I have holidays this and next week. However, I will mostly use them to do some work for uni. There's only a month or two left (depending on whether you take the exam period into account which I'll use for more research) and I haven't really done that much. However, the situation is getting better. I've been working on a script which will allow me to get the status of a bug report in the Debian Bug Tracking System (BTS) on a specific date. This tool will allow me to analyze how bugs change over time. I'm glad cjwatson answered some of my questions on how the BTS works.
On Thursday, I went to SGI Melbourne to meet Nathan Scott (a Debian developer whose Application Manager I was a few years ago) and give a talk on Debian. When I met Ken McDonell at AUUG 2003 in Sydney, I asked him about Nathan and then got an email a few weeks later asking me if I'd like to visit SGI (or sgi or whatever the spelling is these days). This was a rather nice afternoon. The engineering folks who came to the presentation asked quite a few good questions at the end, and Nathan was really nice. They also gave me some RAM for the Debian MIPS autobuilder. Unfortunately, Keith Owens wasn't in on that day. I really wanted to meet him (and convert him to Debian).
Due to this new virus/worm which sends 150KB attachments, I had real problems with my email in the last few days. I started receiving more than 200MB compressed mail a day which is a bit of a problem considering I only have a quota of 200MB a week. Unfortunately, my UUCP feed currently doesn't filter viruses. After a few days I finally got annoyed enough to look for a new temporary mail provider. Fortunately, I found a Debian developer willing to host my mail and filter it for a while. We setup UUCP together, and the situation is now much better as the DNS switches over to the new MX.