Introduction to bts-link slides

bts-link is a very useful tool which helps keep track of bug status changes when a Debian bug has been marked as linked to another bug in an other (upstream) bugtracker.

I’ve prepared some slides of introduction for our partners in Helios to introduce them to that tool :

Introduction to bts-link

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These slides can also be found on the helios site (ODP source).

Also, I’ve started contributing to bts-link in the frame of our work on Helios, and I’m glad my contributions have been integrated, although learning git in the way was kind of a pain 😉

More details about bts-link at : http://bts-link.alioth.debian.org/

Is GForge really GForge ? clarification needed

Gforge 4.5 is the FLOSS version of GForge, that most of us can download, install, for instance as Debian packages.

But for some users looking for “the” latest, most up-to-date GForge, there’s a risk to go test (and buy) a non-free version of GForge AS, the “proprietary” version made by the main initial author of GForge, Tim Perdue (through his company GForge Group). While having a new product developed by a company which contributed to the liberation of GForge is not necessarily bad, the problem is that this confusion hinders the momentum for contributions to the free code base.

There seem to be some movement in the GForge community these days, towards more dynamics on the development of this leading FLOSS project, which hosts so many interesting libre projects.

Update 2009/01/25 :Expect some announcement in the forthcoming days on this front. Roland Mas has just announced what I was more or less announcing in this teaser : FusionForge has forked been announced.

foswiki-ldapcontrib packaging started to “replace” twiki-ldapcontrib

Hoping that foswiki will be packaged for Debian soon, I’ve prepared a new package for the LdapContrib Foswiki’s extension, reusing what I had done for the twiki-ldapcontrib package.

This should allow integration of Foswiki on Debian systems using LDAP-stored users and groups.

More details about the package in http://picoforge.int-evry.fr/projects/twldapdeb/.

Foswiki 1.0 release and Debian packaging on its way

Cool, Foswiki is about to be officially released today. Foswiki is the result from the TWiki community fork.

Hopefully, the Debian packaging will probably be useable soon, as the initial tests I’ve done seem to indicate that it’s gonna work.

This should help replace the use of TWiki by foswiki, since TWiki is no longer in lenny. Maybe we’ll be able to keep upgrading picoforge with our Debian packages preference, then.