It's almost mid October. I wonder where the time has gone. The semester is drawing to an end and I realize that I've spent much more time on Debian than on uni. I think I basically treat Debian as a full-time job and uni as a part-time job. I suppose that explains why I'm busy all the time. ;-)
There were some interesting events connected to Debian recently. A few days ago, I got up and found a nice message in my DPL mail folder informing me that Debian has won the Linux Journal Readers' Choice Award as the favourite distribution. I also managed to get James to announce how New Maintainer rejections would happen and to actually get some done. It was really time this happened. I also chased more inactive maintainers. It's amazing (and depressing) how many inactive developers there are in Debian. However, I'm actually more annoyed by those developers who are basically inactive but don't think they are. Unfortunately, they are not up to date with what's going on at all and don't produce any good work at all. At the same time, they don't want to give their packages away because "I'll find time to fix it this weekend" (sure…). The problem is that I have heard this from so many people and then seen the (non-existing) results that I know it will never happen - but they really think they'll find the time. I've also spent a fair amount of time helping some folks in Italy prepare a proposal to get funding from the EU for a project involving mobile Linux and Debian.
I've also done some work for uni. I've finally managed to compile a
listing of 40 successful and 40 unsuccessful random projects from
SourceForge. This wasn't as easy as it may appear because I had to make
sure that the two groups don't differ in lines out code, age and category
(development status). Now my other other team members can analyze those
projects. We're doing a blind study so I won't tell them which projects
are successful and which are not.
Today it's actually sunny and pretty warm. Unfortunately, this is the exception rather than the norm. The weather has generally not been very nice in the last few weeks, and I've been told by a local that it is likely to stay like that for the next couple of weeks. The photo shows the view from my window.