Torsten Werner's blog

DebConf11: Jigsaw – Progress in Debian

Tom Marble and Guillaume Mazoyer gave a talk about „Jigsaw – Progress in Debian“ during DebConf11 in Banja Luka. Guillaume is a Google Summer of Code student mentored by Tom and Sylvestre Ledru. The project is about modularizing OpenJDK which replaces the old fashioned classpath by a modulepath that knows about versioned dependencies. It can reduce the memory footprint and the startup time for applications running in the JVM. It would be interesting to match Debian package versions to Jigsaw module versions. Debian could influence the JDK version 8 in this area.

Upstream is already building Debian packages but they do not follow the Debian policy and do not use the Debian packaging tools. Guillaume has uploaded 2 packages (jtharness, jtreg) to Debian. These packages are needed to run the upstream testsuite which ships 3484 individual tests. More than 99% of them are working in Debian. There is a GIT repository of his Jigsaw work at http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-java/jigsaw.git;a=summary.

The slides of the talk are available at http://penta.debconf.org/dc11_schedule/events/718.en.html.

Debian Conference 2011

Yes I am going to attend DebConf11.

Certified Scrum Master

I’ve passed the CSM exam of the Scrum Alliance today after having a 2 day training last week! That means that I am really agile now. The training was really good.

My Wheezy release goal: JS removal

Debian is preferring feature based releases over time based releases and that is why we currently have some discussion about release goals for our next version that has the codename Wheezy. I want to suggest the full removal of all software written by Jörg Schilling who is well known for making trouble in projects that want to redistribute his software.

Are we slaves?

We still have more than 300 new packages in Debian that needs manual checks and we have a lot of open bugs. I don’t get paid for working on dak (the Debian Archive Kit) nor do I feel a deep passion on doing such work. I am contributing to Debian because it is a great project and because contributing is my way to say ‘Thank you’ to all who made (and still make) it possible.

BUT: are we slaves that are supposed to do any stuff for other people? Yesterday someone asked for an enhancement for dak via IRC. I’ve kindly asked him: ‘do you want to send a patch?’ (words are copied from the IRC session). Instead of answering ‘no’ he sent a patch for 2 plain text files within 4 minutes after I told him the URL to dak’s git repository. I could not do it faster by myself and I’ve got many other open tasks. I’ve applied the patch and activated it on ftp-master.debian.org. But today he ranted about my rudeness and he did not even managed to quote me correctly (‘Please send a patch’).

You are uploading too fast

This is my first blog post on my new tarent blog which I am using as a replacement for blogspot.

We had 451 new source packages in the NEW queue tonight. It is nice to know that Debian is the largest free software distribution but it will take some time until we (the ftp team) have processed all those new packages as we need the check every single package.

I wanted to work on dak (the Debian archive kit) again after we have released Squeeze but I’ll give NEW processing a higher priority. My next plan for dak is generating the contents files in dak directly instead of using apt-ftparchive. Contents generation is the slowest part of apt-ftparchive and having the package contents in dak’s database is quite useful.

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