Author: fmneto
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DebConf 20
This is “Achievement Unlocked” for me. I’ve been using Debian for more than 20 years. During that time, I used it more or less, but ever since first coming into contact with it, all the Free Software universe has always captivated me. Probably Surely this has to do with the importance that that time (early…
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Bugs beware! Return of the Debian Tracker
A little more than a year ago, I published a series of posts talking about Debian’s release cycle, which was followed by an exercise in how a small python script could be used to track the number of bugs related to it. That exercise had multiple objectives, but its main purpose was teaching myself about…
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A perspective going “back to action”
Well, here we are again, almost a year after last post. It’s about time we talk about perspective again. At this point, it’s almost a personal tradition to occasionally abandon this blog and come back after a long time, with a post that usually begins with me complaining about how I spent way too long…
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Buster Release: the Plan
Merely two hours after my last post, Niels Thykier sent an email to debian-devel-announce informing us that Buster’s Release is planned for July 6th (less than a month from now). Personally that makes me happy; I didn’t want to wait until October (as per my former estimate). And I want to think that my post…
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Buster Release: the Forecast
In my last post about Buster I explained how I devised a little Python script that tracks the number of RC Bugs in Debian’s current Testing distribution as a rudimentary way of tracking the progress of the Freeze process. I also mentioned that I’ve been running it (for a couple of months at the time…
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The end of The Big Bang Theory
After twelve years, The Big Bang Theory has come to an end. It has been a journey, like any other, full of highs and lows. The series had its bad moments, but they were vastly outnumbered by the good moments. As always, there are those who didn’t like the ending. And, more significatively, there are…
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Tracking the Debian Release cycle
In my last post I went over how Debian’s release cycle works. In fact, all we can hope for is a planned release date, but even that depends on how things progress during the final stages of the Freeze, and even then a planned release day is only settled on very late in the process.…