indolence logAnthony Towns' blog.On freedom- April 18, 2008 One of the freedoms I value is the freedom to choose what you spend your time on and who you spend it with. And while I&8217;ve spent a lot of time arguing that people in key roles in Debian still have those freedoms (hey, 2.1(1), don&8217;t you know), reality these days seems to be otherwise. But hey, solving that quandry just requires a mail to DSA. To folks on the core teams I&8217;ve been involved with: it&8217;s been a pleasure and an honour working with you; if not always, at least...http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/blog/2008/04/18#2008-04-18-on-freedom Jigdo Downloads- April 15, 2008 Last month we had a brief discussion on debian-devel about what images would be good to have for lenny &8211; we&8217;re apparently up to about 30 CDs or 4 DVDs per architecture, which over 12 architectures adds to about 430GB in total. That&8217;s a lot, given it&8217;s only one release, and meanwhile the entire Debian archive is only 324GB. The obvious way to avoid that is to make use of jigdo &8211; which lets you recreate an iso from a small template and the existing Debian mirror network..http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/blog/2008/04/15#2008-04-15-jigdodl A New DPL...- April 15, 2008 In a couple of days, DPL-elect Steve McIntyre takes over as DPL, after being elected by around four hundred of his peers&8230; Because I can&8217;t help myself, I thought I might poke at election numbers and see if anything interesting fell out. First the basics: I get the same results as the official ones when recounting the vote. Using first-past-the-post, Steve wins with 147 first preference votes against Raphael&8217;s 124, Marc&8217;s 90 and NOTA&8217;s 19 (with votes that specify a tie...http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/blog/2008/04/15#2008-04-15-changes |