Andrew Cater: Point release weekend for Debian: two releases this weekend: 202311071653
Over in Cambridge with RattusRattus, Sledge, egw and Isy. Andy is very kindly putting us up.
We're almost all of the way through testing 12.2 and some of the way through testing 11.8.
It's a LONG day - heads down into laptops and relatively quiet - I think we're all tired and we've a way to go yet.
We're almost all of the way through testing 12.2 and some of the way through testing 11.8.
It's a LONG day - heads down into laptops and relatively quiet - I think we're all tired and we've a way to go yet.
I m trying to replace my old OpenPGP key with a new one. The old key wasn t compromised or lost or anything
bad. Is still valid, but I plan to get rid of it soon. It was created in 2013.
The new key id fingerprint is: 
The first 
Nearly 40 participants from 14 different free software project had very busy
days sharing knowledge, building understanding, and producing actual patches.
Anyone interested in cross project discussions should join the 
Infrastructure
Several discussions at the meeting helped refine a shared understanding of what
kind of information should be recorded on a build, and how they could be used.
Daniel Kahn Gillmor sent a 
DebConf being in New York City this year, clearly the right way to get
there was to bike, together with 
We then had some problems with Molly's brakes, and it took a long time
to navigate out of the city, but eventually we found ourself on the
"Washington Secondary Trail" a wonderful bike path along an old
rail line. Every couple miles there'd be an old covered rail bridge over
the river, and it was a well-paved straight shot for about ten miles,
with no cars and no need to navigate.
Just as we were getting into things after the bike trail ended,
something completely unexpected happened.
This is Daf's derailleur after it sheared off in the middle as we
attempted to start after a red light outside Tractor Supply Co.
Luckily, John and his son Chris lent us a hand and hauled Daf and his
bike to the nearest bicycle shop in the back of their pickup truck.
They'd just come from there, where John had bought Chris a new helmet.
The second day included less bike trouble, but was no less eventful, and
we were tired from the previous day's riding. The highlights included
taking a tiny sidewalk path that I'm baffled how Google knows about up
onto a sidewalk alongside the I-95 bridge across the Thames to New
London, Connecticut.
The 13:00 ferry from New London to Orient Point, New York, where we got
some remarkably good veggie burgers (whole edamame visible!) for lunch.
And a vineyard on the north fork of Long Island, where we stopped for a
quick tasting and ended up picking up a bottle of
It turns out there are only two trains a day on the Long Island rail,
and we just barely caught the 18:52 return from Riverhead. We had mere
seconds in the station and ended up without enough cash to pay for
tickets onboard, but the conductor just took what we had and gave us
tickets to Penn Station anyway.
Outside Penn, a girl with a mohawk and a messenger bag overheard us
talking about biking up Broadway and told us to bike up 8th Avenue
instead. "Always bike up 8th and down Broadway because they have bike
lanes in those directions." Thus, we didn't die dodging taxis in the
dark.
So basically, due to various people being extremely nice to us for no
good reason, we made it to Columbia University around 22:30, on the
correct day. Warm fuzzies for humanity all around. 
