As you may have noticed, freebsd blog stuff has been down lately. Erwin was hosting everything and apache crashed while he was away. For some reason, people with root access to the machine couldn’t restart it and Erwin isn’t supposed to come back before a few days.
I decided to move everything to my own server, so it’s now back online. If you haven’t done it yet, please update your bookmarks and use planet.freebsdish.org and blogs.freebsdish.org rather than the names ending in droso.org or droso.net (as I have no control over those DNS zones).
I haven’t blogged about this in a few weeks so I figured that could be a good time to give everybody an update.
It has been decided that the X11BASE to LOCALBASE migration would happen when we merge the new X.org in the ports tree. The necessary infrastructure changes have been done but some ports are broken by these changes. There are also a few ports broken by new X.org import left to fix.
Good news is that lesi is back so he’ll take x11@ leadership back and work on this; and miwi volunteered to fix part of those broken ports as well. An exp-build has been done last week-end and all of us got the errorlogs, so now it’s only a matter of fixing stuff.
With help from mlaier and sam, I finally committed my first significant contribution to the src tree.
Few months ago, anholt gave me email addresses of people at Intel that would be willing to discuss terms under which we could redistribute their firmwares. After a few emails (and some months), we came to an agreement. I added support for restricted firmwares to firmware(9), mlaier/sam reviewed it and voila!
Commit is here and heads-up is here.
Update: Now, here comes the Press Release!
I guess it’s time to review what I’ve done for the past year. Not much actually. I’ve focused on X.org ports while trying to get my ports up-to-date. There’s also the USE_LDCONFIG variable.
Anyway, I think I can tell that this was a very unproductive year. I guess I’ve spent too much time playing games and going out. My src commit bit anniversary is the 30th of march and I don’t remember anything significant I’ve done in this area besides breaking /etc/rc.d/jail.
I’ll have a few pints to celebrate and meditate about what I’ll be working on this new year.
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