Emilio Pozuelo Monfort's blog

RCBW #1 – Me too!

Emilio Pozuelo Monfort — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:55:10 +0000

After fixing some bugs this week, I’ve noticed they’ve been one per day (on average) so I think I’m joining Stefano Zacchiroli on this RCBW thingie… let’s see if I can keep up!

These are this week’s bugs:

#561645 – gdesklets – Doesn’t work with python2.6 (thanks to Andrew Starr-Bochicchio)
#571488 – gedit – FTBFS with Python 2.6 as default
#571517 – totem – FTBFS with Python 2.6 as default
#571510 – rhythmbox – FTBFS with Python 2.6 as default
#533836 – spe – FTBFS with Python 2.6 as default
#569378 – gnet – FTBFS
#551215 – gtkmm-documentation – FTBFS

I’ve also sponsored gnome-dvb-daemon for Sebastian Reichel, which fixes two more RC bugs:

#566949 – gnome-dvb-daemon – FTBFS with Python 2.6 as default
#569480 – gnome-dvb-daemon – FTBFS

It’s interesting to note that all of the above bugs except for the spe one are from pkg-gnome packages. We still have a few more, although they are the hard ones so it’s not gonna be that easy for the next week…

Boycott Novell

Emilio Pozuelo Monfort — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:34:05 +0000

My last post about becoming a Debian Developer has, to my surprise, been linked from boycottnovell.com. I wonder why it would be interesting in such a page. My guess is that it’s been included there because I mentioned “Josselin Mouette”, who has been flamed before in that page. Maybe they automatically filter several planets, and this is one of the patterns. If this is true, I think I’ll start writing Josselin Mouette, Mirco Bauer and Jo Shields somewhere in every post I write from now on (maybe hidden in a comment or in the alternate text of an image, if that works) to get my posts linked from there. It would be a funny way to publicize my blog

New Debian developer Emilio Pozuelo Monfort

Emilio Pozuelo Monfort — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:45:38 +0000

I’ve been waiting for a mail with a subject like the one in the title for some time already, and it’s finally arrived at my inbox this morning!

This means I’m a DD now, and will soon start to break^Wupload things into the archive.

Big thanks to all the people that have helped and guided me since I came to Debian, including (but not limiting to) Piotr Ożarowski, Loïc Minier, Josselin Mouette and Sebastian Dröge! I also want to thank all the people involved in the NM process, including my application manager Patrick Schoenfeld.

I started in the NM queue on November 1st of last year, so overall it’s taken almost 10 months. Of them, about 1.5 were spent waiting for an AM to be assigned to me, and about 3.5 waiting for the FD and the DAM. There seems to be some room for improvement here. Let’s see what we can do.

By the way I’m not the only one celebrating. Luca has also become a DD, congrats!

PS: I turned 21 this Sunday, so this has been a nice birthday gift!

I recommend to accept Emilio as a Debian Developer.

Emilio Pozuelo Monfort — Wed, 06 May 2009 16:19:14 +0000

Woo!

Working on Liferea

Emilio Pozuelo Monfort — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:18:01 +0000

Since this January, I’ve been doing upstream work for Liferea. This is a great oportunity to learn C and to contribute more to an upstream project! And the atmosphere around Liferea is great. Today I’ve published my first post in the Liferea blog. If you are a Liferea user, you may want to subscribe to it!

There is a lot of work going on in Liferea. We are working hard to release 1.6 (which will use WebKit as the rendering backend) without any known regressions. Most of the performance work will likely go into the next series though, but 1.6 shouldn’t be any worse than 1.4.

If you would like to contribute, don’t be shy and join #liferea on Freenode! We have some blockers for 1.6 and some other things to do, and we will appreciate any contributions. Testing is also appreciated. We are mostly interested in the unstable series, so if you find a bug in the latest unstable release or in trunk, file a bug report!

Collaborative maintenance

Emilio Pozuelo Monfort — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 14:43:35 +0000

The Debian Python Modules Team is discussing which DVCS to switch to from SVN. Ondrej Certik asked how to generate a list of commiters to the team’s repository, so I looked at it and got this:

emilio@saturno:~/deb/python-modules$ svn log | egrep "^r[0-9]+ " | cut -f2 -d'|' | sed 's/-guest//' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n -r 865 piotr 609 morph 598 kov 532 bzed 388 pox 302 arnau 253 certik 216 shlomme 212 malex 175 hertzog 140 nslater 130 kobold 123 nijel 121 kitterma 106 bernat 99 kibi 87 varun 83 stratus 81 nobse 81 netzwurm 78 azatoth 76 mca 73 dottedmag 70 jluebbe 68 zack 68 cgalisteo 61 speijnik 61 odd_bloke 60 rganesan 55 kumanna 52 werner 50 haas 48 mejo 45 ucko 43 pabs 42 stew 42 luciano 41 mithrandi 40 wardi 36 gudjon 35 jandd 34 smcv 34 brettp 32 jenner 31 davidvilla 31 aurel32 30 rousseau 30 mtaylor 28 thomasbl 26 lool 25 gaspa 25 ffm 24 adn 22 jmalonzo 21 santiago 21 appaji 18 goedson 17 toadstool 17 sto 17 awen 16 mlizaur 16 akumar 15 nacho 14 smr 14 hanska 13 tviehmann 13 norsetto 13 mbaldessari 12 stone 12 sharky 11 rainct 11 fabrizio 10 lash 9 rodrigogc 9 pcc 9 miriam 9 madduck 9 ftlerror 8 pere 8 crschmidt 7 ncommander 7 myon 7 abuss 6 jwilk 6 bdrung 6 atehwa 5 kcoyner 5 catlee 5 andyp 4 vt 4 ross 4 osrevolution 4 lamby 4 baby 3 sez 3 joss 3 geole 2 rustybear 2 edmonds 2 astraw 2 ana 1 twerner 1 tincho 1 pochu 1 danderson

