Intrepid Ibex – on it’s way indeed

So I know now that keeping a blog is a tiring bit of work really. If I finish something cool I want to get right on with the next cool thing, or it’s about time for me to head for the sack and I don’t want to chance a typo ridden post. But I must say I do enjoy this Community I’ve got myself strapped on to a

What an awesome month, even though I did almost miss a Hugday by mistake. I did learn something, I am indeed doing something useful it seems. With no announcement e-mail being sent out, there was Zero activity for the Hugday two weeks ago. With the e-mail being sent out the day of the Hugday, there was quite a considerable amount of contribution from names I’ve never seen before. Maybe the HugDay announcement should in-fact be sent out at the start of hugday rather than as a warning to it’s start? Something to chew on indeed.

In other news, today I ran update-manager -d on my main machine. Well it could have gone better, and I can probably fix the problems for myself, but I want to make sure reports are filed and all the needed info is submitted. Not too sure how to go about this task but I already filed a good dozen reports today it seems. Gnome exploded, Empathy is quirky, nv drivers are MIA, virtual consoles are virtually gone, and thank goodness for xfce being installed. I see we have some work over the next two months.

I hope I can get some more patchin’ in after classes start along with my new part time job, Linux Server Monkey at LSSU where I go to school.

Progress

It turns out to be a difficult thing to keep up a blog. I haven’t posted in a while but I sure have done some cool stuff!

First, I got three patches accepted for apt in intrepid ibex. APT! The core, heart, soul of Ubuntu and Debian! My patches! ^_^ to be fair, they where simple patches but here is the changelog entry.

apt (0.7.14ubuntu4) intrepid; urgency=low

  [ Michael Vogt ]
  * apt-pkg/deb/dpkgpm.cc:
    - fix uninitialized variable that caused no apport reports
      to be written sometimes (thanks to Matt Zimmerman)
  * merge patch that enforces stricter https server certificate
    checking (thanks to Arnaud Ebalard, closes: #485960)
  * allow per-mirror specific https settings
    (thanks to Arnaud Ebalard, closes: #485965)
  * add doc/examples/apt-https-method-example.cof
    (thanks to Arnaud Ebalard, closes: #485964)
  * add DPkg::NoTriggers option so that applications that call
    apt/aptitude (like the installer) defer trigger processing
    (thanks to Joey Hess)
  * document --install-recommends and --no-install-recommends
    (thanks to Dereck Wonnacott, LP: #126180)

 [ Dereck Wonnacott ]
  * apt-ftparchive might write corrupt Release files (LP: #46439)
  * Apply --important option to apt-cache depends (LP: #16947)

Two other patches were denied for good reasons. Yet two more await review before they will go anywhere. It’s a really good feeling to submit that debdiff and even better to get a response to it.

I have been recruiting for the Global Bug Jam as well and have a number of people in ##club-Ubuntu that have stepped up to contribute. About 12 or more people at the time seem interested, and that rocks! I hope they use the GBJ to jump start their way to full Ubuntu Members! I have given them the task of assigning packages to bugs, a fairly simple task with little commitment, and to help them I have redone almost all of the BugSquad wiki pages to make sure the documentation is clear. I know I had to struggle to figure out how to get rolling, I hope this lowers the barrier for entry. I even made a screen cast on just what to do and that was fun!

Even though I have been busy on Thursdays and haven’t made a strong appearance for HugDays, I have been silently running them in the background. I hope tomorrow I’ll be around enough to hug a bug or 5.   Although I started all those patches for Apt because I wanted to make up for missing the HugDay.

Back to work I go!