Older blog entries for sits (starting at number 1)

Hmm. I am still a bit confused as to what I should have put on my page to make other people's lives easier and certify me:

• Do I certify myself to give people a better idea of how what level I am at?
• Do I certify other people who are already certified in order get their attention and certify me?

I have read the through the Adavogato trust metric page and I do not understand why people repeatedly certify Alan as a Master. Don't misunderstand me - I know that Alan does great work and should be at the Master level, but he is one of the seed accounts so my rating him as a Master is not going to make any difference right?

I have been reading Telsa's diary and she seems to suggest that you should display links to all the projects you have worked on. Are there any newbie guides to Advogato? I did a quick google search but I didn't turn up anything.

I've just realised I can help people quantify how much work I did on mozilla. If you do a Bugzilla search for Sitsofe Wheeler then you will have a better idea. Please note: that link shows the number of bugs I added a comment to - not the number that I reported, or were duplicates etc.

Well, this is my first diary entry. I have contributed a small amount the free software (if you use Mandrake then you may notice my name in the RPM changelogs of two packages, if you look hard enough) and I was also a Mozilla tester a while back. Anyhow let's see how this goes and whether any one will certify me...

While I'm here, I guess I should mention that I'm the current president of SUCS - The Swansea University Computer Society. Just for the record, no I don't know anything about Linux's TCP/IP stack. That was all done by Alan. Sorry.