Tue, 26 Jul 2011
-273,15, aka Absolute Zero
Continuing the shameless self-praise from our ftp-team talk, I'm now
pleased to present you on behalf of the entire FTP-Team the following:
As you can clearly see, you can see nothing. Yes, nothing! As of 18:55:52 UTC+2 the NEW queue, which at some times was well over 500, sometimes even 600 packages is now empty. Completely empty.
To the best of my (and Ganneff's knowledge) the last time the NEW queue was empty was at least five years ago.
Interesting enough, that triggered an yet undiscovered bug in dak, which refused to scan an empty directory...
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Slides of the How to contribute and get involved
The slides for our How to contribute and get involved
are now
available at http://people.debian.org/~tolimar/talks/debconf-11/.
Feel free to ask any questions we might have left unanswered via e-mail or irc chat (I'm
Tolimar on irc.debian.org).
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Fri, 15 Jul 2011
About Debian, The Hurd and Linux or in short: Yes, we will still have a Linux kernel
A lot of online magazines are currently reporting about Debian, its port
to the Hurd kernel and plans for the next release. However, there seem to
be quite some misunderstandings. One online magazine took the cake by
titling Debian 7.0 Wheezy: Erste Pläne für Hurd statt Linux-Kernel
(rough translation: Debian 7.0 Wheezy: First plans for Hurd instead of
Linux kernel
), and a colleague already asked me, if we are really going
to drop the Linux kernel.
So let's clarify one thing: The Debian Project does not plan to drop its port to the Linux kernel (nor its two ports to the FreeBSD kernel for what it's worth).
Apparently it all started with a short status report and if you read it, you'll just read that some people are trying and planing to get Debian 7 (aka wheezy) to be released with an additional port to the Hurd. It is not yet clear if they will achieve their goal, nor did anyone ever mention anything about replacing the Linux or the FreeBSD kernel.
So, calm down, nothing changed, just someone talking about the possibility of adding yet another port to the next release. Please note the adding.
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