometers, about 9000 meters positive climb, around Les Contamines, close to Mont-Blanc in French Alps. That is a Big One, indeed. Technically more difficult than the TDS race I ran last August, during DebConf (120km, but "only" 7000 meters climb). Montagn'hard is indeed known as one of the most difficult moutain trail races in France. I plan to complete it in about 29 hours....but that can indeed be 30, 32 or even 35, who knows what can happen? Given the very high temperatures over Europe this week (they'll peak at about 38 C on Saturday in the Alps), that will be an incredibly difficult challenge and we expect about only 40% finishers. A live tracking will be available for thos who care at http://chrono.geofp.com/montagnhard2015/v3/. Wish me luck ! Next challenge will be end of August, with the "Echappee Belle" race : 144km and 10.000 meters positive climb, still in French Alps (Belledonne range, this time). About 48 hours, or even up to 55, two nights out.....harder and hopefully better, faster, stronger...:-)

27 June 2015

Christian Perrier: Bugs #780000 - 790000

Thorsten Glaser reported Debian bug #780000 on Saturday March 7th 2015, against the gcc-4.9 package. Bug #770000 was reported as of November 18th so there have been 10,000 bugs in about 3.5 months, which was significantly slower than earlier. Matthew Vernon reported Debian bug #790000 on Friday June 26th 2015, against the pcre3 package. Thus, there have been 10,000 bugs in 3.5 months again. It seems that the bug report rate stabilized again. Sorry for missing bug #780000 annoucement. I'm doing this since....November 2007 for bug #450000 and it seems that this lack of attention is somehow significant wrt my involvment in Debian. Still, this involvment is still here and I'll try to "survive" in the project until we reach bug #1000000...:-) See you for bug #800000 annoucement and the result of the bets we placed on the date it would happen.

12 February 2015

Christian Perrier: Bug #777777

Who is going to report bug #777777? :-)

18 November 2014

Christian Perrier: Bug #770000

Martin Pitt reported Debian bug #770000 on Tuesday November 18th, against the release.debian.org pseudo-package. Bug #760000 was reported as of August 30th: so there have been 10,000 bugs reported in 3 months minus 12 days. The bug rate increased quite significantly during the last weeks. We can suspect this is related to the release and the freeze (that triggers many unblock requests) I find it interesting that this bug is directly related to the release, directly related to systemd and originated from one of the systemd packages maintainers, if I'm right. So, I'll take this opportunity to publicly thank all people who have brought the systemd packages to what they are now, whether or not they're still maintaining the package. We've all witnessed that Debian if facing a strong social issue nowadays and I'm very deeply sad about this. I hope we'll be able to go through this without losing too many brilliant contributors, as it happened recently. Please prove me right and do The Right Thing for me to be able to continue this silly "round bug number" contest and still believe that, some day, bug #1000000 will really happen and I'm still there to witness it. Ah, and by the way, systemd bloody works on my system. I can't even remember when I switched to it. It Just Worked.

1 September 2014

Christian Perrier: Bug #760000

Ren Mayorga reported Debian bug #760000 on Saturday August 30th, against the pyfribidi package. Bug #750000 was reported as of May 31th: nearly exactly 3 months for 10,000 bugs. The bug rate increased a little bit during the last weeks, probably because of the freeze approaching. We're therefore getting more clues about the time when bug #800000 for which we have bets. will be reported. At current rate, this should happen in one year. So, the current favorites are Knuth Posern or Kartik Mistry. Still, David Pr vot, Andreas Tille, Elmar Heeb and Rafael Laboissiere have their chances, too, if the bug rate increases (I'll watch you guys: any MBF by one of you will be suspect...:-)).

