Be the signal

Some awesome news this morning: Robert Love - kernel hackeur known for such amazing feats as pre-emptive kernel support in Linux, and then convincing Linus to use it - will be joining Ximian to work full-time on desktop oriented kernel issues… tomorrow! Lots of ships-moving-on-the-map today.

I spent most of yesterday with the Ximians at the top of my thoughts. It is a complicated kind of grief for those of us so far away, who may have only met Ettore and Chema a handful of times: They have touched our lives so significantly, and their passing touches our friends lives so […]

Christian, don’t shoot the messenger. No one else was interested in raising the issue on list, because they knew it would be difficult. There’s basically no immediate solution other than removing the flags. In the medium term, it would be awesome to have a set of icons that are really appropriate to the localisation […]

A mailman outage on mail.gnome.org between 2003-12-03 22:40:17 EST and 2003-12-04 07:26:10 EST is now resolved. There was an errant qrunner process arsing up the locks, so while mails have been added to the queue, none were processed. A nice little stream is on its way out now. Enjoy.