Why belocs-locales-data is a good thing
Many people involved in Free Software i18n know dealing with changes to locale data from glibc is a major pain. Changes take a lot of time to trickle into …
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Wasting translation energy
Sitting with mako in the auditorium, I decided I’m going to waste the little translation energy I’ve gathered in the last 3 months to translate a …
No Software Patents in Europe!
The news is running like a lightning on IRC and the net. A few minutes ago, the European Parliament voted against the Software Patents directive that so many …
Where the hell is this phone number from?!?
Forget this. My mobile phone just rang, and I see a weird, unknown and long number in the display, starting with +3585… so I pick it up at first thinking …
GNOME 2.10 transition complete!
The GNOME team has completed all the many uploads needed to bring GNOME 2.10.1 into unstable. Now, please help us find the remaining bugs before the packages …
Interview with seb128
seb128 was just interviewed in #gnome-debian. We apologize for azeem interfering. Gosh, people are rude in Germany. 17:14 <@jordim> 1) Ok, seb, tell us a …
An established tradition: no DebConf for me
I guess it’s late enough to make this official. Once again, I won’t be in DebConf5. A pair of months ago I submitted a draft outline of what could …
A fun screensaver
Last week I learned about the newest flamewar in Debian mailing lists through the #debian-release IRC channel, while some people were busy trying to tackle the …
The tricky migration of GNOME 2.10 to unstable
You already know, GNOME 2.10 has finally started to enter sid. As always, this kind of transitions tend to break installability of GNOME in unstable during a …
GTetrinet and GNOME-Mud releases
In the last few days, two of the GNOME apps I’m somewhat involved in, GTetrinet, and GNOME-Mud, have released new versions. GTetrinet probably needs …