28 August 2014

Gunnar Wolf: Ongoing crypto handling discussions

I love to see there is a lot of crypto discussions going on at DebConf. Maybe I'm skewed by my role as keyring-maint, but I have been involved in more than one discussion every day on what do/should signatures mean, on best key handling practices, on some ideas to make key maintenance better, on how the OpenPGPv4 format lays out a key and its components on disk, all that. I enjoy some of those discussions pose questions that leave me thinking, as I am quite far from having all answers. Discussions should be had face to face, but some start online and deserve to be answered online (and also pose opportunity to become documentation). Simon Josefsson blogs about The case for short OpenPGP key validity periods. This will be an important issue to tackle, as we will soon require keys in the Debian keyring to have a set expiration date (surprise surprise!) and I agree with Simon, setting an expiration date far in the future means very little. There is a caveat with using, as he suggests, very short expiry periods: We have a human factor sitting in the middle. Keyring updates in Debian are done approximately once a month, and I do not see the period shortening. That means, only once a month we (currently Jonathan McDowell and myself, and we expect to add Daniel Kahn Gillmor soon) take the full changeset and compile a new keyring that replaces the active one in Debian. This means that if you have, as Simon suggests, a 100-day validity key, you have to remember to update it at least every 70 days, or you might be locked out during the days it takes us to process it. I set my expiration period to two years, although I might shorten it to only one. I expect to add checks+notifications before we enable this requirement project-wide (so that Debian servers will mail you when your key is close to expiry); I think that mail can be sent at approximately [expiry date - 90 days] to give you time both to you and to us to act. Probably the optimal expiration periods under such conditions would be between 180 and 365 days. But, yes, this is by far not yet a ruling, but a point in the discussion. We still have some days of DebConf, and I'll enjoy revising this point. And Simon, even if we correct some bits for these details, I'd like to have your permission to use this fine blog post as part of our documentation! (And on completely unrelated news: Congratulations to our dear and very much missed friend Bubulle for completely losing his sanity and running for 28 hours and a half straight! He briefly describes this adventure when it was about to start, and we all want him to tell us how it was. Mr. Running French Guy, you are amazing!)

26 August 2014

Christian Perrier: [life] Follow bubulle running adventures....

Just in case some of my free software friends would care and try understanding why I'm currently not attending my first DebConf since 2004... Starting tomorrow 07:00am EST (so, 22:00 PST for Debconfers), I'll be running the "TDS" race of the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc races. Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc (UTMB) is one of the world famous long distance moutain trail races. It takes places in Chamonix, just below the Mont-Blanc, France's and Europe's highest moutain. The race is indeed simple : "go around the Mont-Blanc in a big circle, 160km long, with 10,000 meters positive climb cumulated on the climb of about 10 high passes between 2000 and 2700 meters altitude". "My" race is a shortened version of UTMB that does half of the full loop, from Courmayeur in Italy (just "the other side" of Mont-Blanc, from Chamonix) and goes back to Chamonix. It is "only" 120 kilometers long with 7200 meters of positive climb. Some of these are however know as more difficult than UTMB itself. Many firsts for me in this race : first "over 100km", first "over 24 hours running". Still, I trained hard for this, achieved a very though race in early July (60km, 5000m climb) with a very good result, and I expect to make it well. Top runners complete this in 17 hours.....last arrivals are expected after 33 hours "running" (often fast walking, indeed). I plan to achieve the race in 28 hours but, indeed, I have no idea..:-) So, in case you're boring in a night hacklab, or just want to draw your attention out of IRC, or don't have any package to polish...or just want to have a thought for an old friend, you can try to use the following link and follow all this live : http://utmb.livetrail.net/coureur.php?rech=6384 =en Race start : 7am EST, Wednesday Aug 27th. bubulle arrival: Thursday Aug. 28th, between 10am and 4pm (best projection is 11am). And there will be cheese at pit stops....

29 July 2014

Christian Perrier: Developers per country (July 2014)

This is time again for my annual report about the number of developers per country. This is now the sixth edition of this report. Former editions: So, here we are with the July 2014 version, sorted by the ratio of *active* developers per million population for each country.
Act: number of active developers
Dev: total number of developers
A/M: number of active devels per million pop.
D/M: number of devels per million pop.
2009: rank in 2009
2010: rank in 2010
2011: rank in 2011 (June)
2012: rank in 2012 (June)
2013: rank in 2012 (July)
2014: rank now
Code Name Population Act Dev Dev Act/Million Dev/Million 2009 2010 June 2011 June 2012 July 2013 July 2014
fi Finland 5259250 19 31 3,61 5,89 1 1 1 1 1 1
ie Ireland 4670976 13 17 2,78 3,64 13 9 6 2 2 2
nz New Zealand 4331600 11 15 2,54 3,46 4 3 5 7 7 3 *
mq Martinique 396404 1 1 2,52 2,52

