I spent all day smoke testing the install images for yesterday’s (this mornings – gee just after midnight local so we still had 11 hours to spare) Debian GNU/Linux 10.0.0 “Buster” release. This year we had our “Biglyest test matrix ever”[0], 111 tests were completed at the point the release images were signed and the […]
Tag: Debian
March 16, 2019
andy
This post may feel like an advert – to an extent it is. I won’t plug events very often; however as a charity event in aid of prostate cancer and I genuinely think it will be great fun for anybody able to take part, so hence the unashamed plug. The Race for Science will happen […]
March 10, 2019
andy
I am slowly making progress. I am quite pleased with myself for slowly moving beyond triage, test, verify to now beginning to understand what is going on with some bugs and being able to suggest fixes :-) That said my C++ foo is poor and add in QT as well and #917711 is beyond me. […]
March 9, 2019
andy
I didn’t get a huge amount done today – A bit of email config for Andy followed by many installation tests to reproduce #911036, then to test and confirm the patch has fixed it. I can’t read a word of Japanese but thankfully Hideki provided the appropriate runes I needed to ‘match’ so I was […]
February 11, 2019
andy
I can save £0.40 per device if I move from the ATMEGA328P to an ATMEGA328PB, given that I am expecting to use around 4000 of these microcontrollers a year this looks like a no brainer decision to me… The ATMEGA328P has been around for a few years now and I did check that the device […]
January 31, 2019
andy
Today has mostly been spent in conversation. Jonathan has started to scratch an itch that I share, we need a better tally light solution. When we were using DV switch we had a simple tally light system using (iirc DTR on a) serial port to turn on or off an LED. This was fine because […]
January 31, 2019
andy
Two things to concentrate on today, getting the stage box rack populated and following conversation with starting to Jonathan last night, to look at Raspberry Pi boot. So task 1 Racking up the stage box equipment It is a shame that we do not have all of the radio receivers for the stage box yet, […]
January 30, 2019
andy
The Debconf Video team has got together for a sprint… Travel. I asked my wife to drop me off at Waterbeach station for 09:45, from there I caught a train to Kings Cross, Walked across the road to St Pancras and caught the Eurostar To Brussels, and then a local service into Diegem. A short […]
May 18, 2016
andy
Last weekend saw a small group get togeather in Cambridge to hack on the OpenTAC. OpenTAC is an OpenHardware OpenSoftware test platform, designed specificly to aid automated testing and continious intergration. Aimed at small / mobile / embedded targets OpenTAC v1 provides all of the support infrastructure to drive up to 8 DUTs (Device Under […]