NM, DPL, crypto, bio

I've been fairly productive during the last few days. I read a number of New Maintainer reports and made various changes to the NM web pages. I started with some improvements regarding usability and clarity, but while I was working on it I noticed lots of code duplication in existing code which I then promptly got rid of. Over the last few days, I also worked on a number of DPL related TODO items. Both my personal and my DPL mailbox seem fairly sane right now.

I also had a chance to review the patch again which Wesley Terpstra submitted against initrd-tools. The patch adds support for encrypted root filesystems using dm-crypt. Since I'm interested in this functionality, I reviewed and tested the patch a few weeks ago. Yesterday, I finally got around to testing it once more and applied it in SVN. I intend to use encrypted filesystems on all my important machines so it's good to have crypto root working now with initrd.

Finally, I updated the biography on my homepage. (Nah, I'm not bored; it really needed an update.)