What is the best bleeding edge

At the moment If you want to run a bleeding edge version of Thunderbird, you need to choose between running 3.2x and 3.1x builds. In fact, it appears that most people willing to run bleeding edge are now running 3.2x builds.

Whilst our most dedicated testers are running 3.2x builds, the engineering team is working on bringing features and bug fixes to the 3.1x branch. There's a discrepancy here. This means that the issues that might exist in 3.1x have a greater chance to be discovered after releases rather than before. It's easy to fix that, instead of running 3.2x builds, we would like our bleeding edge user to use the 3.1x builds (you can find them at http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/latest-comm-1.9.2/). By doing this simple switch you'll help to make the 3.1 series a great series.

Syndicated 2010-02-09 08:01:38 (Updated 2010-02-09 09:12:44) from Ludovic's weblog

Thunderbird Quality Weekly Event

The people in charge of the quality of Thunderbird , are organizing on a weekly basis a quality team event. These event cover most of the area where quality is involved. This means testing new feature, testing pre-release version of the software, and maintaining the known bug database. If you come to think about it, none of these activities require to be done on a given date, so why bother with an "event" ?

First of All the event is virtual, it happens online - this is for practical reasons, it would be very difficult to have people living in Singapore, the US east coast or The Netherlands to meet and work in the same physical place. We do bother to have an event because sometimes when looking at a problem or at something new being able to ask other if they see the same thing is valuable, because they might know something you don't or might have encountered the same issue earlier etc ... The value of the event is communicating with other people doing the same thing as you do, but with a different perspective. This is specially true for people who want to join. Asking the people that have been doing quality for quite some time will be available to help new comers.

We are using a distributed chat system called IRC, which is available with dedicated clients or through a web interface. As all the people available for a chat are not always in front of the chat window, you might not get an immediate answer. Typing a name a person being in the chat room will help you get noticed and get a faster answer. And don't be afraid to ask or participate , it's not that difficult.

Now that you know how those events take place, you might be interested in figuring out the subject that is going to be going on during the event. We publish a wiki page for each event that take place, and we have an other page referencing all past and future events (well most of the future events are being announced on a weekly basis). This week for example will be focused on duplicate events. I'm also announcing the events on Thunderbird dev mailing list.

Syndicated 2010-01-20 08:11:09 (Updated 2010-01-20 09:00:57) from Ludovic's weblog

Open Source days in CPH

I'm wondering if going to Opensource day is worth it. They are having they Call for papers right now. Anybody willing to share how it was the previous years ?

Syndicated 2010-01-08 16:45:55 (Updated 2010-01-08 16:49:16) from Ludovic's weblog

Beefing up my OpenPGP configuration

After reading this interesting article, I decided to figure out If I needed a new key and if it was worth the trouble to start a new stronger key.
My needs are much simpler than the debian project's. I don't sign software and I don't encrypt email much. Over the last 5 years I might have sent and received maybe 4 encrypted emails. I'm not a big fan of encryption per se. I am however convinced that signing emails is a good way to fight impersonation. Something that spammer tend to over use these days. So my primary need is to sign emails. For that I don't really need a stronger key - I just need to make GnuPG's default a bit stronger.

I've edited my my gpg.conf file and added the following to it :

enable-dsa2
personal-digest-preferences SHA256 RIPEMD160 SHA1


This ensure that the signing algorithm is stronger - without going through the hassle of creating a new key.

Syndicated 2009-12-03 07:35:44 (Updated 2009-12-03 07:48:10) from Ludovic's weblog

Looking for a nice Mac keyboard

Dear lazy web,

I'm looking for a keyboard with the following :

• Bluetooth
  
• Mac Keys layout
  
• trackpad - as I hate moving my hand to get the mouse
  

If I can choose a french layout that would be a +. Google isn't really helping there.

Syndicated 2009-11-27 06:48:33 (Updated 2009-11-26 19:52:39) from Ludovic's weblog