3 4 4 4
se Sweden 9088728 22 37 2,42 4,07 3 6 7 5 5 5
ch Switzerland 7870134 19 29 2,41 3,68 2 2 2 3 3 6 *
no Norway 4973029 11 14 2,21 2,82 5 4 4 6 6 7 *
at Austria 8217280 18 29 2,19 3,53 6 8 10 10 10 8 *
de Germany 81471834 164 235 2,01 2,88 7 7 9 9 8 9 *
lu Luxemburg 503302 1 1 1,99 1,99 8 5 8 8 9 10 *
fr France 65350000 101 131 1,55 2 12 12 11 11 11 11
au Australia 22607571 32 60 1,42 2,65 9 10 12 12 12 12
be Belgium 11071483 14 17 1,26 1,54 10 11 13 13 13 13
uk United-Kingdom 62698362 77 118 1,23 1,88 14 14 14 14 14 14
nl Netherlands 16728091 18 40 1,08 2,39 11 13 15 15 15 15
ca Canada 33476688 34 63 1,02 1,88 15 15 17 16 16 16
dk Denmark 5529888 5 10 0,9 1,81 17 17 16 17 17 17
es Spain 46754784 34 56 0,73 1,2 16 16 19 18 18 18
it Italy 59464644 36 52 0,61 0,87 23 22 22 19 19 19
hu Hungary 10076062 6 12 0,6 1,19 18 25 26 20 24 20 *
cz Czech Rep 10190213 6 6 0,59 0,59 21 20 21 21 20 21 *
us USA 313232044 175 382 0,56 1,22 19 21 25 24 22 22
il Israel 7740900 4 6 0,52 0,78 24 24 24 25 23 23
hr Croatia 4290612 2 2 0,47 0,47 20 18 18 26 25 24 *
lv Latvia 2204708 1 1 0,45 0,45 26 26 27 27 26 25 *
bg Bulgaria 7364570 3 3 0,41 0,41 25 23 23 23 27 26 *
sg Singapore 5183700 2 2 0,39 0,39


33 33 27 *
uy Uruguay 3477778 1 2 0,29 0,58 22 27 28 28 28 28
pl Poland 38441588 11 15 0,29 0,39 29 29 30 30 30 29 *
jp Japan 127078679 36 52 0,28 0,41 30 28 29 29 29 30 *
lt Lithuania 3535547 1 1 0,28 0,28 28 19 20 22 21 31 *
gr Greece 10787690 3 4 0,28 0,37 33 38 34 35 35 32 *
cr Costa Rica 4301712 1 1 0,23 0,23 31 30 31 31 31 33 *
by Belarus 9577552 2 2 0,21 0,21 35 36 39 39 32 34 *
ar Argentina 40677348 8 10 0,2 0,25 34 33 35 32 37 35 *
pt Portugal 10561614 2 4 0,19 0,38 27 32 32 34 34 36 *
sk Slovakia 5477038 1 1 0,18 0,18 32 31 33 36 36 37 *
rs Serbia 7186862 1 1 0,14 0,14



38 38
tw Taiwan 23040040 3 3 0,13 0,13 37 34 37 37 39 39
br Brazil 192376496 18 21 0,09 0,11 36 35 38 38 40 40
cu Cuba 11241161 1 1 0,09 0,09
38 41 41 41 41
co Colombia 45566856 4 5 0,09 0,11 41 44 46 47 46 42 *
kr South Korea 48754657 4 6 0,08 0,12 39 39 42 42 42 43 *
gt Guatemala 13824463 1 1 0,07 0,07



43 44 *
ec Ecuador 15007343 1 1 0,07 0,07
40 43 43 45 45
cl Chile 16746491 1 2 0,06 0,12 42 41 44 44 47 46 *
za South Africa 50590000 3 10 0,06 0,2 38 48 48 48 48 47 *
ru Russia 143030106 8 9 0,06 0,06 43 42 47 45 49 48 *
mg Madagascar 21281844 1 1 0,05 0,05 44 37 40 40 50 49 *
ro Romania 21904551 1 2 0,05 0,09 45 43 45 46 51 50 *
ve Venezuela 28047938 1 1 0,04 0,04 40 45 50 49 44 51 *
my Malaysia 28250000 1 1 0,04 0,04

