When do people learn? Lars Engels made the classic mistake of sending too many, too good PRs and miwi@ forced him to join the committers guild. Welcome aboard!
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BSDCan
Posted by erwin
on June 5, 2007
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I just realized I completely forgot to write anything about the main goal of my trip to Canada: BSDCan, the yearly BSD conference organized by Dan Langille in Ottawa. Several people have been recommending it for the last couple of years, so I decided to have a look for myself. The two days up to the conference, there was another FreeBSD developer summit, the largest so far with over 50 people attending. Two days packed with information from 9am to 8pm with 5-10 minute breaks. Wow, that was good! I was happy to see quite a lot of vendors turned up. Usually, they just stick whatever version and part of FreeBSD in their product and noone ever knows and everybody is happy, but it seems they are looking for more cooperation in both ways.
The DevSummit was large enough to be split in two tracks for some of the time, and it seemed that the other track was much more interesting, so not many people turned up for my portmgr status report talk. Luckily, Kirk McKusick was there so there at least were some questions.
After so much information during the DevSummit, my brain was pretty much overloaded, so I didn’t see too much of the real conference. I won’t mention all the talks I saw, but let me mention Wietse Venema, author of a.o. postfix, did a quite amuzing recap of a couple of security issues spread over time, giving a good overview on how security work has changed over the last 10-15 years. Also, the upcoming SD/MMC cards Warner Losh talked about promise some nice new gadgets in the near future.
A big thanks to Dan for putting together such a well-organized conference in a relaxing atmosphere. I for one will certainly try to be there again next year!
New ports committer: Timur I. Bakeyev
Posted by erwin
on June 5, 2007
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Timur I. Bakeyev has been helping out on our dear ports tree for some time, especially maintaining samba. Now he will be set loose in cvs, with a little help from shaun. Have a lot of fun!
New ports committer: Beech Rintoul
Posted by erwin
on May 30, 2007
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Yet another one that fell for the classic mistake of sending too may good patches, Beech Rintoul has been punished by sat with a port commit bit. Enjoy!
Two new committers: Tong LIU and Marcelo Araujo
Posted by erwin
on April 24, 2007
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Another day, another two committers. I’m happy to see another committer with an interest in java, we could use some help there. So please welcome Tong LIU, with Xin LI as his mentor. Marcelo Araujo made the classic mistake of sending too many PRs with updates and fixes, and will now have to do his work himself, with Stanislav Sedov as a mentor.
A warm welcome to both!
New Committer: Edward Tomasz Napierala
Posted by erwin
on April 12, 2007
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Please welcome Edward Tomasz Napierala to the ranks of the ports committers, as happened so many times before, he sent too many PRs and is duely being punished. Why do people never learn? Good luck!
New ports committers: Li-Wen Hsu and Martin Matuska
Posted by erwin
on March 31, 2007
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It’s always nice to save some of the good things in life, so it adds up. Two more people have made it to the ranks of the ports committers in the last few weeks. Li-Wen Hsu, mentored by clsung, and Martin Matuska, mentored by garga, have both received the usual punishment after sending too many PRs. Welcome aboard to you both!
New committer: Diane Bruce
Posted by erwin
on January 18, 2007
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Diane has been a long time contributor, mainly to the hamradio ports, and finally ehaupt offered to mentor her and give her a well-deserved commit bit. Welcome Diane!
Two new committers: Juergen Lock and Dryice Liu
Posted by erwin
on December 22, 2006
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Just in time to have their commit bits gift wrapped for Christmas, Juergen Lock and Dryice Liu have joined the ranks of the ports committers after way too many PRs. Merry Christmas and happy committing to both of them!
New ports committer: Gábor Kövesdán
Posted by erwin
on December 5, 2006
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Gábor has been working for some time on our ports collection, especially working on the ports infrastructure during his Google Summer of Code project this summer. His biggest mistake was to keep working and lately has been cleaning up a lot in old and abandoned projects to deprecate those ports so that they can either get the attention they need from a new maintainer that can find where the project has moved, or be removed from the ports tree. All his work has now been punished with a ports commit bit and to make matters worse, I’m his mentor. He’ll need all the luck he can get!