Anthony Wong » Free Software

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 Release Talk

anthony — Wed, 09 May 2007 07:49:33 +0000

Last night I gave a short presentation at Beijing Linux User Group (BLUG) on the Debian project and the new Etch release. As Roy Chan had given a talk about the new release in the Hong Kong Debian Etch release party, I asked for his permission to use his slides for this talk, and he happily agreed. I made some modifications to his slides and cut out the part about Linux introduction, you can find the presentation slides in OpenOffice.org 2 format here, PDF version here. In the meeting Darren mentioned the idea of using peer-to-peer technology in apt, so that users don’t need to set any repositories in the configuration, this is a very good idea, and coincidentally there is a Google Summer of Code project on this topic.

深入研究發布管理 (release management)

anthony — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:08:48 +0000

上一屆的 Debian leader Martin Michlmayr 在他的 blog 上發表了一系列關於自由／開源軟件發布管理 (release management) 的分析文章。由於 Martin Michlmayr 在劍橋大學所做的 PhD 論文是針對自由軟件質量保證方面的研究，他的幾篇就 Debian, GCC, Gnome 和 Linux kernel 的分析都很精確，重點的列出了每個 project 管理發布的問題和解決方法，各有千秋，很不有趣。雖然篇幅不多，但是對於需要宏觀了解這些大 project 的朋友起了很大的幫助。相信他的論文會有更詳細的分析，非常期待可以早日看到他的研究成果，並希望能同時為 Debian 找到一條光明之路。