49 50 52 52
pe Peru 29907003 1 1 0,03 0,03 46 46 51 51 53 53
tr Turkey 74724269 2 2 0,03 0,03 47 47 52 52 54 54
ua Ukraine 45134707 1 1 0,02 0,02 48 53 58 59 55 55
th Thailand 66720153 1 2 0,01 0,03 50 50 54 54 56 56
eg Egypt 80081093 1 3 0,01 0,04 51 51 55 55 57 57
mx Mexico 112336538 1 1 0,01 0,01 49 49 53 53 58 58
cn China 1344413526 10 14 0,01 0,01 53 53 57 56 59 59
in India 1210193422 8 9 0,01 0,01 52 52 56 57 60 60
sv El Salvador 7066403 0 1 0 0,14

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Christian Perrier: [life] Running update July 26th 2014

Dog, long time since I blogged about my running activities. Apparently, I didn't since.....I posted a summary for 2013. So, well, that will be a long update as many things happened during the first half of 2014 when it comes at running, for me. January: I was recovering from a fatigue fracture injury inherited from last races in 2013. As a consequence, I resumed running only on Jan 7th. Therefore I cancelled my participation to the "Semi Raid 28", an night orienteering raid of about 50-60km in southern neighbourhood of Paris. Instead, I actually offerred my help to organizers in collecting orienteering signs after the race (the longest one : 120km). So, I ended up spending over 24 hours running in woods and hunting down hidden signs with the same information than runners. My only advantage was that I was able to use my car to go from one point to another. Still, I ended up running over 70km in many small parts, often alone in the dark woods with my headlamp, on very muddy areas...and collecting nearly 80 huge signs. February: Everything was going well and I for instance ran a great half-marathon in Bullion (south of Paris) in 1h3821" (great for a quite hilly race)....until I twisted my left ankle while running back from work. A quite severe twist, though no bone damage, thankfully. I had to stop running, again, for 3 years. Biking to/from work was the replacement activity.... March: I resumed running on March 10th, one week before a quite difficult trail race in my neighbourhood (30km "only" but up to 800 meters positive climb). That race was a preparation (and a test after the injury) for my 3rd participation to "Paris Ecotrail", a 80km trail race in woods of the South-West area of Paris, ending in the Eiffel Tower area. Indeed, both went very well, though I was very careful with my ankle. I finally broke my record at Ecotrail, finishing the race in 9h08 (to be compared to 9h36 last year and 11h15 the year before). April: Paris marathon was scheduled one week after Ecotrail. Everybody will tell you that running a marathon one week after a 80km race is kinda crazy.....which is why I made it..:-). That was my 3rd Paris marathon and my 12th marathon overall. However, this year, no record in sight. The challenge was running the marathon....dressed as SpongeBob (you know me, right?). I actually had great fun doing that and was happy to get zillions of cheering all over the race, from the crowd. I finally completed the race in 4h30, which is, after all, not that far from the time of my very first marathon (4h12). The only drawback was that the succession of quite very long distance runs made my left knee suffer as it never happened before. As a consequence, I (again) had to stop running for nearly one month before we found that I was quite sensitive to pronation, which the succession of long and slow races made worse. May: so finally afterthese (very) long weeks, I could gradually resume running, which finally culminated in mid-May with the 50km race "trail des Cerfs", in the Rambouillet Forest, closed to our place. This quite long but not too difficult trail race ("only" 800 meters positive climb overall) was completed in 5h16, which was completely unexpected, given the low training during the previous weeks. June: no race during that month. The entire month was focused on preparing the Montagn'hard race of July 5th: so several training sessions with a lot of climbing either by running or by fast walking (nordic style) as well as downhill run training (always important for moutain trail). July: the second "big peak" of my 2014 season was scheduled for July 5th: "La Montagn'hard", a moutain trail race close to Les Contamines in the neighbourhood of Chamonix, the french moutaineering Mekkah. "Only" 60 kilometers....but close to 5000 meters positive climb. Montagn'hard is among the thoughest moutain trail races in France and therefore a "must do" for trail runners. This race week-end includes also a 105km ultra-race, which is often said to be as hard, even maybe harder, than the very famous "Ultra Trail du Mont-Blanc" trail in Chamonix. Still, for my second only season in moutain trail running, I decided to be "wise" and stick with the "medium" version (after all, my experience, as of now with moutain trails were only two quite "short" ones). Needless to say, it has indeed been a GREAT race. The environment is wonderful ("Miage" side of the Mont-Blanc range), the race goes through great place (Col de Tricot, noticeably) and I made a great result by finishing80th out of 325+ runners, in 12h18, while my target time was around 13 hours. This is where I am now. Nearly one month after Montagn'hard, I'm deeply training for my next Big Goal: The "Sur la Trace des Ducs de Savoie" or "TDS", one of the 4 races of the Ultra Trail du Mont-Blanc week, in end August (during DebConf): 120km, nearly 7500m positive climp, between Courmayeur and Chamonix, through several passes, up to 2600m height. Yet another challenge: my first "over 24h" race, with a full night out in the moutains. You'll certainly hear again from me about that...:-)

