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In one word: AWESOME
Every year I worry that DebConf might not be as good as I hope, or
not as good as previous years. Well, I've yet to be let down!
The road trip
down to Banja Luka was good fun, even if it took a little longer than
planned. We ended up travelling down through Germany on the same
Friday as much of the country finished work/school for their summer
vacation, so there was a lot of traffic. Meh, we got
there in the end.
I made my usual mistake of planning some things to hack on during
the DebConf week; by now I should know better... :-) I made a start on
one small project, but then got so distracted by so many talks and
side meetings with people that it's still waiting. As always, my own
personal TODO list picked up huge amounts of extra stuff from those
discussions. Catching up with, and socialising with, Debian friends
from all over the world was also fun as always!
Lots of highlights of the week for me, both for technical and
social reasons:
- Multi-arch is finally with us!
Great talk
from Steve Langasek, and a very
useful meeting
afterwards to unpick what work is still needed. Quite a bit,
it seems... :-)
- Useful meetings with Otavio to discuss future changes to how
debian-installer is going to work, and how the debian-cd and
debian-installer teams can work together better on that.
- Catching up with Martin to work out what's needed to get
pancutanfinally
integrated with our regular CD builds.
- Talking with Jimmy about where to go next for regular
debian-live builds on our
core CD build machine.
- The ARM
BoF, where things have moved on from "why should I care
about ARM?" to "when will you have armhf ready for going in the
archive?". W00t!
- Doing our own day trip in the cars from the UK. We got to meet
some very friendly and helpful local people, plus we found some
incredible roads to drive on. Even if not all of them
were technically roads yet... :-)
- Playing poker in a real casino for the first time, along with a
bunch of friends. Nice atmosphere, and very good fun.
Banja Luka was a lovely place to visit, and a great host city for
DebConf. Looking forwards to Managua now!
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