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Migrating to Dreamwidth
I am migrating my blog to Dreamwidth. I have a lot of fond memories of Livejournal over the years, and miss the world of blogging that was ( Read more... ) -
Making our Community Safe: the FSF and rms
I felt disgust and horror when I learned yesterday that rms had returned to the FSF board. When rms resigned back in September of 2019, I was Debian Project Leader. At that time, I felt two things. First, I was happy that the community was finally taking a stand in favor of inclusion, respect, and creating a safe, welcoming place to do our work ( Read more... ) -
Good Job Debian: Compatibility back to 1999
So, I needed a container of Debian Slink (2.1), released back in 1999. I expected this was going to be a long and involved process. Things didn't look good from the start:
root@mount-peerless:/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/sqlalchemy# debootstrap slink /build/slink2 ( Read more... ) -
Forged Email
Last night, a series of forged emails was sent to a number of places around the Debian, Ubuntu and Free Software communities. The meat of the mail was a fake message from me to debian-private with the subject "DebConf19 Diversity Girls." I didn't write such a message ( Read more... ) -
Music for Debian
December has been a difficult month for me and I think for Debian as a whole. It was strongly suggested to me that I (and Debian in general) needed more music. I'm reminded of the fun I had dancing with you all at DebConf. It's been a while since I dug out my DJ kit. But Dec 25, I pulled it out and spent a couple of hours looking at some of the ( Read more... ) -
Voting Guide for Debian Init Systems GR
There are a lot of options on the ballot for the Init Systems GRThere have been hundreds of messages on debian-vote, and more scattered ( Read more... ) -
The Case for Proposal B
This is my personal opinion, not that of the project leader. Tomorrow,
I'll write an essay trying to discuss the various options in with as
little bias as I can manage (although even that will be Sam's opinion).
Several people have asked me why I included Proposal B.
This is my answer.
While I was talking to people about systemd and init systems, ( Read more... ) -
Free as in Sausage Making: Inside the Debian Project
Recently, we’ve been having some discussion around the use of non-free software and services in doing our Debian work. In judging consensus surrounding a discussion of Git packaging, I said that we do not have a consensus to forbid the use of non-free services like Github. I stand behind that consensus call. Ian Jackson, who initially thought that ( Read more... ) -
AH/DAM/DPL Meet Up
All the members of the Antiharassment team met with the Debian Account Managers and the DPL in that other Cambridge- the one with proper behaviour, not the one where pounds are weight and not money ( Read more... ) -
Questioning and Finding Purpose
This is copied over from my spiritual blog. I'm nervous doing that, especially at a point when I'm more vulnerable than usual in the Debian community. Still, this is who I am, and I want to be proud of that rather than hide it. And Debian and the free software community are about far more than just the programs we write. So hear goes:
The ( Read more... )