Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

Up early; missed the train due to an omitted phone; slightly late - hacked on bootstrapping calc from a unit-test on the train. Great presentation from Gregor on the build-bots, updated the ESC dashboard.
Lunch, more discussion of what needs fixing, and some added impetus with deadlines. Back on the train which sadly broke before it got there. Lift with Thorsten back to Buxtehude, then a space for "real work"(TM). Amused by Federico's baby pictures. I guess the most exciting development from the ESC meeting was Heiner's commitment to move OO.o fast to svn, and within a year to a DSCM - git / mercurial / bzr (to be decided later).
Lots of mail. Curious to read champion Ben Rockwood's Sun Confirms Inflexability & Community Disregard post; I don't know Ben, or the facts of the matter, and apparently he's not a hacker, and clearly I care not at all for what 'OpenSolaris' stands for; but caveat's aside, some of his blog reads to the OO.o experience:
Sun is making decisions "for" the community with no regard to the membership or Governing Board ... Sun is holding all the keys and while I trust 99% of the Sun employees involved in the community, the fact remains that it would seem that none of them had a hand in this decision ... OpenSolaris as it was conceived by the community is a sham. ... we have open source but we don't have open development. Sun has done an admirable job with releasing code, but Sun's track history in the arena of open development efforts with the free software community has been abysmal ... the MySQL model, which I refer to as "glass house development", that is, you can look in at whats going on but you're not part of the action.
Back to unit test hackerage; got Thorsten setup with MSDN, ordered pizza.

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Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

2008-02-19: Tuesday