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I don't often post about work, but it's always with some trepidation that I switch my main computers to the new distro.
While I moved from the Distro team to leading the Support team last October, I still retain my Ubuntu core-dev status, and keep current by looking at toolchain issues occasionally and hacking on our SCC ports, ia64 and hppa. This means that not only do I keep my programming sk1llz from getting rusty through disuse, but I also have reason to keep in touch with other members of the distro team who are both work colleagues and friends.
As one of the people who cares the most about glibc in Ubuntu, I try to make sure that I'm running it wherever possible and making sure that I'm likely to find at least the obvious bugs before others.
So last night I pointed my sources.list to feisty.
This morning there were already two updates: base-files, and debootstrap. linux-libc-dev (the kernel headers) will come along shortly after the new kernel doesn't FTBFS. At the beginning of next week, there will be binutils, libc*, and gcc-4.1. And after that, the merge.
This will be the fourth release in a row that I've ridden from the first files uploaded. At times it's been exciting (leaving for a management meeting in Spain with a non-working X or wireless, not to mention broken cell phone and airplane. All of which were solved by the time I got to Mallorca.)
While I moved from the Distro team to leading the Support team last October, I still retain my Ubuntu core-dev status, and keep current by looking at toolchain issues occasionally and hacking on our SCC ports, ia64 and hppa. This means that not only do I keep my programming sk1llz from getting rusty through disuse, but I also have reason to keep in touch with other members of the distro team who are both work colleagues and friends.
As one of the people who cares the most about glibc in Ubuntu, I try to make sure that I'm running it wherever possible and making sure that I'm likely to find at least the obvious bugs before others.
So last night I pointed my sources.list to feisty.
This morning there were already two updates: base-files, and debootstrap. linux-libc-dev (the kernel headers) will come along shortly after the new kernel doesn't FTBFS. At the beginning of next week, there will be binutils, libc*, and gcc-4.1. And after that, the merge.
This will be the fourth release in a row that I've ridden from the first files uploaded. At times it's been exciting (leaving for a management meeting in Spain with a non-working X or wireless, not to mention broken cell phone and airplane. All of which were solved by the time I got to Mallorca.)
