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- Really pleased to see Peter's blog about AEGIS, and good to see Cambridge involved too; good to see some more millions poured into making our a11y even more effective - clearly some great people involved there.
- Prodded mail; spoke to 'Fan' at the Hotel in Beijing to get a reservation, and confirmation number; finally got and printed that. Churned through older E-mail, cycled off to post my passport to CIBT.
- Interesting to see Thorsten's patch statistics for up-stream OO.o. These were not included in my contribution numbers, and are interesting enough. I'm not convinced the apparent recent decrease in submitted patches is statistically significant either, indeed the metric itself is pretty weak. Having said that, it's great to see Caolan (RedHat)'s heroic effort across the board (and in particular removing unused code) recognised with 1st place by miles; if there were ~550 patches filed so far in 2008; Caolan carried nearly 30% of the work by himself, with another 10% from the Novell guys in the top 10 [ pmladek, kohei, thb, kendy ] - and a great showing from Pavel (l10n++) & Tono (on the mingw port I guess). It's a shame not to post the raw data / spreadsheet for further mining though. Having said that - while 550 patches sounds a lot, is it really ? hard to say without a comparison to another live project.
- Discovered my calc is using a layout'ed "find" dialog; spent some time tweaking the XML for that to make it prettier and knocking up an E-mail for Janneke. Chased, reproduced & filed fontconfig related crasher.
- Lunch; Phoned Morris Armitage - apparently their new terms of business they sent are not those that they'll be using for us; funny people. Phoned Furniture Village's Cyrill - replacement for beetle infested sofa, removed ~10 weeks ago still pending.
- Dug at on-screen display bug, apparently down to some odd defaults. More gdm poking, gave up - dug at OpenJDK briefly instead, pinged Andrew. Dinner with babes, J. out to a girls night.
- Poked at UML - no matter how many hackers there are on Linux, it seems UML can't keep up, which is a shame - it should be dead useful. Chat with Miguel.
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In case it's not painfully obvious: the reflections reflected here are my own; mine, all mine ! and don't reflect the views of Collabora, SUSE, Novell, The Document Foundation, Spaghetti Hurlers (International), or anyone else. It's also important to realise that I'm not in on the Swedish Conspiracy. Occasionally people ask for formal photos for conferences or fun.
Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@collabora.com) 