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Beta-version of debexpo is out

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

I’m actually enjoying the Google Summer of Code where I offered to mentor the “debexpo” project (a Debian package repository software that is supposed to replace my old crappy code on mentors.debian.net as well as work as an alternative for PPA, REVU and other tools like that). Jonny has really exceeded my expectations. Now that roughly half of the time to complete the project is up Jonny Lamb (the student actually doing the coding) has presented a usable beta version. See his blog posting at http://jonnylamb.com/2008/07/09/debexpo/ and feel free to help testing and make suggestions.

Our GSoC project has been accepted - yahoo! :)

Monday, April 21st, 2008

This is pretty exciting. I have never bothered about Google’s Summer of Code and have literally been forced (curse you, Kumar) to propose my project I’m working on.

And in the end I have a promising student and Google accepted our proposal. Watching #gsoc while everybody was waiting whether they got accepted caused more traffic than #freenode-newyears. Looking forward to days and nights of my spare time vanish for a fancy T-shirt. :) Nah, seriously. A lot of people have asked for an easy-to-handle web-enabled package repository. It will surely be very helpful as a clean and featureful basis for mentors.debian.net as well as the replacement for PPAs and REVU. And this will be my first large open-source Pylons project, too. I’m excited.