Jelmer Vernooij

Daily builds As of a month ago there are Ubuntu archives with fresh packages of Samba 4 and OpenChange, built on a daily basis day from the latest upstream revision.

Both Samba 3 and Samba 4 are now using the “subunit” protocol inside their testsuite (aka “make test”). subunit is a streaming protocol used to report test results that is aimed at being simple to generate and parse as well as being human readable.

For about 6 months now I’ve been working for Canonical on the Soyuz component of Launchpad.

As I have done in previous years, I am again participating in the Google Summer of Code as mentor for the Samba project.

Seeing this makes me very happy.

Yesterday I started writing up a quick review of my new phone/tablet, a Nokia N900.

While searching for something else I happened to come across one of my first posts to the ntdom list in November 2000.

I went to Jonathan Corbet’s yearly update of the status of the Linux kernel.

On Tuesday we had our “Launchpad” mini-conf, which featured talks from Launchpad developers and users alike.

Linux.Conf.Au has a reputation for being one of the best FLOSS conferences in the world, and it more than lived up to my high expectations.

At the moment I am returning home after three very productive and awesome weeks in Wellington, Sydney and Strasbourg.

Roughly a week ago I joined Julian, Muharem and Michael, working on the Soyuz component of Launchpad.

These past few days in the US were a bit of a rollercoaster.

After over 7 years of working on it off and on, I’m looking for somebody to help maintain (and eventually take over) CtrlProxy.

For this years (the fifth?)

So far I’m very much enjoying my first DebCamp / DebConf.

I’m looking forward to going to my first DebCamp/DebConf.

I’ll be giving a talk at the next NLLGG meeting about the Franky project.

Last week most of the Samba team met again for our annual conference in Göttingen.

After spending a little bit more than three years in the Debian New Maintainers queue, I have finally become a Debian Developer.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 % bzr branch deb:line6-usb-source debian Retrieving Vcs locating from line6-usb-source Debian version 0.7.4-1 Branched 354 revision(s). % bzr merge-upstream https://line6linux.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroo…

While a few of us have been working very hard on Samba 4 to allow it to rock your socks off as an Active Directory Domain Controller, some of the other Samba developers have been working just as hard on improving the existing Samba 3 codebase and adding f…

Oxegen was a bit expensive but awesome.

I’ve joined the microblogging hype; I’ll be giving status updates on my coffee drinking habits and other uninteresting facts at http://identi.ca/jelmer.

Ever since bzr-svn started supporting “true push”, people have been complaining about the extra file properties it sets.

bzr-svn has always been using the standard Python bindings that were provided with Subversion itself.

I was happy to see that John Carr has set up a Bazaar Mirror of all projects in GNOME Subversion, all created using bzr-svn.

My relationship with git is still one of love and hate.

It’s been a busy two weeks.

This slightly evil hack to bzr-svn allows using bzr-builddeb as a drop-in replacement for svn-buildpackage, making it recognize the “mergeWithUpstream” property svn-buildpackage uses.

The London Bazaar sprint is over again for this year.

Srini writes that a preview of the Evolution OpenChange plugin has just been published.

Less than 150 characters in Python, while the original implementation in C requires more than 2000 characters 1 2 3 4 5 6 import tdb, sys db = tdb.Tdb(sys.argv[1]) for (k, v) in db.iteritems(): print "{\nkey(%d) = %r\ndata(%d) = %r\n}\n" % (len(k), k,

As some may have noticed, a large portion of my Samba 4 work during the last few months has been focussed on adding Python bindings for our various public libraries and the refactoring necessary to make it possible to add Python bindings.

One of the main portability problems across different POSIX implementations is the way shared and static libs should be built.

I’ve had a lot of time to practice my French skills this weekend while visiting Epitech and meeting up with Julien, Ali, Dan and the other OpenChange folks in Paris.

As of today, I’m officially a member of the OpenChange development team.

This is something that’s been lingering in the back of my head for the last year or so.

Now that the European court has decided SerNet has asked Microsoft to publish specifications on SMB/CIFS.

Last week was the annual Samba get-together in the US.

Recently I’ve started using GnuCash for my personal finances.

The next major release of bzr-svn, 0.4, has now been released.

Just got back to the hotel after LUG Radio Live and the afterparty event.

Ohloh is a nice web 2.0 site that contains stats on various Free Software projects.

Linux Weekly News had a good interview with Julien Kerihuel, lead developer of OpenChange, two weeks ago.

One of the things that I’ve always missed in DVCS is the ability to refuse commits in a branch that’s shared by multiple people based on a test suite run.

I’m currently doing a bit of sightseeing in London, after attending the Bazaar sprint at the Canonical office.

Like most of the Samba team, I attended SambaXP in Goettingen again last week.

Great Britain appears to be the place to be this summer; a lot of the annual conferences are held in various cities around the UK this year: DebConf (Edinborough, 17-23 June), GUADEC (Birmingham, 15-21 July), Akademy (Glasgow, 30 June-7 July) and last but…

John Goerzen has been evaluating various version control systems and his blogs posts on the subject have been interesting.