27 July 2014

Christian Perrier: [life] Running update July 26th 2014

Dog, long time since I blogged about my running activities. Apparently, I didn't since...... So, well, that will be a long update as many things happened during the first half of 2014 when it comes at running, for me. January: I was recovering from a fatigue fracture injury inherited from last races in 2013. As a consequence, I resumed running only on Jan 7th. Therefore I cancelled my participation to the "Semi Raid 28", an night orienteering raid of about 50-60km in southern neighbourhood of Paris. Instead, I actually offerred my help to organizers in collecting orienteering signs after the race (the longest one : 120km). So, I ended up spending over 24 hours running in woods and hunting down hidden signs with the same information than runners. My only advantage was that I was able to use my car to go from one point to another. Still, I ended up running over 70km in many small parts, often alone in the dark woods with my headlamp, on very muddy areas...and collecting nearly 80 huge signs. February: Everything was going well and I for instance ran a great half-marathon in Bullion (south of Paris) in 1h3821" (great for a quite hilly race)....until I twisted my left ankle while running back from work. A quite severe twist, though no bone damage, thankfully. I had to stop running, again, for 3 years. Biking to/from work was the replacement activity.... March: I resumed running on March 10th, one week before a quite difficult trail race in my neighbourhood (30km "only" but up to 800 meters positive climb). That race was a preparation (and a test after the injury) for my 3rd participation to "Paris Ecotrail", a 80km trail race in woods of the South-West area of Paris, ending in the Eiffel Tower area. Indeed, both went very well, though I was very careful with my ankle. I finally broke my record at Ecotrail, finishing the race in 9h08 (to be compared to 9h36 last year and 11h15 the year before). April: Paris marathon was scheduled one week after Ecotrail. Everybody will tell you that running a marathon one week after a 80km race is kinda crazy.....which is why I made it..:-). That was my 3rd Paris marathon and my 12th marathon overall. However, this year, no record in sight. The challenge was running the marathon....dressed as SpongeBob (you know me, right?). I actually had great fun doing that and was happy to get zillions of cheering all over the race, from the crowd. I finally completed the race in 4h30, which is, after all, not that far from the time of my very first marathon (4h12). The only drawback was that the succession of quite very long distance runs made my left knee suffer as it never happened before. As a consequence, I (again) had to stop running for nearly one month before we found that I was quite sensitive to pronation, which the succession of long and slow races made worse. May: so finally afterthese (very) long weeks, I could gradually resume running, which finally culminated in mid-May with the 50km race "trail des Cerfs", in the Rambouillet Forest, closed to our place. This quite long but not too difficult trail race ("only" 800 meters positive climb overall) was completed in 5h16, which was completely unexpected, given the low training during the previous weeks. June: no race during that month. The entire month was focused on preparing the Montagn'hard race of July 5th: so several training sessions with a lot of climbing either by running or by fast walking (nordic style) as well as downhill run training (always important for moutain trail). July: the second "big peak" of my 2014 season was scheduled for July 5th: "La Montagn'hard", a moutain trail race close to Les Contamines in the neighbourhood of Chamonix, the french moutaineering Mekkah. "Only" 60 kilometers....but close to 5000 meters positive climb. Montagn'hard is among the thoughest moutain trail races in France and therefore a "must do" for trail runners. This race week-end includes also a 105km ultra-race, which is often said to be as hard, even maybe harder, than the very famous "Ultra Trail du Mont-Blanc" trail in Chamonix. Still, for my second only season in moutain trail running, I decided to be "wise" and stick with the "medium" version (after all, my experience, as of now with moutain trails were only two quite "short" ones). Needless to say, it has indeed been a GREAT race. The environment is wonderful ("Miage" side of the Mont-Blanc range), the race goes through great place (Col de Tricot, noticeably) and I made a great result by finishing80th out of 3250+ runners, in 12h18, while my target time was around 13 hours. This is where I am now. Nearly one month after Montagn'hard, I'm deeply training for my next Big Goal: The "Sur la Trace des Ducs de Savoie" or "TDS", one of the 4 races of the Ultra Trail du Mont-Blanc week, in end August (during DebConf): 120km, nearly 7500m positive climp, between Courmayeur and Chamonix, through several passes, up to 2600m height. Yet another challenge: my first "over 24h" race, with a full night out in the moutains. You'll certainly hear again from me about that...:-)

