Mandriva Testcases
Well, after some discussion on cooker and, quite frankly, needing a resource myself to speed up security update testing (particularly looking for regressions), we’ve re-implemented “Testzilla”. Sorta....
View ArticleBon Voyage, Mandriva!
Well, I received some horrid news today. As of December 31st, my contract with Mandriva will be terminated and I will no longer be working for Mandriva. We’ve got a new CEO now, and he’s determined...
View ArticleMandriva community support
The Mandriva community is small, yes, but tight-knit. This can be evidenced by the comments in my previous blog entry and the many emails I received privately, and the many chats initiated on IRC. It...
View Articleurpmi tricks
Some lesser-known urpmi tricks I’ve had to figure out today. The situation is that the machine that had my mirrored files has been moved somewhere else in order to ease up on rsync being an absolute...
View ArticleDo we matter?
A good friend of mine has over the last little while been feeding me some really great books that have made me re-evaluate a lot of things. The first book is “PresentationZen” (ISBN: 978-0-321-52565-9)...
View ArticleSad metrics on community decline
I’ve been saying it for a while, but never really put hard evidence to it. Our community has declined and by the numbers I’ll produce, I’m going to say it declined a lot. I just wrote a quick shell...
View ArticleMandriva update statistics
Some statistics, before I go on holidays until the end of the year. Looking at bugfix updates, we’ve seen a steady increase since I’ve kept track (going back to 1999, although I think in 1999 it was...
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Leaving Mandriva… again
Well, that cat is out of the bag now (finally). As noted here: http://blog.mandriva.com/2009/01/23/goodbye-vincent-welcome-back-oden/ I am leaving Mandriva after almost 9 years. And I quote: After...
View ArticleNever a dull moment with Mandriva…
Well, today is my last day and so without much fanfare I say “adieu” to Mandriva. As the title indicates, never a dull moment. You get spoiled with new stuff, then have to go back and re-setup old...
View Articlersec, msec, sectool.. hmmm… I smell opportunities
So I was approached by Eugeni, one of my former fellows at Mandriva, today about some collaboration in regards to Mandriva’s msec and my way-back-when fork for Annvix, rsec. He wrote a blog post about...
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