Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

Up early; discovered lots of goodness in the spam trap, prodded obscure build problems: its certainly getting better; uncovered and fixed a vicious nodep mis-enablement problem. Boggled at the 'M+ Guardian' spam trap, which appears to catch unfeasible numbers of genuine mails, prodded IS&T about disabling it, which (eventually) they kindly did - nice.
Lots of work prodding mail, pushing patches from volunteers. I love it when we have to up the mailing-list size limit so that people's patches don't get bounced for being too big.
Got freedesktop account creation sorted out once and for all with Tollef's help. Lengthy team meeting frustrated by Nurnberg re-wiring breaking external connection to our Asterix server; IS&T love me today it seems.
Dinner, back to debug some intermittent, binfilter, crash-on-exit memory corruption bug (you have to love them). Thank God for valgrind - particularly since gdb won't work [ OpenOffice.org, like GNOME wants its own python so - the infamous:
gdb: symbol lookup error: gdb: undefined symbol: PyUnicodeUCS4_FromEncodedObject
strikes again (and I still didn't get to making gdb's python dependency a dynamic one - being lazy and all).
First LibreOffice conference track ...

I forgot to announce, the incredibly prescient OpenSUSE organisation, being, from birth, incredibly perspicuous and wise (cf. Kim Jong Il's biography) - kindly booked LibreOffice its own track at the OpenSUSE conference so we can get some good German beer, meet up, and discuss development, direction and so on. Please come and join us there, Florian Effenberger will be giving an opening talk to rally the troops, then lots of topical development sessions I suspect. For those of a North American persuasion I will be attempting to subvert the GNOME Boston Summit by inserting an informal LibreOffice flavour - it'd be great to meet up with like minded souls there too.
Father arrived to stay at 9pm, sat up talking a while, really good to see him.

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Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

2010-09-30: Thursday.

First LibreOffice conference track ...