Wow, what a tiring routine... This ammount of responsibilities and lack of time is driving me crazy! At least I'm now being able to work on free software projects more than I used to and achieve my goals.

The first of my great victories these days was to get my parents authorization to go to DebConf4 and stay for the whole conference. At first, I wouldn't be allowed to go. After some work of brain-washing and persuasion, I was allowed to leave São Paulo on Friday night, after my classes at school and stay until Sunday night at Porto Alegre. Now, with some help from Michelle, my parents contacted the school's headmaster and I'm going to stay at DebConf from May 26th to June 2nd! =)

The second thing that's getting me quite happy is my first contribution with software to the community. Since August 2002, when I got to know Debian and started working with it, I had only packaged software and contributed with translations for Debian and GNOME. Now I'm getting to finish my first piece of code, that's becoming really nice, actually. It's a graphical (GTK+) frontend to /usr/bin/passwd, based on the GKSu idea. It was going to be called GPasswd, but I'll have to reconsider it since there is already a little program called gpasswd for group administration or something like this. The GUI and almost the whole backend are ready. The only thing missing is the most important one: the part who really changes the password, that does the magic.

I am also preparing new releases of my packages (prozilla, eggdrop and xmms-skins), so that they can all be shiny and as-close-to-perfection-as-possible for sarge (no matter how long it takes to be released). Fortunately, I have been having time to help people do that to their packages too, reporting bugs, especially related to pt_BR translation and sending patches.

However, due to these things (the above-mentioned ones) and a lot of other not computer-related responsibilities, I haven't had time to write the FHS compliance patch for CGI:IRC -http://cgiirc.sourceforge.net- that has been ITPd by me for almost one year now (help welcome) nor to deal with the freecraft maintainer and Stratagus packaging. Let's see if I can work on that during the weekend.

Now it's time to go to school and study (although it's never been a habit for me, I don't like it and consider it absolutely unnecessary) otherwise I'll have my DebConf authorization revoked, hehe =)