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Julia's Release Process

People involved in the day-to-day development of a project tend to become so familiar with its rhythm and process that they internalize it and it feels like everyone must just _know_ how each stage unfolds. Of course, from the outside looking in it's not so obvious. So I thought it might be helpful t...

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Kate is 20 years old

Kate just turned 20 today! As announced before, Kate turned twenty today. When did it start? Here again my initial request to the KWrite maintainer about my work on a 'MDI KWrite' later called Kate (sorry, German & spelling mistakes): From: Cullmann Christoph <crossfire@babylon2k.de> To: digisnap@cs.tu-berlin.de…

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Leaving Debian

Today's story is an insider view of Debian. One of the oldest Linux distributions and probably one of the longest-running volunteer-based open-source projects. Joey Hess is my guest, and he dedicated significant parts of his adult life to working on Debian. He's going to share what that was like. The good and the bad…