a subversive act of playful cleverness

Sun, 17 Jun 2007

It's the time of the year I feel a bit nostalgic since for the second, consecutive, time since 2004 I'm not at debconf. This time I've decided so, since I'm currently focused on develop my academic profile trying to catch-up this unfinished business I wanted to pursue sometime ago when I was younger. By May, things were quite on-schedule so I decided to drop this trip, since I didn't wanted to be involved in another unfortunate situation due time contraints, now even more constrained by my new responsibilities in life.

I've tried to follow the conf over the stream since yesterday, but I felt asleep by 1am (8am there). However, as video team previously announced, by 17's night I went to the meetings arhive and downloaded Bdale's talk. I was impressed by the quality and professionalism of the video and the on-time (or time-to-market, aka me) publising. I want to congratulate the video team for this, very good work guys!. It's the second time I follow the conf over the stream and it helps to the being-there feeling.

Anyway, I'm already arranging stuff and scheduling the time for debconf8 in Argentina. Hopefully I'm able to skip some days of class. I believe it would be a wonderful time, I also plan to visit my family there also. So, see you next year!.

Now the usbmgr package. I have quite a feeling for this package (you might guess this knowing there were more mature options available since a couple of years ago). This was the first package I was in charge in Debian, and as popcon says there are still some users. However, things come to an end and I decided, as previously prepared and stated to some users, to orphan it post-etch.

Now that the time has come, I'll do so and request its removal from the archive also in the following days. There are more mature options such the udev+hald mix and they support much more devices and give the user much more pleasant experience. usbmgr is a piece of software that was written when there was no good/integrated support for USB devices, specially pendrivers and memory sticks. There's no activity on upstream from long time ago, in fact I never was able to reach him, but I was trying to keep it useful for new software environments from time to time.
In case you still want to keep or maintain it, please drop me an email: rudy at d.o.

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