Mon, 09 Apr 2007
Gunnar,
It was on your blog. At least if I didn't miscopy the URL back then. And, no, I again don't remember where I was when Sarge released. I do know where I was when etch released, though—at home, on IRC.
:-P
My DPL ballot
So, now that the results of the DPL vote are in, I feel I can reasonably show my DPL ballot without doing something which I would consider "campaigning". And since I've done this a few times in the past now, I feel I ought to do it again. So, here goes:
[ 1 ] Choice 1: Wouter Verhelst [ 6 ] Choice 6: Aigars Mahinovs [ 4 ] Choice 3: Gustavo Franco [ 2 ] Choice 4: Sam Hocevar [ 1 ] Choice 5: Steve McIntyre [ 5 ] Choice 6: Raphaël Hertzog [ 5 ] Choice 7: Anthony Towns [ 3 ] Choice 8: Simon Richter [ ] Choice 9: None Of The Above
I guess it's no surprise I put myself up first. Running for DPL is a serious business, so it makes no sense running if you don't believe in it yourself. However, as I expressed during campaigning, I believe Steve was a very strong candidate, too; so I wouldn't have mind if it was him who won instead of me.
Next, I put Sam Hocevar, since he also had a rather strong platform; he has some experience in leading a project (albeit on a much smaller scale); and yes, humour is good, too. I didn't put him first too, because there are some things in his platform that I have second thoughts on (mainly some of the technical matters that I believe have nothing to do with the DPL), but that didn't cause me to rank him down.
Simon Richter had a rather weak platform, and failed to convince me during campaigning, too. That I still put him rather high has everything to do with having met him in person a few times.
What follows are people I would have preferred not to see elected. I didn't feel that strong about it that I would vote them below NOTA, but still.
Gustavo is very enthousiastic and had many projects he would have liked to accomplish, but I sensed some naivete coming from him. Therefore, I wasn't sure he'd make a good DPL.
If I look at this past year, I look at a lot of unneeded bitterness. Some of that bitterness is a direct result of actions the DPL took; others are a result of things the DPL failed to act upon properly. Therefore, I feel the current DPL hasn't done much of what I want a DPL to do. Ranked along with him is Raphaël; after thinking about it, I think a DPL election is not the right place to promote a replacement structure in place of the DPL. Hence.
Last, I've put Aigars. I'm sorry to say that I feel his platform has lost all touch with reality.
Finally, I'd like to congratulate Sam Hocevar for winning, and Steve for making a very close second—again. I don't know about him, but I'd be rather frustrated with such a result.
Etch m68k
So now that etch is out, m68k is no longer an officially supported port in the latest version of Debian . However, if you have a look at a DMNY[1], you'll see the following:
ncftp /debian/dists > ls Debian3.1r6@ proposed-updates@ Debian4.0r0@ README etch/ sarge/ etch-m68k/ sid/ etch-proposed-updates/ stable@ experimental/ stable-proposed-updates@ lenny/ testing@ lenny-proposed-updates/ testing-proposed-updates@ oldstable@ unstable@
Note the 4th line of output:
etch-m68k/
Yes, that means there is a way out for users of Debian/m68k. The etch-m68k suite will allow us to update patckages for etch on m68k only, much like the AMD64 folks did on sarge. This is necessary, since etch/m68k is a bit too different from 'regular' etch.
Want to help? Head over to debian-68k@lists.debian.org and/or #debian-68k on OFTC. Help is always welcome.
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Firefox
To the people who developed Firefox...
You utter cocks, Linux is not Windows.
Love,
Wouter
Some mail is welcome in /dev/null. Real mail, however, is welcome at my email address
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