Category: Debian
-
Moving on with the Debian RC Tracker Bot
The Debian RC Tracker, my little bot that tracks the number of RC Bugs in the Debian Testing distribution, has been up and running since August. While it has been running mostly without a problem (there have been a few minor issues), there were a few things about it that really bothered me. The most…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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.…
-
Understanding Debian Releases
The cycle of Debian‘s releases is not an usual one. Most Linux distributions follow two paths. Some of them follow a strict periodicity, and we see a new version being released according to that periodicity. For example, Ubuntu releases a new version every six months. Other distributions, however, choose their release dates according to other…