Beuc's Blog
Around 3 years ago I revamped planet.gnu.org and hosted it myself, as the previous host was defunc. I won't have the energy host it for much longer, so planet.gnu.org is now looking for a new host and maintainer. In any case I'll shut down the service when I upgrade to Debian 11 "bullseye" in a few months. Everything needed to run the service is documented and stored in the infra and config…
When experimenting with Godot and its GDScript language, I realized that I missed a good old REPL (Read-Eval-Print Loop) to familiarize myself with the language and API. This is now possible with this new Godot Editor plugin Try it at: https://godotengine.org/asset-library/asset/857
Android Rebuilds provides freely-licensed builds of Android development tools from a Mountain View-based company. Proprietary binaries are rebuilt from source, build recipes are reverse-engineered. SDK 11 (API 30) is mostly available, as unattended Docker build scripts , build documentation as well as convenience binaries . Only the x86 system image currently fails to build.
Android Rebuilds provides freely-licensed builds of Android development tools from a Mountain View-based company. The Emulator package moved to a separate component and build system. Emulator 30 is now available, as unattended Docker build scripts , build documentation as well as convenience binaries .
I'm mirroring and reworking a large Git repository with git filter-branch (conversion ETA: 20h), and I was wondering how to use --state-branch which is supposed to speed-up later updates, or split a large conversion in several updates. The documentation is pretty terse, the option can produce weird results (like an identity mapping that breaks all later updates, or calling the expensive…
Here is my transparent report for my work on the Debian Long Term Support (LTS) and Debian Extended Long Term Support (ELTS) , which extend the security support for past Debian releases, as a paid contributor. In September, the monthly sponsored hours were split evenly among contributors depending on their max availability - I was assigned 19.75h for LTS (out of my 30 max; all done) and 20h for…
Here is my transparent report for my work on the Debian Long Term Support (LTS) and Debian Extended Long Term Support (ELTS) , which extend the security support for past Debian releases, as a paid contributor. In August, the monthly sponsored hours were split evenly among contributors depending on their max availability - I was assigned 21.75h for LTS (out of my 30 max; all done) and 14.25h for…
The system running planet.gnu.org was upgraded/reinstalled to Debian 10 "buster" Documentation was updated. Let me know if you notice any issue - planet@gnu.org . For the next upgrade, we'll have to decide whether to takeover Planet Venus and upgrade it to Python 3, or migrate to another Planet software. Suggestions/help welcome
Here is my transparent report for my work on the Debian Long Term Support (LTS) and Debian Extended Long Term Support (ELTS) , which extend the security support for past Debian releases, as a paid contributor. In July, the monthly sponsored hours were split evenly among contributors depending on their max availability - I was assigned 25.25h for LTS (out of 30 max; all done) and 13.25h for ELTS…
Here is my transparent report for my work on the Debian Long Term Support (LTS) and Debian Extended Long Term Support (ELTS) , which extend the security support for past Debian releases, as a paid contributor. In June, the monthly sponsored hours were split evenly among contributors depending on their max availability - I was assigned 30h for LTS (out of 30 max; all done) and 5.25h for ELTS (out…