Monthly Archive for June, 2009
As pleasures go, it is a strange yet somewhat refined one to see a project one has started pick up speed. My fellow translators at the Greek documentation team of FreeBSD have been busy lately, and the result of our collective work is a fairly large number of commits to the “doc-el” repository.
There are now at least four translators actively working on a chapter of their own: Manolis Kiagias, Vaggelis Typaldos, Kyriakos Kentrotis and me. Changesets flow between our repository clones almost every day, and I often find myself pulling patches from two or three places at the same time.
This morning I picked up patches from both Kyriakos and Manolis. Manolis had already integrated with Vaggelis, so pulling from him I also got the translations of Vaggelis. In the meantime, my nightly cron job had finished importing a new snapshot from the official CVS tree, so today’s history graph looks scary:
The “surface complexity” of a change history like this may seem scary, but to me it is nothing of the sort. It is, in fact, quite the opposite: something to be proud and happy about, because it shows a lively team, working steadily towards our common goal—a fully translated doc/ tree with a translated, accessible version of the FreeBSD Handbook for Greek users.
It really makes me very happy to see an effort started several years ago gain momentum. My own personal commits are far less than those of the other translators now, and I often find myself in the role of a “patch integrator” instead of actively translating new text. But this is ok, because now we have more people working on the translations so we still get many improvements every day :-)
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Thanks to the work of Romain Tartiere, the FreeBSD ports of mono have just been updated to the latest stable version (2.4). I expect a few more C# ports to appear soonish! hint gnome-do hint
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The following is from a report on 60 Minutes II back in October of 2002. NITV is a California based Iranian-American TV station carried internationally via satellite with viewership in Iran.
And the mullahs really couldn’t take what NITV did on Sept. 11. Hours after the attacks, Zia [Ataby] took to the air with a message for Iranian youth: “To show your feeling and share your feelings with American people, come to the Mossani square in Tehran and bring your candle.�
They brought their candles and their voices, shouting, �Death to terrorists.� Six thousand demonstrators were called to the streets of Tehran by Zia Atabay in North Hollywood, the only show of support for America in the Islamic world.
Note: I’ve tried searching for video of the orignal report but cannot find it. If anyone can help me out with that it would be pretty sweet. Thanks.
Update: Only article I was able to find on the event filed when it occured.
Looking at the search terms that people used to reach this weblog, I noticed that one of the most popular posts of all time is the “Contributing to FreeBSD” post of Feb 2009.
This is fantastic! I didn’t realize readers of this weblog would like the particular post so much, but I am extremely pleased you did!
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At the beginning of this year I was asked by the BSD Magazine people to write an article. I asked what the idea was and I was told that I could emphasize on security, or the installation of FreeBSD and things like that. But then in a way to that everyone can understand it. Also I knew that I was going to move out of the house within limited time, so I agreed writing it if I could have some help.
Jeremy Reed, Michael Lucas and Murray Stokely helped where possible and it resulted in a very nice article. The issue should be out soon, so you are invited to order the issue of http://www.bsdmag.org and read the article I wrote. It goes about installing FreeBSD 7.1 (yeah it applies to 7.2 as well for whats it worth 
). So stay tuned!
20090612: In addition you can download/order it from here: http://www.freebsdmall.com/cgi-bin/fm/bsdmag.05?id=HtzwqhCU&mv_pc=105.
If you read it, I am ofcourse interested in seeing what you think about it, so do not hesitate to let me know!
Ed Schouten started working on a FreeBSD – clang project. He did this by importing clang into a project repository and making sure that a ‘make buildkernel’ succeeds. (If I followed correctly). I believe this is one of the steps that he will be taking to get the LLVM compiler suitable for FreeBSD, and perhaps eventually replacing the GNU licensed gcc compiler. That (like his TTY work) would be one hell of a job! Please poke ed@FreeBSD.org if you are interested in helping!
The FreeBSD 8.0 code slush had been announced. This means that large projects are no longer allowed to do “drive by commits” to the head branch, but that there is an organisation behind it that checks everything and makes sure there are enough people to cover the project and make sure it’s in the best possible shape before the release. The release will take a little to get going, but the process had been started. From here on the team will have to manouver through a pipe that keeps getting smaller and smaller. If your favorite new feature is not in yet, don’t hold your breath because this might mean that it will take a little longer to get it in a first -RELEASE installation. Stay tuned!
glarkin@ designate June 15th as the inaugural International FreeBSD Adopt-A-Port Day for 2009 and I think it's a good idea. Then, I encourage you to read his post about it.
Portmgr is happy to announce that two new members will join the team.
Martin Wilke has been one of our most active committers since receiving his commit bit today 3 years ago. He has been working in a number of subgroups including python, ports-security and the KDE team.
Ion-Mihai Tetcu has been interested in regression testing and qualitiy assurance, creating QAT automated tinderbox testing of all port commits on a per-commit basis, and adding on-the-fly feedback to the snapshot builds from the pointyhat package cluster.
Unfortunately, we will also be saying goodbye to Kirill Ponomarew, who hasn’t had much time to spend on FreeBSD and will be stepping down from portmgr.
We thank Kirill for all his contributions in the past and wish Martin and Ion-Mihai the best of luck with the new tasks bestowed upon them.
If you haven’t read it yet, Banshee 1.5.0 was released yesterday. I’ve just updated the port. I had to drop my .config/banshee-1 directory and start over but that was only a minor issue since my library was rather small. Hopefully this was just a local problem.
Check out this announcement for more details about the new features.
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Interview with Kris Moore at BSDCan2009.
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