Hackweek
During Hackweek, I:

- released Mozilla Firefox 3.0.12.
- released a SLE11 / 11.1 Kernel Update.
- helped watching that we do not miss critical security issues...

Err, wait... That is not what Hackweek is about ... so what did you "hack"?

- I ported libgphoto2 using applications to the next and upcoming major version. You can find the results in GPhoto:UNSTABLE buildservice repository. Was actually easier than I thought though. (f-spot is however not ported, adapting the C# bindings will be not just some 2 liners.)

- I hacked stuff in libgphoto2, especially Canon EOS and Powershot stuff, and some cleanups.

- On Sunday evening I ported my internal package update notifier to the openSUSE buildservice Factory mechanisms.

I am running internally some perl scripts hooked up to procmail and cron that look for new package versions and send nagging mails to maintainers. I already did in Caldera days and moved and improved those over the years.

What are they looking at:
- the freshmeat daily digest mail via procmail.
- sourceforge release notices (I am subscribed to every package we want updates for, since there seems no global RSS feed for it) via procmail.
- GNOME , KDE and CPAN RSS news feeds via cron job.
- (not run these days... a perl script looking up all Factory packages in the buildservice for newer versions.)
- Versions currently in Factory (cron job).

If a newer version is spotted, the maintainer is emailed and entry stored in the database.

What I changed was the migration from using the old internal PDB (package database) to use the new datasets in the openSUSE buildservice metadata. This means that all community packagers will now get nag emails.

You can now look at these pages in HTML form, in CSV form, or visual enhanced integrated in Coolos Factory Status page.