Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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This is my (in)activity log. You might like to visit my employer
Novell which is an amazing company, and also
Dell who in days of yore provided me with a
free laptop for Gnome development / conferences.
Also if you have the time to read this sort of stuff you could enlighten
yourself by going to Unraveling Wittgenstein's net or if
you are feeling objectionable perhaps here.
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- Up in the night with H. who (apparently) for no reason
decided to have several long strings of tearful Mummy/Daddy calling.
Eventually slept. Up late. Encouraged to adapt my previous flame of
all of Sun's (no doubt excellent) QA, to just the particular
individual, fair cop.
- Fixed
name-account.html generation, updated the hackers guide
again with Jayant's comments, some tedious admin.
- Did a small fix on linkoo taking a minute or two to
perfect / test, spent another 10 minutes filing an issue, attaching
the patch, marking it fixed, creating a cws, committing it, adding
the task number, marking it ready for QA, marking the bug verified,
adding a QA comment, marking it approved by QA. A 10/1 ratio for
fix/infrastructure commit pain - it seems obvious to me that this
process will dramatically impeede the quick inclusion of trivial
bug fixes, and hence rapid development / test / feedback iterations,
resulting in only local experts having the patience to create a
relevant cws - and glup together enough small fixes (10 + ?) to
make it actually worthwhile.
- Checked the re-named / modern sub-set of Industrial
icons into OO.o cvs: 1622 new files; still many with helpful names
like
sx03219.png, created a new cws to do the artwork
layering we need.
- Interesting mail from Mike Hearn of Codeweavers fame about
the new glibc RTLD_DEEPBIND support; possibly useful for
accelerating OO.o startup - iff C++'s weak symbol addiction
can cope.
- Committed my hacks to the artwork build logic to
ooo-build for some more testing action - looking rather good
though. Worked late.
In case it's not painfully obvious: the reflections reflected here are my
own; mine, all mine ! and don't reflect the views of Novell, The
Lithuanian Gov't or Arnold Schwarzenegger. It's also important to
realise that I'm not in on the Swedish Conspiracy.
Occasionally people ask for formal photos for conferences,
bio.
or fun.
Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@novell.com)
