Advogato blog for asmodai

5 Feb 2003

Wed, 5 Feb 2003 05:54:13 GMT

Ping.

7 Nov 2002

Thu, 7 Nov 2002 07:34:19 GMT

And we are still alive.

For those who missed it, I had quit the FreeBSD Project for the second time, hence my status as Helper on it nowadays. (As if that is important enough to notice.)

11 Apr 2000

Tue, 11 Apr 2000 19:06:26 GMT

Funky.

According to pvg I am one of the most connected and most certifying people on advogato.

Whilst this isn't important I can explain why I am high up in those numbers. For the entry in the top 10 certers I can simply say I know a lot of people or take the time to find a bit out about them, so I most of the time (think) I know where they are in this whole web of OSS. Which is all relative of course, since most people in the FreeBSD probably think I am Journeyer level, definately not higher(!), but most `outsiders' and mayhaps the majority of long standing commiters even think I am Apprentice. Well, I can understand both and it all depends on the initial viewpoint.

The most connected is also easily explainable, since most of the people I certed, certified me back since they know me due some form of communication we have/had.

imp's diary entry scared me a bit. LIT UP two? OMG.

8 Apr 2000

Sat, 8 Apr 2000 19:52:52 GMT

A note to Kalana:

Mayhaps you like what Nik Clayton wrote at FreeBSD DocProj Primer more.

Anyways, started to hack up on several source code documentation generators along with nbm in order to document FreeBSD's source tree. This will be fun to observe.

4 Apr 2000

Tue, 4 Apr 2000 19:49:50 GMT

Djeez, what a day...

Well, work wants some other guys to keep themselves busy with the Ticket System, so I'll be shoving that up the backburner.

Instead I am going to be spending more and more time on FreeBSD, load balancing stuff and such. Yay!

Anyways, working on the FreeBSD tasklist again (finally). And I hope to get much of it done tonight. This will make things more interesting. At least in the aspect of getting non-committers more actively involved in the project and the sub-projects the committers start, but don't have the time to work out across the total system.

Finally a story a little aside from code hacking (see phk's post of Romeo and Juliette) and instantly he is rated dimwit. I kind of find his posting interesting as it details yet a side of the OSS which hasn't actually been discussed much. And I find it very reassuring to know that people still can manage to put principles aside over their believes of something more worthwhile than just a concept such as OSS is.

1 Apr 2000

Sat, 1 Apr 2000 12:52:40 GMT

Gah, lame nightrest...

Anyways...

Time to get back to MySQL (I prefer PostgreSQL), Perl and PHP hacking for the ticket system.

The thrill. =)

Just read the whole SQA thread. Interesting. The FreeBSD Project now has since 4.0-RELEASE a devoted QA mailinglist to stamp out the bugs during the month code/feature freeze prior to release.

Also whilst reading the replies I came across kelly's diary entry about a conversation with Miguel de Icaza. Frankly I was a little shocked about Miguel's answer. I know of a lot of FreeBSD committers who are actually spending that 5 hour maintenance time to fix those obscure bugs. Or even devote entire weeks rewriting low-level stuff so that all bug dependencies are taken care off. For someone whom seems so tied in with the Gnome Project to ensure its placement on the desktop of many users I find this lack of persistance of fixing bugs sadly lacking.

I know I go the additional mile to fix those last obscure bugs or annoyances how long it might take me. It will get me less mail about something being broken plus it will give me the feeling that I did my utmost best to make sure it is fixed for (almost) everyone.

31 Mar 2000

Fri, 31 Mar 2000 14:58:17 GMT

Working on a ticket system, which will become Open Source in due time.

Pffft, what a lame day.

Trust me, when Cisco says `hot-swappable' they mean reload the router.