From Behind The Lines

January 7, 2004 10:50 pm General

It’s been a busy week, and as per usual everything seems to happen at the last minute. Spent much of the last few weeks porting JDS to GNOME 2.5.x, in the hope that we might be able to push a few patches upstream in time for the feature freeze. This week is patch pushing week and it’s been quite productive. A lot of the pretty big patches are still in the process of being ported, so I’m not entirely confident that they will all make it. GNOME 2.5.x is looking pretty good, and feel bad that I didn’t have any time to work on new stuff for either gnome-utils or zenity. Got pointed to an interesting article here, which seems fairly much on the ball. I’m rather curious to see if Sun can maintain its momentum, given various recent set backs – it’s been a disappointing and frustrating time of late and I feel there is little I can do to change that.

Heading off to Adelaide for LCA on Sunday. Very much looking forward to the conference, although beginning to feel that my JDS talk is a little too corporate for the target audience. Hopefully I’ll be able to come up with some interesting insights from behind the lines, otherwise it’ll be a case of ‘here’s what you already know’. Haven’t begun to think about the other talk I offered to co-present – reckon that might be a last minute talk thrown together.

Had a good conversation with Arvind over my trip to India in February. Getting more excited about it and I think there could be a lot of benefit from it, especially if I can get the folks there to open up so that we can work through all the various hurdles that Sun has thrown into the partnership. The topic of planet GNOME came up on an internal mailing list this week, and I think it could be interesting trying to get the GNOME teams from Sun and Wipro to blog – it seems like an excellent way of keeping each other in touch with what is happening.

Climbing is going well. Climbed an overhanging 22 the other day [French 6c, 6c+?] which was heaps of fun. Bought a new rope, and a bouldering mat. It’s proving to be the perfect escape route for me right now, although sad that I’m constantly hopping in and out of the country to have a regular training schedule.

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