Free Software Carnival: 28 June – 4 July

Attribution

John Palmieri discusses the pros and cons of acknowledging coders in press releases.

Version control

Justin Dugger talks about version control from a packager’s point of view and reviews some of the discussion to date.

Tim Penhey looks at using Bazaar’s loom plugin.

Casey Dahlin can’t stand Bazaar’s shortcomings.

Russ Albery is considering how to maintain a git repository for an upstream Bazaar project.

Elections

Jon Stanley discusses voting turnout in the Fedora Board elections.

Community

Sridhar Dhanapalan checks in from the Education Expo 2008.

Stuart Langridge announced the end of LugRadio, as did Jono Bacon.

Og Maciel discusses the suitability of political posts on Planets.

Tim Connors, Andrew Pollock and I, and undoubtedly others to follow, all weigh in on having Twitter feeds appearing on Planets.

Filesystems

Evgeniy Polyakov notes some filesystem development rumours about distributed filesystems.

Ted Ts’o is dogfooding ext4.

Testing

Curtis Poe recommends narrative testing for ease of maintainence.

Software development

Glyph Lefkowitz is thinks that most talk about software scability is wrongheaded and advocated the joys of static typing for on the wire protocols.

Ivan Krstić opens the floor for questions.

Ted Lueng is looking forward to DTrace getting a foot in the door on Linux.

Chris McDonough doesn’t like the distribution_links feature of Python’s setuptools.

Donnie Berkholz is outputting profiler results in colour.

Benjamin Carlyle has started collecting REST GET patterns.

Release management

Mark Ramm-Christensen is contemplating release schedules for TurboGears 2.

Deployment

Brendan Scott continues to review the hidden costs of closed source.

Library choice

Curtis Poe considers the problem of finding good software on CPAN.

Project websites

Brian Jones would like software websites to shape up.

Hacks

Atul Varma explains Scott Petersen’s work on porting C to the Tamarin virtual machine, thus running code on the web.

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