Christian Perrier: Developers per country (July 2014)

This is time again for my annual report about the number of developers per country. This is now the sixth edition of this report. Former editions: So, here we are with the July 2014 version, sorted by the ratio of *active* developers per million population for each country.
Act: number of active developers
Dev: total number of developers
A/M: number of active devels per million pop.
D/M: number of devels per million pop.
2009: rank in 2009
2010: rank in 2010
2011: rank in 2011 (June)
2012: rank in 2012 (June)
2013: rank in 2012 (July)
2014: rank now
Code Name Population Act Dev Dev Act/Million Dev/Million 2009 2010 June 2011 June 2012 July 2013 July 2014
fi Finland 5259250 19 31 3,61 5,89 1 1 1 1 1 1
ie Ireland 4670976 13 17 2,78 3,64 13 9 6 2 2 2
nz New Zealand 4331600 11 15 2,54 3,46 4 3 5 7 7 3 *
mq Martinique 396404 1 1 2,52 2,52

3 4 4 4
se Sweden 9088728 22 37 2,42 4,07 3 6 7 5 5 5
ch Switzerland 7870134 19 29 2,41 3,68 2 2 2 3 3 6 *
no Norway 4973029 11 14 2,21 2,82 5 4 4 6 6 7 *
at Austria 8217280 18 29 2,19 3,53 6 8 10 10 10 8 *
de Germany 81471834 164 235 2,01 2,88 7 7 9 9 8 9 *
lu Luxemburg 503302 1 1 1,99 1,99 8 5 8 8 9 10 *
fr France 65350000 101 131 1,55 2 12 12 11 11 11 11
au Australia 22607571 32 60 1,42 2,65 9 10 12 12 12 12
be Belgium 11071483 14 17 1,26 1,54 10 11 13 13 13 13
uk United-Kingdom 62698362 77 118 1,23 1,88 14 14 14 14 14 14
nl Netherlands 16728091 18 40 1,08 2,39 11 13 15 15 15 15
ca Canada 33476688 34 63 1,02 1,88 15 15 17 16 16 16
dk Denmark 5529888 5 10 0,9 1,81 17 17 16 17 17 17
es Spain 46754784 34 56 0,73 1,2 16 16 19 18 18 18
it Italy 59464644 36 52 0,61 0,87 23 22 22 19 19 19
hu Hungary 10076062 6 12 0,6 1,19 18 25 26 20 24 20 *
cz Czech Rep 10190213 6 6 0,59 0,59 21 20 21 21 20 21 *
us USA 313232044 175 382 0,56 1,22 19 21 25 24 22 22
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33 33 27 *
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38 38
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38 41 41 41 41
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40 43 43 45 45
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17 July 2014

Christian Perrier: OpenAmbit now in Debian (for owners of Suunto Ambit sport watches)

