I have been able to move all my public virtual hosts, and have already noticed the improvement on how fast the pages load. Here is a sample graph of the disk I/O rates of my linode showing before/after the switch to nginx:

I only had an issue with StatusNet due to the default behavior of spawn-cgi to not spawn any PHP child except if told otherwise. I also had to fix the OpenID plugin for WordPress, as per this commit.

For now, I keep apache running for the DSPAM Web UI, which requires suexec. I know I can easily run the CGI through a different user, but still have to polish my setup for FastCGI.

The setup is quite easy, but I still have some tuning left. Most of the plugins I have tried (XMPP, realtime and twitter bridge) were very resource intensive, especially for my tiny virtual server, I hence had to disable them. I can live without them.

You can now follow my dents on sn.kirya.net. If you were following me on identi.ca, please update your subscription, the account will remain there but I do not expect to use it anymore.

The current problems with identi.ca show how important federation and decentralization are. My timeline is very quiet for now though, I encourage more people to setup their own instances.

This has puzzled me as some applications were started twice in my Openbox session: those launched via my ~/.config/openbox/autostart script which are also launched through xdg autostart.

I also like to use notify-osd when in openbox, but it seems the new gnome-fallback session requires notification-daemon. In my Openbox session, I have noticed that notification-daemon was launched whereas my autostart script specifies to use notify-osd. I then discovered that /etc/xdg/autostart/notification-daemon.desktop was the cause of this.

I had to drop a notification-daemon.desktop file in my ~/.config/autostart/ directory with the following contents:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Notification Daemon
Comment=Display notifications
Exec=/usr/lib/notification-daemon/notification-daemon
Terminal=false
Type=Application
NoDisplay=true
OnlyShowIn=LXDE;GNOME
AutostartCondition=GNOME3 unless-session gnome
X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true

This allows me to not start notification-daemon only when using Openbox – ie. it still starts automatically when launching a GNOME session.

You can check what applications are automatically started through xdg with:

/usr/lib/openbox/openbox-xdg-autostart --list OPENBOX

The results are quite amazing, most applications being only configured to start in GNOME or KDE, but nothing seems to be very coordinated amongst maintainers.

I find this quite misleading, and would prefer openbox to stick with the previous default behaviour. Who said “diehard”?!

Note that these packages are meant to be used with caution, I have only tested them on my own hardware, and they would deserve more careful review.

All -source and -dkms packages are available in my personal repository for Debian sid.

The sources are maintained in git, as usual.

• rts5139
  This new module is already in linux-next and adds support for recent 5129/39 Realtek card readers.
• psmouse-elantech
  This is the psmouse module with basic v3 hardware support for newer devices not currently supported by the in-tree module.
  See the discussion at #633595 for more information.
• acerhdf
  The in-tree acerhdf module doesn’t support the BIOS version 1.3314 of my Aspire 1810TZ, while the module available at http://www.piie.net/?section=acerhdf does. I have hence packaged this version, and even submitted a one-line patch upstream which has been accepted for linux 3.1. My first (tiny) contribution!
• omnibook
  I have also taken the time to update the omnibook package. The project is still unmaintained upstream, but I have git commit access, hence if anybody is interested in taking over…

The Debian packages are almost ready, but still require further testing as they have been largely amended, especially to add multiarch support. I expect to upload them to unstable within the next week or so, and, if no major problem happens in the meantime, will upload them to squeeze-backports as soon as they reach testing.

If you happen to have my key 0x258E26B1 in your public keyring, please update it:

gpg --keyserver hkp://the.earth.li --recv-keys 258E26B1

This will allow me to keep my master private key offline while still being able to sign mail or Debian packages for upload.

It will have to go through the NEW queue as I have added a dspam-dbg binary package containing debugging symbols.

I am now listed as the only uploader, all previous maintainers having lost interest in maintaining DSPAM.

Please test these new packages, report bugs, help me improving them so that I can finally upoad it to unstable.

It will be my first time there, I hope I’ll manage to meet lots of people I only know through mailing-lists.

See you there!

My account name is simply: julien

I have been a Debian user for about 10 years now, and began contributing to Debian in 2005. I have then been accepted as a Debian Maintainer in 2007.

This post is mainly to thank:

• all my sponsors: Christoph Haas (haas) , Loïc Minier (lool), Free Ekanayaka (freee), Maximiliano Curia (maxy) and Micah Anderson (micah),
• my advocate: Matthijs Möhlman (matthijs)
• my AM (who has actually made it happen in a really short time frame, thanks a lot to him): Xavier Oswald (xoswald)
• all people who helped me during the process, to name a few: Christoph Berg (myon), Enrio Zini (enrico), Peter Palfrader (weasel)

Also thanks to all people who have already sent their congratulations, it makes me very proud!

It was really nice to meet a lot of people, and to be able to discuss various aspects of Debian and Free Software in general.

People came from all over Europe (at least from the UK, Spain, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Greece, and obviously a majority of French people).

All the talks I have been able to attend were really interesting, and some of the slides have already been made available by their author:

• Debian and Ubuntu by Lucas Nussbaum
• Debian Quality Assurance by Lucas Nussbaum
• Latest features of dpkg-dev by Raphaël Hertzog
• Smart cards in Debian by Ludovic Rousseau

I have also taken part to the keysigning party, which will now allows me to use my newly generated 4096R key.

The group picture is also online, as well as a more comprehensive gallery.

Thanks a lot to the organisation team, you guys have made an awesome work!

See you all next year!