Thomas Abthorpe, FreeBSD Committer

June 23, 2009

Update proposed ports category, interantionalization

Filed under: FreeBSD — Tags: , — tabthorpe @ 4:26 pm

A brief in discussion on the freebsd-ports thread convinced me to change my proposal from i18n to internationalization, http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2009-June/055475.html

I will await further potential feedback, Friday will mark one week since I made the original post. At that time, I will get my act together and take my proposal to portmgr@.

Stay tuned.

June 18, 2009

Proposed ports category, i18n

Filed under: FreeBSD — Tags: , — tabthorpe @ 4:27 pm

Just because life is not complicated enough, I opened up a can of worms by proposing a new ports category for the internationalisation/localisation effort.

It is my hopes to move all the *i18n* and *l10n* ports out of the misc category to their new home.

Please, please, please, if you have an opinion, pro or con to this proposal, check out my original post, http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2009-June/055412.html
and reply to it via the ports@ mailing list.

June 16, 2009

KDE4 testing is ongoing for FreeBSD

Filed under: FreeBSD, KDE — Tags: , , , , — tabthorpe @ 2:43 pm

Just to reiterate a posting by miwi,http://miwi.bsdcrew.de/2009/06/fresh-blood-for-kde-freebsd-team/, we have added two more members to the FreeBSD KDE team, newly minted Ports Committer Kris Moore of PCBSD, and Dima “Red Fox” Panov.

We have been working diligently to keep to the KDE beta schedule. The work we do is being stored in a repository, http://websvn.pcbsd.org, for inclusion to the FreeBSD Ports tree.

If you are interested in testing, you can read more at http://freebsd.kde.org

June 14, 2009

Round two for citrix_xenapp

Filed under: FreeBSD — Tags: , , — tabthorpe @ 6:02 am

I finally got around the localisation issue for the German and Japanese upates and committed them to the ports tree.

Please use them, and enjoy!

P.S. Pav, officially not abandoned now :-D

June 12, 2009

Citrix Xen App for FreeBSD

Filed under: FreeBSD — Tags: , , — tabthorpe @ 10:59 pm

I finally managed to get Citrix 11 committed to the repository as net/citrix_xenapp. The Citrix 10 client will be left as net/citrix_ica for a little while yet.

Please be aware that the Xen App client requires  linux-f8 emulation to install and run. Please check out my wiki page for further instructions.

I still need to do some localisation testing for the German and Japanese versions.

Stay tuned…

P.S. Pav the repocopies still aren’t abandoned :)

May 28, 2009

New Ports committer, Alexander Logvinov, avl@

Filed under: FreeBSD — Tags: , , , , , — tabthorpe @ 9:22 pm

Short story long, I was privileged to meet Greg Larkin, glarkin@, at BSDCan 2009. We were chatting during lunch time one day and he says something like, “I really should mentor somebody”. I told him I would take him up on the offer in the near future.

That moment arrived, to co-mentor avl@.

Congratulations Alexander, may your pointyhats be elusive :)

May 20, 2009

dhn flying solo

Filed under: FreeBSD — Tags: , , , , — tabthorpe @ 5:01 am

Dennis Herrmann worked very hard since receving his port commit bit, and today miwi and I set him free.

Good luck Dennis, and remember, I like chocolate chip cookies :-)

May 8, 2009

Day 2 at BSDcan

Filed under: FreeBSD — Tags: , — tabthorpe @ 2:12 am

My brain hurts.

I sat in sessions today, and hung on the speaker’s every word, trying to cram in as much as I possibly could.

Epic fail. SEGFAULT. Core dumped, brain fried.

May 6, 2009

‘Twas the night before BSDcan

Filed under: FreeBSD — Tags: , , — tabthorpe @ 3:55 am

I will be in Ottawa in time for lunch on day one of the DevSummit. I will attempt to blog some of of the events. Stay tuned :)

April 16, 2009

New ports committer, Gabor Pali

Filed under: FreeBSD — Tags: , , , , — tabthorpe @ 3:31 am

Just in time for the 7.2 freeze, I got word from portmgr@ that I could mentor Gabo Pali, pgj@ in ports, with gabor@ as co-mentor.

I first hooked up with pgj@ when I submitted a PR to add a light bulb joke in the FreeBSD FAQ. Since that time, pgj@ wanted to wade into the ports world by helping out with Haskell. I have been reviewing his work since the new year, and decided to make it legit early in April.

Enjoy the enhanced commit privs, Gabor, and please don’t break the INDEX!

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