• Asse (Telepolis, Die Zeit)
• Deutschlands Krieg in Afghanistan
• Fortwährende Aushöhlung der Bürgerrechte
• Die kaputte Gesundheitspolitik (Kopfpauschale, Bürgerversicherung, …)

Stattdessen: Weiter so. Merkel sagt ja noch nicht einmal, wer in einer zukünftigen CDU-geführten Regierung das Personal sein soll.

In Tschechien hingegen dürfte sich der Hass der jungen Leute auf die Sozialdemokraten zurecht noch einmal vergrößert haben (ich kenne zumindest niemanden, der hier freiwillig Sozialdemokraten, Grüne oder Kommunisten wählen würde). Ich sollte wieder Eier kaufen gehen.

Alles ein Trauerspiel. Wenigstens am Katzentisch sieht es gut aus.

To summarize the important decisions:

• Bug reports in GNOME Bugzilla (not: enhancement requests) with 1 year without any activity will be set to NEEDINFO state and reporters will be asked to update the report’s status by testing again on a recent GNOME version. After 6 weeks without response these reports can be closed as RESOLVED INCOMPLETE. A new stock answer will be made available for this.
• There are many modules in GNOME Bugzilla that have not seen any code changes for years (except for translation updates). Bugsquad members will try to identify those obsolete/unmaintained modules and contact the maintainers. We expect a response within four weeks from the maintainers. Without a response the remaining reports will probably be closed as WONTFIX while explaining to the reporter that the module is not maintained anymore and will not receive any updates. I must admit that I have done this already before and complaints were fairly low (2 people when I mass-closed open gnome-vfs enhancement requests) or non-existing (e.g. when closing all open Scaffold bugs).
• The “FIXED” stock answers will kindly ask bug reporters to verify the fix once it has landed in their distribution and if they have some time. The specific stock answers will be updated accordingly.

It was nice to discuss best practices and policies to have a less messy GNOME Bugzilla. Looking forward to our next meeting.

And PS: Hi to the Planet Fedora desktop readers.

Friends of mine had gotten internet a bit earlier and it was interesting to see the new opportunitities offered by it, e.g. chatting or access to information. We were also able to use internet at school – three Windows 98 computers (with 166-233MHz if I remember correctly) were available.
alt-232, btk3003, t69m & me founded Shutdown Crew – another anniversary to celebrate. From nowadays’ point of view I’d call our activities scriptkiddieing but still I pretend that it was about experimentally using available technology at that time (while having lots of fun).

For a few months I even had a dial-up flatrate at home (until that company went bankrupt). So Napster was running only at night and my parents could use their phoneline at day. The first usage of IRC probably took place here too.
After moving from my parents’ place to a town with a university I still used to have a modem dial-up connection for years until our neighbour offered us to share his broadband wifi. After that you won’t go back.
When I started bugwork on Evolution in Ximian Bugzilla my IRC usage was totally different to nowadays – guenther described it with “Got in, asked three questions to Gerardo Marin (the Evolution bugmaster) and immediately went offline again”.
Later on my workflow was to have a table and a textfile with bug numbers and required actions that I took with me to the university where I spend time on IRC and downloaded the latest testing rpm files to install on my home computer (I finally bought my first laptop *years* after that). I could not reproduce bugs directly at the university as their GNOME/Linux installation was ancient.

It’s only a few years ago but now all this somehow sounds strange to me – internet has become way more ubiquitious.
Same when I think about mobile phones and the society.

• Fifteen years ago a phone number belonged to a place. Now it belongs to a person.
• There were always a few friends that expected me to answer their calls to my mobile phone at any time because “that is the reason why people have a mobile phone”. Nope. Still me deciding.
• From my experience more people are late to appointments because they now have the option to send a short message five minutes before. “Hi, won’t make it in time. Will be late”.
• Young people plan less when and where to meet in the evening – you can spontaneously call somebody, ask where s/he is and if it’s good around there.

All in all it’s been an interesting ride and I’m looking forward to the next ten years of communication somewhere between good old email, SMS, IRC, IM (ICQ, MSN, Google Talk), Facebook, Twitter/Qaiku and blog comments plus a good indexing service that makes finding sent & received information easier with all those different communication channels around that I sometimes use…

• Röyksopp: Happy Up Here
• Metric: Sick Muse
• La Roux: Bulletproof
• Schools of Seven Bells: Connjur
• Lady Gaga: Pokerface (acoustic)
• Unkle: Heaven
• The Dø: On my Shoulders
• Simian Mobile Disco: Hustler
• Depeche Mode: Everything Counts (Oliver Huntemann & Stephan Bodzin remix)
• Björk: All Is Full Of Love (Chris.su remix)

Und am Mittwoch abend dann live:

• Nine Inch Nails (aufgespürt von meiner hochgeschätzten Abendbegleitung)
• Alec Empire

Freu.