Doug Goldstein

So after hearing weekly calls from the Gnome Herd to disband Project Gentopia, I just read a blog post from a Debian developer and was shocked to read that they have a Project Utopia, which is what Gentopia is named after. And their Gnome team (aka herd) and KDE team are working with their Utopia team on coordination and actually allowing the Utopia team to help them and working on making transitions happen properly. Unlike Gentoo where we’re constantly fought and dragged through the mud. Downright shocking… rather then fighting help and working as a well oiled and coordinated machine they’re working together. I guess this is why Debian is always rock solid and Gentoo always has that hackish feel.

http://oskuro.net/blog/freesoftware/gnome-2.12-unstable-2005-12-15-14-19

Oh and for those who are curious, I consider “Debian unstable” similar to our ~ARCH tagging. Debian unstable will actually have newer versions of some packages then our ~ARCH teams currently have. AND AND AND!!!! Here’s the shocker… Debian stable actually works! Unlike Gentoo “stable”, which doesn’t compile or work and users constantly e-mail me complaining but I’m forced to reply “Sorry, the currently marked stable version is horribly broken… I have made requests to up the stable marked version to something that will compile but the ARCH teams aren’t marking anything. And upstream laughs at any issues with the currently marked stable because there were known problems with it, hence why newer versions are released.” (this is dbus 0.23 -> 0.23.4)

Anyway, it’s random rant/complaint from me. I do however need to blog some more about relevant stuff.

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Well my blog has gotten a face lift. I went out and was looking at all sorts of themes and finally picked one I liked. It still needs to be tweaked a little bit to my liking but it’s a pretty nice theme. It’s much better then being lame and going with the default.

On the media-tv herd front, I went through and wrangled a lot of our bugs and trimmed the list to about half today. A lot of new package requests were assigned to maintainer-wanted. I know some people might be disappointed but I only joined the media-tv herd to take care of mythtv and then everyone in the herd left. I don’t have the hardware or the time to babysit all the other packages. I’ve been encouraging others to take over the packages one by one. So for those of you that want to become devs, here’s a call for you. You can pick up media-tv packages and use that as your way in.

MythTV front, well I’m preparing a release from the 0-18-fixes branch, but it appears unmaintained. There need to be a bunch of patches applied to it but haven’t been. So I’m taking the latest revision of 0-18-fixes, which is revision number 7882 and applying 5 patches to it and packing it up as 0.18.2_pre7882 and we’ll have that available in Portage shortly. There will also be a spot release of mythplugins and myththemes. They will be versions slightly differently, basically whatever their last revision # is.

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So I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, BellSouth is just plain evil. They’re a gang of legal thieves essentially. I used to even work for them as a level 2 tech support one summer.

Now they’re suggesting companies pay for “Quality of Service”. They gave an example that a VoIP provider who wanted the same quality of service as their own VoIP offerings would have to pay them money. Do they propose two Italians in nice suits come knock on the door and get a brown paperbag of money? This would essentially be extortion, there’s no other word for it. Another example they gave was if Yahoo wanted to pay them so that Yahoo would ALWAYS be faster then Google. Completely ridiculous! What would they do if Yahoo was being DoSed? Just DoS Google?

The justification that they gave that this was ok was that Google gets paid to put the highest bidders results on top of the search list. Which in fact is not true, Google gets paid for the clearly marked advertisements on the right hand side.

The article at Washington Post Article about BellSouth extortion scheme

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