Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

Up extremely early, J. off to work, new washing machine arrived, old one left. Those blokes lift and carry 30 home's machines around per day, impressive backs.
Nice to see James' nautilus-rpm-properties page, good stuff.
Encouraging to see that we're doing something right wrt. OO.o; Kevin Hendricks - famous non Sun OO.o hacker:

Tinderbox is probably the biggest help I have seen yet. Like most volunteer developers I do my builds on on one machine only (in my case PPC Linux) and would love to see how my code changes impact the main platforms without waiting/hoping others will have the time and volunteer to do the rebuild.

Using the tinderbox for Solaris via ooo.ximian.com I have been able to remotely diagnose and come up with fixes for two configure nitpicks that caused problems and now even a possible whitespace change in a patch that I never would have been able to know about or diagnose.
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It is simply the tool I have been waiting for.

That makes it all worthwhile. We need more build volenteers though to loop build a vast source tree; people with a few GIPS/GB free for long term loop OO.o building should mail me.
Got a little more perl in, the more I use it - the more I like it; if only I could use structured data sensibly. Wrote up the process of setting up a tinderbox for OO.o.
Discovered an amusing security flaw in OO.o while reading the code, no good process for dealing with those it seems. Server locked up in swap-hell (or some other place), at last - a chance to removed the suspicious SCSI card. Installed the washing machine while the disk checked.
Re-educated RH7.3 about the missing disk, rather an unfriendly message for 'un-mountable partition in fstab'.
J. home, pizza for dinner, out to a rehearsal for an inter-church meeting on Saturday; back, bed.

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Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

2003-01-13: Monday