Ian Jackson

I have just sent an open letter to the Board of the Wikimedia Foundation, the umbrella organisation for Wikipedia (and a number of other projects), expressing my support for Wiki Workers United and the unionisation effort by WMF staff.

Introduction A plea to the undecided voter Table Notes Debian LLM GR - Summary of the options Introduction LLMs have finally made it to the ultimate stage of Debian’s governance processes, a General Resolution of all the project’s full governing members (…

Introduction tag2upload allows authorised Debian contributors to upload to Debian simply by pushing a signed git tag to Debian’s gitlab instance, Salsa.

tl;dr: There is a Debian git transition plan.

tl;dr: tag2upload (beta) is going well so far, and is already handling around one in 13 uploads to Debian.

There is a thread of opinion in some Free Software communities, that we shouldn’t be doing “politics”, and instead should just focus on technology.

Rust, and resistance to it in some parts of the Linux community, has been in my feed recently.

derive-deftly 1.0 is released. derive-deftly is a template-based derive-macro facility for Rust.

tl;dr: The Rust Foundation’s new trademark policy still forbids unapproved modifications: this would forbid both the Rust Community’s own development work(!)

derive-deftly, the template-based derive-macro facility for Rust, has been a great success.

tl;dr: Your vote really counts!

ceb and I are members of the Derril Water Solar Park cooperative.

tl;dr: Don’t just apt install rustc cargo.

I recently had the most astonishingly bad experience with UPS, the courier company.

tl;dr: If you are a Debian user who knows git, don’t work with Debian source packages.

I hacked my coffee machine to let me turn it on from upstairs in bed :-).

Recently I completed a small project, including an embedded microcontroller.

Many people seem to be pretending that the pandemic is over.

This last weekend I completed a bike rides project I started during the first Covid lockdown in 2020: I’ve cycled to every settlement (and radio observatory) within 20km of my house, in alphabetical order.

If you are an email system administrator, you are probably using DKIM to sign your outgoing emails.

I have started to make private posts, accessible only to my Dreamwidth access list.

Instructions Get the official installation image from the usual locations.

tl;dr The Rust Foundation’s proposed new trademark policy is far too restrictive, and will cause (more) drama unless it is substantially revised.

tl;dr git submodules are always the wrong solution.

tl;dr Have you ever wished that you could that could write a new derive macro without having to mess with procedural macros?