6 janvier 2012
2012
13:24 - Bouquins
À trainer à gauche à droite j'ai forcément lu quelques bilans 2011, je passe mon tour (dyslexique j'aurais écrit « je passe mon trou » et ça nous aurait fait rire un peu) mais je m'étais dit que dans mon billet sur Montréal (ses gens, ses bars, la casa del popolo) j'aurais une place pour les lectures, et ce billet, il n'arrivera pas, tant pis pour les photos, mais quand même, bilans 2011, listes de lecture, prétexte et phrase trop longue.
Capitalisme, désir et servitude, de Frédéric Lordon. Énorme. Oublié dans l'avion au retour, à nouveau acheté lors des emplettes de Noël pour en lire les dernières pages. Sous-titré « Marx et Spinoza ». Et de ce dernier, la mise en exergue de cette phrase, « Par réalité et par perfection, j'entends la même chose », qui est quand même la phrase illico recopiée lors de ma lecture de l'Éthique…
Un livre, beaucoup(?) d'autres, et après avoir lu De onze à douze je me suis motivé à enfin faire l'inventaire de ma bibliothèque (en sous-texte il y a la perspective d'un déménagement…), goodreads, quelques soirées d'encodage, bien sûr ponctuées d'écroulages de piles, mais en sortie, enfin, un tableau. Et un tas de statistiques amusantes à faire. Une autre fois.
Et pour finir dans le sous-texte, première lecture de l'année.
22 novembre 2011
C'était
2:30 - Divers
C'était ce week-end, journées du logiciel libre à Lyon, c'était le week-end dernier, Ubuntu Party à Paris, c'était il y a déjà plus d'un mois, Montréal, c'était il y a, oh, cinq mois… déjà.
C'était, calibré, rythme de six mois, Ubuntu Party à Paris; c'était, rythme d'un an, JDLL l'année dernière, et voilà donc qu'il y a maintenant plus d'un an j'étais ainsi, assis, sur les pentes d'une croix rousse, à discuter, à ne pas savoir. Entre… et …
Pour, aujourd'hui, une question en moins. Mais je ne sais quoi.
12 octobre 2011
Montreal Summit 2011
1:35 - GNOME
The date came late, and it was definitely not at the best time wrt some projets at work, but I decided to go nevertheless, and have to give my thanks to the GNOME Foundation, and the travel committee, for quickly accepting when I asked for sponsorship.
Probably because of the short notice it felt like some important teams didn't have enough representation, and while this gave ample place for some topics (building gnome!) I wish we had enough teams for a roundup of the different aspects of GNOME. On the positive side this wide cooperation is happening in the mailing list discussion on freezes, with translators, documentation team, release team and other interested parties.
Still, back to Montreal and the summit, I spent much of the first day testing and reviewing jhbuild patches, and wrapping the day with the presentation of Baserock by Lars Wirzenius. The second day was more diverse, and more intense, with (I heard) a very interesting discussion on GNOME strategy (Tiffany wrote about it in details) that happened at the same time as a jhbuild (and more) session lead by Colin, and later in the afternoon a good serie of questions asked by Xan about our (lack of a clear) developer platform.
Colin on JHBuild
And the Collabora party, of course.
Then on Monday, more patch reviews, including (at last) Bug 654872 - Delete no longer shipped files at install time but the day was short as many people had to leave early, so it ended with random hacking and bug filing, with the good luck of hitting a bug in glib-networking with Nicolas Dufresne sitting just behind.
All in all this was my first summit and it went well, it would sure benefit from some earlier planning (both dates, and sessions), but this was a nice chance to see new heads (and known heads, of course), especially as I was not in Berlin this summer.
Six mois
1:02 - Divers
Six mois, presque, depuis les derniers messages, du temps, des lieux, pas de photos, des quenelles, et pour encore quelques jours, le Québec.
Montréal, 5 octobre 2011
19 avril 2011
Rejuvenating your release team
10:21 - GNOME
Vincent is taking his release team hat off and dropped it on my head. I am a bit sad because the real blue hat has been lost, but I am very happy to be here at this time, GNOME 3 is out, people loves it.
For 3.2 we will continue to have our work driven by design, and we are making adjustments to our schedule and processes to keep on going with a global vision, there have been a few emails about feature planning on desktop-devel-list, we will expand on that soon, but for now, I wanted this post to give all my thanks to Vincent Untz (plenty of time for icecreams now), Lucas Rocha (don't forget to add ajax support to the board), and Frédéric Crozat (we will continue harassing you for live usb images), who are leaving the team, and to welcome our new members,
- Luca Ferreti, he was a team member already but Vincent gave him a trainee badge as no one was leaving at that time; he has already been helping with releases;
- Javier Jardón, he arrived on #gnome-love someday, got hooked fixing build failures and went on to lead wide goals to improve our modules, and more;
- Alejandro Piñeiro Iglesias, I met him in the build brigade, but really he is now an accessibility guy, and his expertise in the domain will be immensely valuable;
- Colin Walters, shell developer, involved with gobject introspection from the beginning, his latest feat has been to push for a standalone spidermonkey release from our friends in Mozilla.
Let's now go to 3.2, and beyond!