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!
