Martin Pitt

I finally listened to Sebastien Bacher and applied for GNOME commit rights yesterday, after hassling Seb once more about committing an approved patch for me.

These days I often use launchpadlib in my projects for scripting access/modifications in Launchpad.

Ich wünsche allen ein gutes, gesundes und erfolgreiches Jahr 2010!

The days before Chistmas are a wonderfully quiet time to catch up on old work which otherwise just drowns in the daily noise.

Yesterday PostgreSQL released new security/bug fix microreleases 8.4.2, 8.3.9, and 8.1.19, which fix two security issues and a whole bunch of bugs.

Am Samstag waren wir wie schon viele Jahre zuvor bei Anne zum traditionellen Plätzchen/Pfefferkuchenhaus backen.

On the long flight back from UDS-Lucid I read the Vala tutorial on my ebook, and did some of the exercises.

The day has come!

A while ago I introduced a script lp-project-upload to automate tarball release uploads to Launchpad.

when you go to dinner in a car^Wtank^Wbattleship^Wrazy something like this: I savely arrived in our hotel in Dallas, Texas this afternoon, after a rather uneventful 14 hour trip from Dresden via Frankfurt.

Requirements Through the last years I have used various own hacks for backing up my desktop(s).

Vor einer Weile habe ich ein wirklich interessantes und schönes Motiv gefunden und fotografiert.

Ein gruselig schönes Halloween an Euch alle!

… auf der Taekwondo-Leiter ist erreicht!

PostgreSQL recently published new point releases which fix the usual range of important bugs (data loss/wrong results, etc.) and additionally fix another case of insecure “security definer” functions (the analogon to setuid programs in file system space f…

It has been broken for two months, since we upgraded to the “new” (not quite any more) gdm in Karmic: But I finally got around to re-doing the gdm patch for supporting a guest session for 2.27.

I moved my blog from its old wordpress.com home to my own server, replacing my ancient home page. — Mein Blog ist von seiner alten wordpress.com-Heimat auf meinen eigenen Server umgezogen, und hat damit auch gleich meine Uralt-Homepage ersetzt.

Hier stelle ich alle Dokumente zur Verfügung, die andere Leute interessieren könnten.

My own projects/main developer python-dbusmock: Mock D-Bus objects for creating integration tests umockdev: record/mock hardware devices for bug reports and regression tests Apport: create rich crash and bug information on Linux clients, and send them to…

I often do upstream releases of my upstream projects that I do on Launchpad, mostly for Apport and jockey.

Today I returned from a great mini-vacation (long weekend).

In the merciless vendetta for purging hal we now reached another major milestone: gvfs, GNOME’s file system layer which handles USB storage as well as virtual file systems for libgphoto2 cameras, Bluetooth devices, audio CDs, or ftp/sftp/cifs mounts, is n…

So far, Apport package hooks were limited to collecting data from the local system.

The migration away from hal continues.

This morning I added a test script to the Apport bug patterns.

I recently started working on packaging pieces of the new DeviceKit world, which is gradually replacing hal.

Some days ago, the first public beta of PostgreSQL 8.4 was announced.

Today I was sitting in the plane from Dresden to San Francisco, and worked on my DKMS demo for the Linux Foundation summit.

Yes!

Still remember the “hal is dead, long live DeviceKit” buzz?

I was really looking forward to today.

The next Ubuntu release (9.04, “Jaunty Jackalope”) will see the first set of changes introduced by Canonical’s Desktop Experience Team: The much-discussed notify-osd notification system, and the indicator applet.

I just read Scott’s post about IM notifications.

Yay, I finally got my PRS-505 e-Book reader!

Oh the joys of Christmas presents… I gave a shiny new 24″ widescreen TFT to my wife, to replace that shabby and flickering 15″ CRT that drove me mad after working on it for ten minutes.

I could not resist and ordered myself a Christmas present, a Sony PRS-505 e-Book reader (it’s all Martin Pool’s fault!

I spent the last week in Portland, Oregon, at the Linux Plumbers Conference.

I just released the first beta release of Jockey 0.5, which fixes a ton of bugs compared to the first Alpha from two weeks ago.

I’m quite a heavy user of chroots, since I work with many different releases, and Debian, too.

I have banged my head around integrating PackageKit into Jockey for several days now, and it’s driving me up the wall.

In order to provide a sensible upstream implementation for package query/install/remove methods in Jockey, I started playing with PackageKit and recently packaged and fixed the latest upstream version 0.2.2 work reasonably well on Intrepid.

A while ago I blogged about my participation in the c’t programming contest to write a bot that plays against the 1979 Atari console.

Wow, thanks to all for all the good feedback and suggestions I got about the v4l-dvb driver package.

Following up on my recent blog to make my Hauppauge WinTV Nova-T play under Hardy, and my ongoing work for improving the driver situation under Ubuntu and Linux in general, I finally packaged the current development snapshot of the Video4Linux DVB drivers.

I finally sorted out some remaining issues and released a new Jockey.

As a lot of you were rightfully complaining, the automatic Apport crash bug retracers had been offline for about two weeks.

Thanks to David for summarizing the future of hardware management.

The other day I read about the current c’t programming contest and got addicted immediately.

Today I was playing with python-coverage, which seems to be the tool of choice for code coverage measurement in Python.

After 17 hours of long flights and hectic interchanges I made it to Austin, Texas last Saturday, yay!