As it’s likely that the Python Applications Packaging Team will switch too to the same DVCS at the same time, here are the numbers for its repo:
emilio@saturno:~/deb/python-apps$ svn log | egrep "^r[0-9]+ " | cut -f2 -d'|' | sed 's/-guest//' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n -r 401 nijel 288 piotr 235 gothicx 159 pochu 76 nslater 69 kumanna 68 rainct 66 gilir 63 certik 52 vdanjean 52 bzed 46 dottedmag 41 stani 39 varun 37 kitterma 36 morph 35 odd_bloke 29 pcc 29 gudjon 28 appaji 25 thomasbl 24 arnau 20 sc 20 andyp 18 jalet 15 gerardo 14 eike 14 ana 13 dfiloni 11 tklauser 10 ryanakca 10 nxvl 10 akumar 8 sez 8 baby 6 catlee 4 osrevolution 4 cody-somerville 2 mithrandi 2 cjsmo 1 nenolod 1 ffm

Here I’m the 4th most committer

And while I was on it, I thought I could do the same for the GNOME and GStreamer teams:

emilio@saturno:~/deb/pkg-gnome$ svn log | egrep "^r[0-9]+ " | cut -f2 -d'|' | sed 's/-guest//' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n -r 5357 lool 2701 joss 1633 slomo 1164 kov 825 seb128 622 jordi 621 jdassen 574 manphiz 335 sjoerd 298 mlang 296 netsnipe 291 grm 255 ross 236 ari 203 pochu 198 ondrej 190 he 180 kilian 176 alanbach 170 ftlerror 148 nobse 112 marco 87 jak 84 samm 78 rfrancoise 75 oysteigi 73 jsogo 65 svena 65 otavio 55 duck 54 jcurbo 53 zorglub 53 rtp 49 wasabi 49 giskard 42 tagoh 42 kartikm 40 gpastore 34 brad 32 robtaylor 31 xaiki 30 stratus 30 daf 26 johannes 24 sander-m 21 kk 19 bubulle 16 arnau 15 dodji 12 mbanck 11 ruoso 11 fpeters 11 dedu 11 christine 10 cpm 7 ember 7 drew 7 debotux 6 tico 6 emil 6 bradsmith 5 robster 5 carlosliu 4 rotty 4 diegoe 3 biebl 2 thibaut 2 ejad 1 naoliv 1 huats 1 gilir

Conclusions:
- Why do I have the full python-modules and pkg-gstreamer trees, if I have just one commit to DPMT, and don’t even have commit access to the GStreamer team?
- If you don’t want to seem like you have done less commits than you have actually done, don’t change your alioth name when you become a DD (hint: pox-guest and piotr in python-modules are the same person)
- If the switch to a new VCS was based on a vote where you have one vote per commit, the top 3 commiters in pkg-gnome could win the vote if they chosed the same! For python-apps it’s the 4 top commiters, and the 7 ones for python-modules. pkg-gstreamer is a bit special

Hello Planet Debian!

Emilio Pozuelo Monfort — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 12:43:28 +0000

Hello Debian fans! I’m Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (aka pochu), a Debian contributor coming from Ubuntu (where I’m a MOTU), and hopefully a DD in the near future, as I’m in NM. Sandro Tosi has added me to Planet Debian, so here I am! I’ll be posting from time to time (don’t expect me to flood your feed reader, I’m more of a casual writter) with Debian-related topics.

For those of you who don’t know me, I’m an Spanish guy contributing mostly to the GNOME packages and some Python applications. But if something breaks in your desktop, don’t blame me, but my sponsor!

Freenode

Emilio Pozuelo Monfort — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 00:09:38 +0000

Today’s my birthday on Freenode

01:06 [notice(NickServ!NickServ@services.)] Information on pochu (account pochu): 01:06 [notice(NickServ!NickServ@services.)] Registered : Dec 13 21:40:22 2006 (2 years, 0 weeks, 0 days, 02:26:05 ago) 01:06 [notice(NickServ!NickServ@services.)] Last addr : n=emilio@ubuntu/member/pochu 01:06 [notice(NickServ!NickServ@services.)] vHost : ubuntu/member/pochu 01:06 [notice(NickServ!NickServ@services.)] Last seen : now 01:06 [notice(NickServ!NickServ@services.)] Logins from: pochu 01:06 [notice(NickServ!NickServ@services.)] Nicks : pochu pochu_ 01:06 [notice(NickServ!NickServ@services.)] Email : asdf@asdf.com (hidden) 01:06 [notice(NickServ!NickServ@services.)] Flags : HideMail 01:06 [notice(NickServ!NickServ@services.)] *** End of Info ***

New Maintainer

Emilio Pozuelo Monfort — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:15:15 +0000

About one year and a half after my first package was uploaded to Debian, I decided to apply to become a Debian Developer last month. It didn’t happen inmediately because in order to apply you are asked whether you have read the foundation documents, the policy, the developers reference… and I didn’t want to cheat! So I took the time to read all of them, and then applied on November 1st!

Loïc Minier advocated me (thanks!) and now I’m waiting to be asigned an AM. I hope not to loose interest in the meantime

Hardy Heron t-shirts

Emilio Pozuelo Monfort — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:21:29 +0000

Ralph Janke points out that Thomas David has created a very nice image of a lot of the Hardy Heron contributors.

As the Hardy Heron t-shirts are already out of stock, could we get a new design (t-shirts and/or posters) with Thomas’ image, possibly with a discount for the people mentioned in the image?