Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

Up rather early - the iron routine of school is back again; to work. Waded through mail. Bitten once again by finding my gnome-keyring totally non-functional, filed a bug - it seems systemd's over-enthusiastic cleaning up is to blame; after 10 days it appears to do the moral equivalent of rm -Rf /tmp/* destroying the gnome-keyring socket in the process. In the meantime:
```
sudo systemctl disable systemd-tmpfiles-clean.timer
sudo systemctl stop systemd-tmpfiles-clean.timer
```
No doubt just a mis-configuration that can be cleaned up; I wonder if it trashes ORBit2's sockets too - though perhaps it ignores sockets.
Chat with Frederic, caught up with Norbert & others on IRC; started digging through the mail backlog with vigour. Read the git commit logs over Christmas - lots of nice work and fixing. Lunch.
Noticed a new and rather sexy General Polygon Clipper library with the boost license. That looks lovely for repsnapper's slicing code; and Martin "Hurzl" Dieringer already uses it, neat - roll on faster, better slicing.
Prodded the bug lists variously; set some fresh from-clean builds going.
Saw that Luis (good to his word) and Gerv finally got the MPLv2 out - which is lovely. That gives us an AL2 compatible (and more importantly) GPL* compatible weak-copy-left license; more in the FAQ. A crisp read too. Hopefully there is no longer a need for CDDLs in today's world.
Dave & Emily over, put babes to bed, dinner, sat around and talked by the fire. Finished the spreadsheet and filed tax return.

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Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

2012-01-04: Wednesday