I'm glad to see that Debian vote 2006-06, to reaffirm support for the Debian project leader, has passed, and that associated counter-proposals to recall the DPL have been defeated. The central issue has been Dunc Tank, a project to raise money to support certain Debian developers with the goal of getting Debian's next release, etch, out on time.
There's been more heat than light on this issue over the last few weeks in various Debian- and Linux-related venues (mailing lists to media), and I'm happy to see that we've come to a conclusive resolution and can hopefully put the issue behind us. I've been impressed with Anthony Towns's aplomb in dealing with this issue, and I'm glad that he'll be staying in the DPL seat.
We have one of the best, if not the best, Linux-based Operating Systems available. But Debian's late releases have become a laughingstock, and our users have to resort to backports and workarounds to keep running a stable release version of our software. With luck, putting extra resources into getting out a release will serve our users better and restore our reputation for delivering software in a timely fashion.
tags: debian dpl anthony towns dunc tank gr
Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do
The 2001: A Space Odyssey (film) jokes are probably a little too thick on the ground, but I'm glad to see the launch of the HAL Project at Île Sans Fil. HAL is a distribution system for getting locally-produced digital art, music and video out on a community wireless project like Île Sans Fil. Kinda puts the "community" back into "community wireless"... a great idea. The HAL Project software is of course available for download as an Open Source project, which is good news for other community wireless projects out there.
tags: ilesansfil isf hal wireless local