I recently bought a Suunto Ambit 2 sport watch for my running activities, replacing my good old Garmin ForeRunner 405 whose battery life wasn't longer in sync with the length of some of my runs... Ambit 2 watches have up to 50 hours autonomy, which is great for long races, as well as a barometric altitude recording, which is way more precise that GPS-based altitude recording. Both these are keys for mountain running, indeed... Sadly, Suunto only provides software for Windows and the software is mandatory to use in order to sync the watch logs and settings with Movescount.com, the Suunto web site. Even more: any change to the watch settings has to be done through Movescount, which means that without software, you can't really use the watch....:-( Thankfully, a few people have worked on an "OpenAmbit" project (www.openambit.org) that's aimed at dealing with this and provide Linux users with a way to sync their watches without requiring a Windows computer. And, as you may imagine, I wanted to package it for Debian. Indeed, some packaging work had already been done for Ubuntu, in a PPA, by Dominik Stadler at https://launchpad.net/~dominik-stadler/+archive/dsta-trusty-ppa. Still, I wanted this to go the preferred way of the official archive for the software to get more visibility. Finally, after a few failures (doh, how picky are our FTPmasters about licenses.....which is a Good Thing!), OpenAmbit landed in unstable one week ago. This is as of now the 0.2 version, that doesn't work with the most recent versions of Suunto firmwares. However, a 0.2+20140606 version is on its way and....it works with my watch..:-) So, Yet Another Success for the pkg-running-devel packaging team in Debian, once again proving that Debian developers are also deeply interested in physical activities..:-) And, also, this is a proof that I'm not yet only running and no longer working for Debian....

25 February 2014

Christian Perrier: Bug #740000

Miguel Landaeta reported Debian bug #740000 on Monday February 24th, against the checkstyle package. Bug #730000 was reported as of November 20th: 3 months and 4 days for 10,000 bugs. Nearly exactly same bug reporting rate than 720000-730000. And, of course, we're still on our way to bug #800000 and bug #1000000.

1 January 2014

Christian Perrier: [life] [running] 2013 summary

Yet another yearly summary of my running activities. As I already explained, now running took precedence over free software activities as you'll notice below... So, what happened on that front in 2013 for running bubulle? I finally managed to run 4603 km during the year, which is 1700km more than 2012. Definitively an explosion as I actually ran over 12.5km every day. I added to this 206km with my moutain bike, all of them achieved during December while I was (and still am) suffering from an injury (fatigue fracture). These 4603km were covered in 458 hours, so a bit over 19 days running and very very slightly over 10km/h. It seems that my favourite race type choice is obvious, here: I'm, by very far, privileging, trail races, either in the country or forests in my neighbourhood....or in moutains. As a result, also, the combined positive climb is faily high, too. Though harder to estimate than distance and time, I end up with about 72,900 meters positive climb (to be compared to last year's 33,000 meters...:-)). Clearly, my summer in moutains made the difference, here.... The longest time period without running, this year, has been 3 days. That's really insane...:-). Particularly when one notices that I happened to run *every day* during 40 consecutive days at one moment, between August and September. Who says that running is indeed a full part of my life? To be honest, I actually didn't run since December 11th (while writing this on January 1st) because of my tibia injury...but I did bike, so that's still some kind of sports, right? Indeed, there have been 282 days in this year where I ran (or biked) at least once. Last year was 205 so....drug addiction is still increasing. Most active month: November with 471km. Less active month: February with 334km (which is indeed more than 2012 most active month..:-)) This year was also a year of records: I ran 14 official races during the year : How about next^W this year? Well, my season's peaks are currently being secured: No marathon as of now...:-). Or, indeed one (Paris in April), but more for fun : I hope to complete it in....less than 5 hours...but still in Spongebob Squarepants suit. You may want to watch TV on April 6th..:-) As I wrote last year : all this of course is assuming that no injury comes up. I currently need to recover from the current one, though it doesn't seem as bad as it seemed a few weeks ago. We'll see on January 1st 2015...:-)

30 December 2013

Christian Perrier: [running] New about my injury

Latest news about my recent injury after last race: the fatigue fracture was really a small one and is not visible on radiography, even after 3 weeks. I'm waiting for the sports doctor advice next week before resuming running...or still wait for a few weeks and still stick to mountain biking. I can tell that not running for more than a few days is really frustrating, particularly when visiting my relatives in St-Etienne, where there are moutains and great trails.

