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Hello Planet Debian

Posted on 2/09/2009 by Olivier Berger

Hi all Debian news addicts. If all goes well, I should now be part of the Debian planet, thanks to the good Planet Maintainers. In a few words, I’m a Debian Maintainer, and long time Debian fan (although sometimes disappointed … Continue reading →

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RDF from Debian bugs demonstrator online

Posted on 30/07/2009 by Olivier Berger

I’ve blogged often about our efforts around RDF and UDD in recent times. This time, we have used triplify to export contents of some tables of the Debian UDD database to provide information about Debian bugs facts as RDF feeds … Continue reading →

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Mantis 1.1.8 now in Debian testing

Posted on 21/07/2009 by Olivier Berger

With our help (in the frame of our work on Mantis in the Helios project), the version in Debian testing of Mantis is now in sync with upstream (1.1.8) : http://packages.qa.debian.org/m/mantis/news/20090709T163923Z.html Next steps, integrate Mantis in the Helios platform for … Continue reading →

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SOAP interface back in Mantis 1.1.8 just uploaded in Debian

Posted on 29/06/2009 by Olivier Berger

With our contribution in the frame of the Helios project, the recently uploaded Mantis Debian package is back up-to-date (1.1.8), and includes again the SOAP interface. More details in Mantis overview in the PTS.

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after debbugs, bts-link works now over mantis…

Posted on 24/06/2009 by Olivier Berger

… well, at least on my machine The goal is to be able to track remote bugs with bts-link even for your own list of (private) bugs that are not in debbugs (see also prevous post about this idea we … Continue reading →

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I’m going to Debconf 9… but before, I’ll go to RMLL/LSM

Posted on 23/06/2009 by Olivier Berger

Yeah, I’m also going to the Debconf9 : Actually, it will be my very first real Debconf as a contributor to Debian, even if I was around at the Debconf 0 and 1 in Bordeaux, which were held during the … Continue reading →

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Presentations on multiple displays in OOo Impress really awesome

Posted on 17/06/2009 by Olivier Berger

For a while I’ve configured Xinerama to be able to properly use the two video outputs on my laptop (the standard internal laptop screen and the VGA output for video projector). I can then switch to a mode with a … Continue reading →

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Great paper on evolution of Debian

Posted on 13/06/2009 by Olivier Berger

http://libresoft.es/Members/jgb/blog/the-evolution-of-debian describes a very interesting paper published by Jesus M. Gonzales-Barahona et al. about the evolution of Debian between 2.2 and 4.0 : “Macro-level software evolution: a case study of a large software compilation”. Can’t wait until it’s updated for … Continue reading →

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Presentation at WOPDASD 2009 : Weaving a Semantic Web across OSS repositories (a spotlight on bts-link, UDD, SWIM)

Posted on 6/06/2009 by Olivier Berger

I’ve just delivered our presentation about the use of Semantic Web techniques and on some of the tools we’re interested in at the moment for our work on HELIOS, at the WOPDASD 2009 workshop. Here are the slides : Weaving … Continue reading →

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Extending bts-link beyond debbugs (starting with mantis)

Posted on 10/04/2009 by Olivier Berger

We want to be able to extend bts-link (or -like services) so that bugs linked between different bugtrackers can be linked to each-other and the status changes monitored, as part of our tasks in Helios (see LinkedBugsMonitoring). We’ll probably try … Continue reading →

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UDD export as RDF data through D2R and a corresponding mapping definition

Posted on 18/03/2009 by Olivier Berger

(this is a copy of a post I made on the debian-qa list) I’ve been pursuing previous ideas about the use of Semantic Web standards for publication of facts about Debian using the UDD database as a source. FYI, I … Continue reading →

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UDD, SWIM, Flossmetrics : facts databases about libre software distributions… going Semantic ?

Posted on 10/02/2009 by Olivier Berger

I’ve attended the recent FOSDEM 2009 (great as always), where a number of presentations triggered a lot of my interest. First @DebianRoom where Lucas presented UDD, the Universal Debian Database. This database groups facts about the Debian project, to ease … Continue reading →

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Introduction to bts-link slides

Posted on 5/02/2009 by Olivier Berger

bts-link is a very useful tool which helps keep track of bug status changes when a Debian bug has been marked as linked to another bug in an other (upstream) bugtracker. I’ve prepared some slides of introduction for our partners … Continue reading →

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Is GForge really GForge ? clarification needed

Posted on 22/01/2009 by Olivier Berger

Gforge 4.5 is the FLOSS version of GForge, that most of us can download, install, for instance as Debian packages. But for some users looking for “the” latest, most up-to-date GForge, there’s a risk to go test (and buy) a … Continue reading →

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Meme time : I’m going to FOSDEM

Posted on 20/01/2009 by Olivier Berger

Hehe, I’m going to FOSDEM too. It will be an occasion to discuss bugtracking and bugs synchronisation, and maybe other things, like bts-link, we’re (planing to be) working on for the Helios project. See you in Brussels

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