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Mon, 03 Nov 2008

Dear Lazyweb,

I use Icedove / Thunderbird for nearly all of my daily mail business. I use it to read blogs, too. However, since I work from different computers, on my mails, I'm slightly annoyed since it seems not possible to synchronize several important settings in an easy way.

Is it somehow possible to synchronise:

  • address book
  • Read post of the subscribed blogs
  • Installed extensions

I rely heavily on the automatic completion of e-mail addresses and like, that Thunderbird automatically adds recipients of mails I send to an address book for later use. However it seems to be not possible to share these entries between several computers.

Similar to subscribed blogs. I'm subscribed to some blogs on different computers. However I need to "synchronize" which posts I already read by hand.

Last, not least: From time to time I find and install a new extension to Thunderbird, which I install on one computer. And later forget to install the very same extension on the other computers :(

Yes, technically I could solve these problems myself. E.g. by using the rss2mail script to read blogs via my imap server, or by using some kind of version control for my Thunderbird settings. But that seems kind of ugly to me. Isn't there a better way?

postet at 11:00 into [Debian] permanent link


Tue, 28 Oct 2008

release critical bug stats

The unofficial rc bug thingy currently lists:

  • 177 rc Bugs affecting the next stable release Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 Lenny:
    • 82 Bugs of them, fixed in the unstable branch Sid
    • 95 Bugs open in both, Lenny and Sid of these:
      • 6 marked as pending
      • 14 have already a patch
      • 11 have been reported multiple times

Ignoring bugs, which are marked pending, have a patch, have been reported multiple times or concern packages in contrib or non-free, that leaves 65 release critical bugs.

Again a big improvement compared to the numbers of last week. Thanks for everyone helping!

However 20 of them have been reported more than 30 days ago; maybe they are quite complicated, so please pay special attention to them.

Last week we had 49 of these old release critical bugs; seems that progress is done here, too :)

postet at 18:24 into [Debian] permanent link


Mon, 20 Oct 2008

release critical bug stats

The unofficial rc bug thingy currently lists:

  • 217 rc Bugs affecting the next stable release Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 Lenny:
    • 87 Bugs of them, fixed in the unstable branch Sid
    • 130 Bugs open in both, Lenny and Sid of these:
      • 5 marked as pending
      • 18 have already a patch
      • 11 have been reported multiple times

Ignoring bugs, which are marked pending, have a patch, have been reported multiple times or concern packages in contrib or non-free, that leaves 95 release critical bugs.

Sadly that's not that well compared to the numbers from last week. But thanks for everyone helping!

However 49 of them have been reported more than 30 days ago; maybe they are quite complicated, so please pay special attention to them.

postet at 22:43 into [Debian] permanent link


Mon, 13 Oct 2008

release critical bug stats

The unofficial rc bug thingy currently lists:

  • 200 rc Bugs affecting the next stable release Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 Lenny:
    • 90 Bugs of them, fixed in the unstable branch Sid
    • 110 Bugs open in both, Lenny and Sid of these:
      • 14 marked as pending
      • 28 have already a patch
      • 13 have been reported multiple times

Ignoring bugs, which are marked pending, have a patch, have been reported multiple times or concern packages in contrib or non-free, that leaves 63 release critical bugs.

That's quite impressive compared to the numbers from last week. Thanks for everyone helping!

However 36 of them have been reported more than 30 days ago; maybe they are quite complicated, so please pay special attention to them.

PS: Yes, I know, that the layout of my webpage breaks the nested lists above. Sorry; will fix it soon.

postet at 16:51 into [Debian] permanent link


Tue, 07 Oct 2008

About the number of rc bugs

In addition to my last post, here some information about the current number of release critical bugs.

Yes, it is true, that our official bug tracker lists the next release has still 264 bugs1. And some wonder, when Lenny will be released.

It's a little bit difficult to work with that page, let's look at the unofficial rc bug thingy I already mentioned in my previous post. As you might have noticed it supports several filters mechanism the official bts don't have. At the very bottom of the detailed list you'll see the overall number of the bugs matching your selected filter. So let's have a look at the number of bugs, which are already fixed in the unstable branch and need to propagate to Lenny. Currently that are 118 RC bugs.

Of those 264 preventing us to release, 118 are already fixed; the fix just hasn't arrived in Lenny, yet.

Okay, but there are still 147 rc Bugs open in both Lenny and Sid. So let's take a look at them. By using the filters at the top, you can calculate, that 19 already have a patch. 14 are marked pending (so they are already fixed, but the maintainer hasn't uploaded the package yet). 15 of these bugs have been reported multiple times and have been merged. Oh, and 3 are about packages in non-free and contrib.

Granted, for some of them, there is a patch, but the patch needs to be tested, or the bug has been marked pending by mistake. But still: If you ignore all these types of bugs, there are only 104 bugs left. one-hundred-and-four!

Summary: So the only thing left (beside the points I mention in my previous post) to do, is to migrate 118 fixes to Lenny somehow, get the 33 fixes for the probably fixed bugs uploaded, and fix the remaining 104 bugs.

Yes, that's still a lot of work to do... So let's get things rolling, shall we?

1: You might further notice, that the current stable release is affected by more than 700 bugs. However many of them are false counts, e.g. when a specific package doesn't build with a newer version of a compiler. The package in the current stable release is of course affected, so there it is kind of buggy. However, we can ignore these kind of bugs, since the newer version of the compiler isn't shipped in the current stable release at all. Those bugs should actually be tagged sid and lenny...

postet at 21:34 into [Debian] permanent link


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Alexander Tolimar Reichle-Schmehl lives in Tuttlingen / Germany. He works as IT manager (specialized on Unix and SAN/Storage) for an international automotive supplier.

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