21 December 2013

Christian Perrier: [life] Running update December 21st 2013

Last time I blogged about my running activities was after DebConf 13 in Switzerland, back in August. At that time, I just completed two great moutain races in one month (Mont-Blanc Marathon, then EDF Cenis Tour, one being 42km and 2500m positive climb and the other one being 50km and 2700m). EDF Cenis Tour was my best result overall in a trail race, being ranked 40th out of more than 300 runners and 3rd in my age category (men 50-59). So, in late August, I was preparing for my "autumn challenge", a succession of 3 long distance races in a row: Quite a challenge, indeed, to run 3 long distance events in a row, with only 3 weeks between them. Preparation for all this was mostly piling up kilometers over kilometers. First in road and flat training, when the goal was the marathon. So, after piking to 471 kilometers in August (more than 15km/day), I ran 452 in September and again 420 in October. During that preparation, I also broke my personal best in half-marathon, down to 1h34. I therefore was perfectly fit for the Toulouse Marathon and, indeed, unsurprisingly, I achieved my first goal by breaking my personal best down to.....3h25' and a few seconds. Really a great achievement and something that gives me a little hope of being able to qualify for Boston Marathon (though chances are a bit low again: I can apply because I'm below 3h30 but the chances that I get a seat are not very big). Recovery from the marathon was easy, thanks to the big preparation and then the second race came very quickly: Le Puy-Firminy. My third participation to this night race, organised by a cousin of mine. I completed the first one in 9h15....then, last year, the second one in 8h25. And, this year, well......7h15 and 26th out of over 200 runners. Huge, great and stunning performance for me, really. Everything went so well that I can't remember any moment where I had any doubt. And I will indeed remember the last kilometer ran along with my sister (who is also a runner) and where she.....couldn't follow me while I was sprinting at about 14km/h after 68 kilometers. Definitely my best race this year. And then came the last challenge: Saint lyon. If you never saw it, you have no idea. While Le Puy-Firminy features 200 runners and 150 walkers over 68 kilometers, this one features 6000 runners for 75 kilometers. Six THOUSAND. The vision of a light snake, kilometers long, over the hills in St-Etienne neighbourhood, was stunning. Moreover, we ran that one, with snow, ice and cold (down to -10 C at the highest point of the race). So, here, the goal was running with my friend and share the joy of the race with her, all along...and eventually beat her personal best on this race (11h15 last year, while the race was 5km shorter). We made it really well, despite the crowd and the fact that it doesn't allow running one's real speed. Despite the ice and snow that makes downhills really.....interesting. Despite dolors I had in my legs at the end of the race. We completed the race in 10h38, quite away from our secret goal (9h30) but that one was really ambitious...:-). And we crossed the finish line together, hand in hand, for the third time of our running life. And we shared tears at the end of the race. And we shared many great moments over that week-end. Moments that let one remember what the definition of "friendship" is. I found my "running sister" in Sabine and this is something we really appreciate and is hard to explain. All this would make a great conclusion if.....I hadn't injured my leg with this accumulation. Indeed, as one might expect after such a hard challenge, I discovered during the days that followed the last race, that I have a fatigue fracture on my left tibia. As a consequence, I need to stop running for about 6 weeks....which you can understand is kinda hard for me. But, guess what? I'm allowed to bike...:-). So, well, I repaired my old moutain bike and now, I'm biking instead of running...:-) Finally, 2013 has been my greatest running year, again. 4700 kilometers ran over the year, nearly 13km/day in average. 14 races (3 road races and 11 trail races). 463 hours spent running and 72,000meters climbed (about 8 Sagarmatha, aka Everest, climbed). 2 Personal Best performances. 2 long distance races which I ran in more than 1 hour less then last year. 2 new moutain races. And first running injury...:-) 2014 will be different. I will run again some races I alreay ran such as Paris 80km Ecotrail or Le Puy Firminy (4th time in a row). But I also hope to be able to run one of the Ultra Tour du Mont-Blanc races in late August in Chamonix (need to be picked up at the bib lottery for this to happen). And probably some other interesting challenges such as running the Paris Marathon dressed as SpongeBob....one week after running the 80km Ecotrail....:-) But you'll see that in my next running update, of course. Merry New Year and Happy Christmas!

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