Things I write for Planet FedoraProject consumption
Fedora’s very own John Rose is among the winners of the 2009 RHCE of the Year award bestowed by Red Hat. I wanted to extend a very hearty congratulations to John and the rest of the winners, and thank him for all the fine work he does in the Fedora …
I had a great time on Friday collaborating with Máirín Duffy on a new look for fedoraproject.org. This is somewhat related to the changes we’re making to the get.fedoraproject.org (also called “get-fedora”) and spins.fedoraproject.org sites. For those of us who are involved in Fedora all the time, it’s easy to …
From the “Wow, I should have posted this last week” file: I heard through the grapevine that there’s an episode of Hacker Public Radio available in which Klaatu interviews me regarding some of the work I did in one of my previous lives. We did this down at the Southeast …
Every so often I take a trip up to Red Hat’s office in Westford so I can sit down face to face with people to make sure we’re doing all we can to enable our community to do awesome things. These trips are always jam-packed with meetings and so I …
I’ve just discovered the hamster-applet package in Fedora 11, and I think I’ve found another great productivity tool. Courtesy of Project Hamster, it’s a time tracking tool that doesn’t try to be more clever than I am, and instead stays out of my way while I work. It gives me …
The Fedora Documentation team needs some short-term help from a few people who can help us resolve some licensing snafu’s. I’ve been working with Docs, Marketing, and several other teams to finally get a content management system lifted off for Fedora. This system would let us do a better job …
For a while now, I’ve been working on plans for a FAD to work on our Fedora Talk VoIP system. There are a couple gaps I’d really like to fill, such as the ability to record, publish, and/or stream calls. These features would make the system much more capable of …
Today in a nutshell, since I’m running on empty and can’t be creative right now: 0700: Left house for Raleigh. 1030: Arrive Red Hat. Meet Max just as I’m about to enter the building, and almost fail to recognize him because his hair’s so short. ? Head upstairs, open laptop, …
According to this posting to the fedora-test-list by Liam, there’s going to be some installation testing for the Fedora 12 (Constantine) Alpha candidate next week, on Wednesday July 29. This is a chance to shake out some of the new features in the Anaconda installation application that have come in …
Regarding an earlier post, I made some changes to my NetworkManager dispatcher script. The problem with the original was that it reset defer_transports when any interface went down, without regard for redundancy. Since I use my laptop in my home office, it’s often plugged into a wired network. When I …