Woo! As, Jeremy points
out, dkl has enabled
threading
in Red Hat's bugzilla mail. Now I can stop filtering my mail
through "fixup-threading.sh" :-)
Red Hat developers are soon going to wonder how they ever survived
without
this. We GNOME hackers have been spoilt for far too long ...
I'm back home again from Boston. Maybe I'll start getting some work
done again now :-)
I've put up some photos from the trip
here.
Looks like
hadess,
mjcox,
gary
and dwmw2
have all taken a big overdose of the Red Hat drugs. So have I.
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This Red Hat company meeting thing was a weird experience for
me. Realizing just how deeply rooted open source is in the Red Hat
culture. Realizing that what I'm hearing isn't just the lip service to
open source that I heard in Sun. Seeing a real understanding of and
commitment to open source from each of the 600ish people
attending. Its like coming home or something. Man, I'm so psyched
after the whole thing.
Well, I'm pretty exhausted too :-)
I've been really taken by surprise at how my motivation has jumped
hugely with the move to Red Hat. I'm even enjoying things like bugzilla
work, packaging and release-team stuff these days. Clearly, this can't
last. And I've got to get back hacking on things like Vino soon ...
GNOME 2.6 looks like its pretty much on track. Things like the gtk+
schedule and the constant string freeze breakage has given the release
team the heebie jeebies somewhat, but after our irc meeting last night
I'm feeling pretty confident the release will come out without any huge
hitches.
Alex and I have been updating the GNOME packages in Fedora Core to the
latest GNOME Beta ones. Hopefully, by the time FC2 test2 goes into
devel
freeze on Friday we'll have most of the packages updated. A big
priority
is to get the new file selector out to the Fedora testing masses, so
I'm going to update gtk+/atk/pango/glib to the latest today. Also going
to shove the little gnome-netstatus applet in too :-)
So, today is my last day working for Sun which feels very, very
strange. Its been a great few years and I'm genuinely going to
miss this place and the great people here. I still can't believe
that my dream of working full time on free software has come
true. Sun made that possible - for that I'll be ever grateful.
On the upside, though, it marks the start of a new and exciting
adventure - working for Red Hat. Its a little daunting, actually.
Having seen the awesome work the guys do, I've no idea if I'll
be able to live up to their standards. I can't wait to get
started though :-)
I hope people don't read into this something that isn't there -
even though I'm leaving, I still think Sun is a great place to
work and that its a company with a seriously bright future.
My moving to Red Hat has nothing to do with which is a "better"
company, and everything to do with me wanting to take up the
opportunity of a new challenge.
I can't get Robert Frost's
The Road
Not Taken out of my
head right now. It pretty well sums
up how I'm feeling ... but that could just be the hangover :-)