Yes, finally we made it! Thanks in particular to Carl Chenet and to Luca Bruno we were able to reduce the reportbug bugs count below 150!
It was a very long road (when I joined the team there was 230-something bugs opened) and I hoped to achieve this some time ago, but the fought goals are the most relevant ones.
Of course, the just released version 4.9 contains quite some bug fixes and enhancements: if you have the chance, give it a look and report any regression or feature request you see fit, but not too much: I want to enjoy the barrier just broken :)
2009-11-27
2009-11-22
Goodbye MIA team
I can't simply put up any longer with all the shit thrown on the face being unable to do punish such bad behavior. There are just so many other things that increase my anger (like, for example, "WTH is python2.6 still not in unstable?!") that I don't need another one.
For sure, I don't advocate or encourage anyone to join the MIA team, and I'm speaking with a lot of experience... There is a proposal, from zack, to restructure how MIA works (another bright example of collaboration...): when will it be implemented? nobody knows. will it help? I don't think so (much).
My work (MIA work in general) was almost invisible, like invisible were all the harsh and aggressive replies I got. The nice part is that those replies came from people with the worst situation. Something like:
And when you got really pissed off, and want to see some sort of reaction on such bad and unmotivated attacks and ask the "People with Powers", what do you got? "sorry, we can't do anything to help you, it's your problem". Something should be done to protect people from fuckheads, make them behave, or else kick them out of the project as far away as we can. But what we got is nothing (and nothing seems to be changing on this side).
Well, now it's not my problem anymore, it's someone else: in perfect Debian-style.
For sure, I don't advocate or encourage anyone to join the MIA team, and I'm speaking with a lot of experience... There is a proposal, from zack, to restructure how MIA works (another bright example of collaboration...): when will it be implemented? nobody knows. will it help? I don't think so (much).
My work (MIA work in general) was almost invisible, like invisible were all the harsh and aggressive replies I got. The nice part is that those replies came from people with the worst situation. Something like:
- me: "this package has no uploads since 2005", reply: "this package has no upstream release since 1983" - 1. probably is to remove? 2. what about all the bugs filed against the *Debian* package? 3. what about the gazillion of lintian errors and warnings on that package? 4. MIA doesn't contact about only 1 package (so maybe there's something more?)...
- me: "one of your packages has 4 RC bugs", reply: "it's team maintainer!!" - yeah, so let's pretend that since it's team-maintained 'someone else' (that's never you) will work on it.
And when you got really pissed off, and want to see some sort of reaction on such bad and unmotivated attacks and ask the "People with Powers", what do you got? "sorry, we can't do anything to help you, it's your problem". Something should be done to protect people from fuckheads, make them behave, or else kick them out of the project as far away as we can. But what we got is nothing (and nothing seems to be changing on this side).
Well, now it's not my problem anymore, it's someone else: in perfect Debian-style.
2009-11-21
Matplotlib for Python Developers - PUBLISHED!
Some days are passed, but I'm still pleased to announce that
It was a really nice experience, it offered me the possibility to work on Matplotlib, do some really interesting stuff, and I'm quite proud of it :)
On the other hand, it was not a "straight" way: the effort I put in this was huge, practically I had to stop all other stuffs and projects I was working on (Debian included) and I was getting more and more tired as time passed. Also, sometimes Packt employees and actions were somehow problematic. but anyhow, the important thing is that THE BOOK IS OUT!!
Now I got also a nice box about the book on the sidebar of this blog!
Enjoy it!!
It was a really nice experience, it offered me the possibility to work on Matplotlib, do some really interesting stuff, and I'm quite proud of it :)
On the other hand, it was not a "straight" way: the effort I put in this was huge, practically I had to stop all other stuffs and projects I was working on (Debian included) and I was getting more and more tired as time passed. Also, sometimes Packt employees and actions were somehow problematic. but anyhow, the important thing is that THE BOOK IS OUT!!
Now I got also a nice box about the book on the sidebar of this blog!
Enjoy it!!
2009-11-10
Another round of Google Wave invites
Big-G just gave me another number of invites for Wave: if you want one, just leave your gmail address as comment to this post (only here, it's easier).
UPDATE (@13.33 CEST): invites are finished, look at the list of those invited here.
UPDATE (@13.33 CEST): invites are finished, look at the list of those invited here.
2009-11-09
Debian Whiteboard
How cool is that? Did you already tried it? if so, you already know, if not, well go and play with it soon!
Kumar introduced me (thanks!) to it, and now when I need to collaboratively edit a text, I do with that.
Kumar introduced me (thanks!) to it, and now when I need to collaboratively edit a text, I do with that.
2009-11-08
Things that make me angry
- when people upload to Debian with an @ubuntu.com email address
- even worst, if they do that when they are DDs (so with a @debian.org address)
2009-11-02
Google Wave Invites
Still looking for an invite to Google Wave? I got some, so give me your GMail address (either via email, IRC or as comment here).
UPDATE: invites are finished quite fastly - I'll repost when (if) they'll give me others.
UPDATE: invites are finished quite fastly - I'll repost when (if) they'll give me others.
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