Sorry I’ve been less bloggy this week. I am up in Westford at the Red Hat offices and, since I’m rarely here, the meeting compression ratio is frankly enormous. My calendar had almost no white space left after around Monday at lunchtime, and I actually have had to double-book a …
In front of “The Dark Knight” last night was a teaser trailer for “Watchmen.” To quote another geeky staple, “I have a bad feeling about this.” The Smashing Pumpkins music didn’t rattle me — very often there’s temp track music used for teasers to drum up a certain kind of …
It’s not a bad idea, before you embark on a week-long trip away from home, leaving your wife with the mutant beasties called “children,” to make sure you give her a sanity break. So I sent Eleya out today to go see “The Dark Knight” on her own. I still …
Our Fedora Infrastructure team keeps everything that we use for our project running. Day in, day out. They nip the problems in the bud. They find the dark corners of innumerable web apps and sweep them clean. They do it while you and I are asleep sometimes. And they do …
NOTE: I thought I had posted this last week, but apparently it got filed away as a draft. Mea culpa. John Poelstra and I introduced an informal release day planning group for Fedora 9. The goal was to act as a sort of cross-project resolution center, making sure that the …
Red Hat just posted an interesting press blog entry about how Fedora’s licensing requirements — far from being a hindrance — are helping the broader open source community. By doing our part, in collaboration with Zimbra, to fix a troublesome bit in the Yahoo! Public License, we’ve helped them achieve …
I’m still working out better organizational methods for my email. I tend to keep copies of publicly archived mailing lists. I do a lot of server-side filtering, and all my lists get filed into folders away from my Inbox. My Inbox only contains things sent directly to me. I have …
Fedora contributors can now vote on the Fedora 10 release name. You have your choice of nine names of varying appeal. For each choice, you can indicate a level of approval by rating it from 0-9 points. You do not need to rank names against each other. In other words, …
It was a nice weekend even though it was blisteringly hot. Saturday my wife took my daughter out for haircuts and some shopping, so I stayed at home with Trouble (we should probably just get around to changing my son’s name legally) and we played a bit. I also checked …