Martin Pitt

I released PyGObject 3.3.3.

A few weeks ago I wrote about my new role as an upstream QA engineer.

I just released PyGObject 3.3.2, (almost) in time for tomorrow’s GNOME 3.5.2 release.

New PostgreSQL microreleases with two security fixes and several bug fixes was just announced publically.

I just uploaded Apport 2.1 to Quantal.

As I wrote two weeks ago, I consider the QA related changes in Ubuntu 12.04 a great success.

The first Beta of the upcoming PostgreSQL 9.2 was released yesterday (see announcement).

This announcement comes very late (a week after release), but better late than never..

Half a year ago I blogged about the changed expectancies and processes to improve quality of the development release which we discussed at the UDS in Orlando: A promise that we don’t break the development version, regressions are not to be tolerated, acce…

I just released a new pygobject version 3.1.92, for this week’s GNOME 3.3.92.

Part of our efforts to reduce power consumption in Ubuntu is to provide an easy tool to hunt down which programs and devices are to blame for inordinate power consumption. powertop’s interactive mode is pretty good for this if you are sitting in a train a…

Part of our efforts to reduce power consumption is to identify processes which keep waking up the disk even when the computer is idle.

PackageKit has a “WhatProvides” API for mapping distribution independent concepts to particular package names.

Suppose you install Ubuntu and select a language other than English (it’s known to happen!).

On my 8 hour train ride to Budapest last Sunday I finally worked on making libxklavier introspectable.

I’m the release engineer in charge for Precise Alpha 1 which is currently being prepared.

Apport and the retracer bot in the Canonical data center have provided server-side automatic closing of duplicate crash report bugs for quite a long time.

I arrived back home in Augsburg, from last week’s Ubuntu Developer Summit in Orlando, FL.

Just took the plunge, using the excellent bandwidth and local mirror at UDS: `Just took the plunge, using the excellent bandwidth and local mirror at UDS: ` Nothing blew up in my face, so it seems today is a good day to die^Wupgrade.

On a rather calm ten-hour flight to Orlando I once again did some pygobject, udisks, and Apport hacking (It’s scary how productive one can be when not constantly being interrupted by IRC, email, etc).

7 years ago, The Ubuntu 4.10 “The Warty Warthog” was announced.

Ich habe gerade Gestatten, Elite zu Ende gelesen (ging schnell, hab erst gestern angefangen).

Hot on the heels of the PostgreSQL 9.1.0 release I am happy to announce that the final version is now packaged for Debian unstable, the current Ubuntu development version “Oneiric”, and also in my Ubuntu backports PPA for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, 10.10, and 11.0…

PostgreSQL 9.1 has had its first release candidate out for some two weeks without major problem reports, so it’s time to promote this more heavily.

The tool to reprocess an Apport crash report to produce a symbolic stack trace, apport-retrace, has been pretty hard to use on a developer system so far: It either installed the packages from the crash report, plus its debug symbol packages (“ddebs”) into…

Wir sind wieder da, und diesmal sogar völlig ohne menschliche oder radtechnische Schäden!

Hot on the heels of the Announcement of the second 9.1 Beta release there are now packages for it in Debian experimental and backports for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, 10.10. and 11.04 in my PostgreSQL backports for stable Ubuntu releases PPA.

Two weeks ago, PostgreSQL announced the first beta version of the new major 9.1 version, with a lot of anticipated new features like synchronous replication or better support for multilingual databases.

Update at 13:06 UTC: Corrected NetworkManager description, thanks Mathieu for pointing out.

As a followup action to my recent Talk about PyGI I now re-used my notes to provide some real wiki documentation.

On next Monday this cycle’s Ubuntu Application Developer Week classes will start.

Apport has provided built-in support for automatically identifying and marking duplicate bug reports for normal signal as well as Python crashes.

(Update: Link to Tomeu’s blog post, repost for planet.gnome.org) Last week I was in Prague to attend the GNOME/Python 2011 Hackfest for gobject-introspection, to which Tomeu Vizoso kindly invited me after I started working with PyGI some months ago.

A common source of unnoticed depwaits or uninstallability are main packages which introduce new build or binary dependencies from universe.

For a test suite I need to create a local SSL-enabled HTTPS server in my Python project.

GNOME 3.0 and Ubuntu Natty are currently undergoing a major architectural shift from GTK 2.0 to 3.0.

Since last Tuesday, packages built in natty don’t come with a Debian changelog included any more.

After 20 days of final polishing and maturing since the release candidate, the PostgreSQL team released the final 9.0 version today.

For an embedded/thin client project without GNOME, KDE, or even full XFCE I needed a small daemon to automount USB sticks.

It’s been a decade ago when I did my first steps with contributing to Free Software, about seven years when I joined Debian, and about 6 with Canonical and Ubuntu.

Dresden hat Netti und mich wieder!

PostgreSQL 9.0 with a whole lot of new features and improvements is nearing completion.

Vor etwa einem Jahr war ich auf meiner ersten Klettersteigtour auf dem Innsbrucker Klettersteig, was mich damals schon recht beeindruckt hat.

The Debian import freeze is settled, the first rush of major changes went into Maverick, and the dust now has settled a bit.

I just learned about vapigen to build a Vala .vapi interface from gobject introspection.

I just did the 1000th commit of postgresql-common, the Debian/Ubuntu PostgreSQL management utilities.

“Grüß Gott!”

Es ist mal wieder diese Zeit im Jahr – und diesmal ist es gleich die Grosse Drei-Null, die mich gestern heimsuchte!

PostgreSQL did microrelease updates three weeks ago: 8.4.3, 8.3.10, and 8.1.20 are the ones relevant for Debian/Ubuntu.

Thanks to the work of David Henningsson, we now have a proper Apport symptom for audio bugs.