indolence logAnthony Towns' blog.Dak Extensions- March 21, 2008 One of the challenges maintaining the Debian archive kit (dak) is dealing with Debian-specific requirements: fundamentally because there are a lot of them, and they can get quite hairy &8211; yet at the same time, you want to keep them as separate as possible both so dak can be used elsewhere, and just so you can keep your head around what&8217;s going on. You can always add in hooks, but that tends to make the code even harder to understand, and it doesn&8217;t really achieve much if you...http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/blog/2008/03/22#2008-03-22-extensions The second half...- March 6, 2008 Continuing from where we left off&8230; The lower bound for me becoming a DD was 8th Feb &8216;98 when I applied; for comparison, the upper bound as best I can make out was 23rd Feb, when I would have received this mail through the debian-private list: Resent-Date: 23 Feb 1998 18:18:57 -0000 From: Martin Schulze To: Debian Private Subject: New accepted maintainers Hi folks, I wish you a pleasant beginning of the week. Here are the first good news of the week (probably). This is the...http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/blog/2008/03/07#2008-03-07-10years2 Been a while...- March 1, 2008 So, sometime over the past few weeks I clocked up ten years as a Debian developer: From: Anthony Towns <ajhumbug.org.au> Subject: Wannabe maintainer. Date: Sun, 8 Feb 1998 18:35:28 +1000 (EST) To: new-maintainerdebian.org Hello world, I'd like to become a debian maintainer. I'd like an account on master, and for it to be subscribed to the debian-private list. My preferred login on master would have been aj, but as that's taken ajt or atowns would be great. I've run a debian system..http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/blog/2008/03/02#2008-03-02-tenyears |