Perhaps it's time I make another diary entry ;) considering how much stuff happened since the last time I wrote a diary entry here.

I became a more active member of the Debian web staff. I've been doing some bits of Perl to fix up our scripts for handling translations on the web pages, done some nice Makefile hackery to enhance the web pages build system, along with the usual updates to the web pages, in English and Croatian. I also helped the web lists archives get back on its feet, but in with a new internal setup, which enables several people to work on it. On related note, va.d.o, the host previously serving as www.debian.org and cvs.debian.org, died, so we had to move those services around. Hopefully it comes back soon, with a shiny new hardware and a better name - espy.debian.org I hope.

Although, since my upstream ISP got its bandwidth to most of Europe and USA fixed, moving to slower hosts didn't make much difference. I even uploaded some packages to samosa.d.o upload queue at >3kbps! :)

I also fixed a few small bugs in the BTS and went over its bug report list at bugs.debian.org/bugs.debian.org (heh) to close the already fixed items -- it turns out there were quite a few of them, and also several duplicates. I also snatched the honour of closing some very old reports, even dating back to 1997. Unfortunately, we have had some a brand new fsckups in the BTS, some of which are still not fixed... :(

Thanks to a glorious effort by m2 (Marcelo Magallon, can't find his account on advogato) we also moved the WNPP to the BTS wnpp pseudo-package entry, which makes it more dynamic and we hope more up-to-date. m2 also made scripts for some pretty looking indices, discussed a set of rules for filing wnpp bugs, and announced it all on -devel-announce. See the new WNPP web pages for more information.

Debian got praise from LWN about its organizational structure and the democratic system of making decisions. It turns out our `benevolent dictatorship' (according to joeyh, IIRC) isn't so bad after all :o) Sometimes it's annoying to make sure each and every little procedure is followed, but I guess that's the price you have to pay.

BTW it seems my patches for dselect help screen may get in sooner than I expected. All hail wiggy! :)

Oh yeah, in case you wondered how to reach me -- e-mail is joy (at) debian.org (address mangled to avoid spam, i get enough of it already on other addresses), you can see lots of my posts (in Croatian, though) in hr.comp.linux, and often find me logged into Openprojects IRC network as Joy.

BTW Netscape is really slow on this machine. Sucks. Whereas links, for instance, rules. Oh well. Enough ranting. :)