The Brain Drain
Day one of the Fedora Activity Day is wrapping up. We're talking about where to get food and decompress a bit.Today has been a major brain drain. We did brain storming on all the things that are wrong...
View ArticleFedora Activity Day - Fedora Development Cycle wrap up
We've finished up the FAD today. The net result of today's effort is a series of proposals to fix some issues and ultimately make life easier for maintainers and consumers. You can see the announcement...
View ArticleFedora Development 3.0
When Fedora first started, there was Fedora Core, done by Red Hat, and Fedora Extras, done by the entire community (including Red Hat people). Core was special, and treated different. Core was defined...
View ArticleNew phone number, new company
After our 2~ year trial with T-Mobile, we're running (not walking) back to AT&T. We are also have new numbers since nobody around here expects a 617 area code.If you happen to have my old number...
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I'm now a flickr..er? My account is "iamjessekeating".Posted via LiveJournal.app.
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I'm now a flickr..er? My account is "iamjessekeating".Posted via LiveJournal.app.
View ArticleLinuxTag / FUDCon Berlin 2009 Flickr feed
I've created a set of photos in my flickr for LinuxTag and FUDCon Berlin 2009. You can follow it here. All the photos should be tagged with fudcon as well.
View ArticleFUDCon Berlin 2009 Day 1
It's day one of FUDCon Berlin 2009. Max gave a good intro talk, working in just enough subtle Michael Jackson references to set the mood. Hackfests today, as well as pre-arranged talks in our area that...
View ArticleFUDCon Berlin slides
I pitched two barcamp sessions for this FUDCon. The first one is Fedora Development Cycle 3.0, which reviews the recent Fedora Activity Day I ran recently and explains where it is we're trying to go...
View ArticleDay 3 of FUDCon Berlin
It's day 3 here at FUDCon Berlin. Day 2 was a whirlwind of presentations, talks, conversations, greetings, and collaboration. I attended Steven's talk about using Koji at CERN which I must say was...
View ArticleGetting Fedora Schedules into google calendar
I'm a calendar junky. If it's not on my calendar (and synced to my evolution and my iphone) I likely will forget about it. That's why it was important for me to figure out how to get my google calendar...
View ArticleUsing Evolution with a hosted Google Calendar
My personal domain is hosted with google. I finally got tired of being a mail admin and fighting the hackers, spam, security patches, needy users (myself), etc... So I opted for google since it was...
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Tethering iPhone 3.0 with Linux (Fedora 11) over bluetooth
I was recently pointed to an article that described how to enable the built in tethering capability of the 3.0 iphone software. I tried it out and indeed I was able to enable the setting and tether...
View ArticleLinuxCon 2009 Trip Report
This is a first year event, partnered with a second year event, the Linux Plumbers Conference. It was in beautiful Portland, OR where the weather was just about perfect. I only wish I had followed...
View ArticleAnother 6^H 5 months, another Fedora release
Fedora 12 released today, go get it. This is the 8th Fedora release I've had the pleasure of being paid to work on in a release engineering role. It has been a long and hard trip, but with lots of...
View ArticleFUDCon Toronto 2009
I'm back in the USA, having just attended FUDCon Toronto 2009. I haven't blogged about this before due to the state of both the hotel and the campus Internet offerings.I felt that this FUDCon was...
View ArticleThe move to git
The time has come to bite the bullet and move Fedora's package source control on from CVS. CVS has done is well, and although it is a decaying source control, it handled our needs rather well for many...
View ArticleSwitching Gears
Once again we've done a Fedora release. This happens twice a year, and every time it happens I have a sudden gear shift to work through. The three months or so after a release are relatively quiet for...
View ArticleHelp Wanted!
Do you want to work on some software that will be used by every Fedora packager?Do you like hacking in python?Do you have a thing for git?Well have I got a project for you!!!The Dist Git Project is...
View ArticleEclipse, Python, and Vim
I love python. I love vim, and I'm growing to love Eclipse. Until recently I thought I could only enjoy python and vim, or python and Ecilpse, but not Eclipse and vim. At least not freely. That has...
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FUDCon Zurich day one
Like a few people I'm here in Zurich for FUDCon. This is my second European event and I'm excited!Long flight getting here only to be met with a minor migraine. I was able to sleep it off as Jarod...
View ArticleLooking for emacs folks who use git
Do you use emacs? Do you use git? Do you use the emacs git integration system? Are you willing to do some tests on an EL-5 (RHEL 5 or CentOS 5) system? Please make yourself known at this bug.
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Fedora talk at fi.muni.cz
I just finished giving a Fedora talk at Faculty of Informatics Masaryk University. That is one of the reasons why I've spent the week working here from the Brno Red Hat office.I was told to expect...
View ArticleFuture of Fedora Release Engineering
I have now been doing Fedora Release Engineering for nearly 5 years. My first task was to rebuild every Fedora Core package for a gcc change leading up to the release of Fedora Core 5 (hey look, a...
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