Things I write for Planet FedoraProject consumption
The only problem with putting your head down and your back against the stone is that sometimes you almost miss out on the scenery. Dear Trent, I’m guessing you made out pretty well on that whole Ghosts I-IV thing. Thanks for putting the bastards in their place with another CC-licensed …
It’s true, we had some problems with permission bits and rsync last night with the release candidate, which has resulted in some incomplete leaky mirrors. Users who try these mirrors may find that they don’t get what they’re bargaining for, because of missing bits. (Not to mention which, everything’s still …
Karsten, I don’t think we should be using, or telling others to use, the /dev/sd* device names at all anymore, when there’s a far better alternative — /dev/disk/*. The /dev/disk/* namespace has several ways for identifying your disks beyond a shadow of a doubt. For instance, /dev/disk/by-label/* files show your …
In the tradition of Max’s “lesser known Fedora contributors” series of blogs from last year, I wanted to recognize people you may not know, who make an enormous difference in Fedora every single day. This is the first in a series that I’ll be highlighting around our Fedora 9 release, …
Jef Spaleta prepared new builds of Istanbul, the GNOME screencast recorder, that feature a fix for a long-standing pernicious GStreamer problem. Most Fedora maintainers wouldn’t carry this sort of fix as a patch because it’s pure silliness (basically “ignore this error”), but upstream GNOME is living with it for now …
Bumpy ride. To continue today’s epic streak of bad luck: My softphone gave out on me right before I was supposed to speak on an agenda item at a meeting this afternoon. My landline was in use by the wife, and when she got off, the conference system wouldn’t let …
A few weeks after the release of Fedora 9, it will be once again time for Fedora Project Board elections. This time around, as you may have heard, we have shifted our composition to five elected seats out of nine, instead of the previous four. Are you someone who thinks …
A banner day thus far — only wasted two hours this morning getting my wireless setup back to something resembling “working.” Last night I tried replacing my old D-Link AP with a new WRT54GL, in the hopes that I could later flash that unit to something from OpenWrt or DD-WRT. …
Note: This is a bastardization (and cleanup) of a post I made yesterday to the fedora-marketing-list. I think it’s actually very applicable to EVERYONE in the Fedora project, especially if you deal with users. It is *absolutely vital* that all of us be on the same page for how to …
Congratulations to the first Fedora L10n Steering Committee (FLSCo). It’s nice to see so many hard-working translators, whose names I’ve seen many times in various source code commits email, stepping up to lead Fedora’s Localization efforts. These folks really do prove our reputation of meritocracy — they put their money …