OLS 2005 - day 6
Today was a very short day at OLS. The first talk began at 12:00 and the last ended at about 16:00. I started the day with Matt Makall’s talk on Mercurial, which was the new topic instead of the planed Netpoll. That two hour tutorial was great. Sure he started with basics, but he included certain information that made it interesting, like what’s the plan for certain areas of the program, etc. The second talk was about sysfs. Shortly after that, the Keynote was presented by Dave Jones:
The content of his talk can be summarized by:
- Bug reporting in the OS community sucks
- He likes monkeys
He told a story which ended with him waking up from a nightmare and telling his significant other “my monkey crashed my spaceship”.
Then I got a copy of the proceedings and went to the hotel. There I promptly started hacking on Mercurial. I’m trying to make the web interface nicer. Git/Cogito has a web interface, gitweb, which is very nice looking — so, I’m copying the design of gitweb and grafting it onto Mercurial’s hgweb. For the most part, the peices are very similar but here and there, it is different enough to take some time to change. I hope to finish it by the end of Monday, so that I can send a patch to the mercurial mailing list.
At approximately 19:15, Shawn and I left the hotel for the party at Black Thorn Cafe. The whole place was reserved for OLS people. It was quite crowded, but there was a lot of interesting chatter. As the evening progressed, people were getting more and more drunk. It was quite interesting, to see that — all the high up people (Dave Jones, et.al.) were quite sober (I think that they try to remain sober because their words matter a lot.) At 2:30 the cafe people threw everyone out because they were closing. We got back to the hotel at 3:03. Then we started hacking on stuff…I kept on hacking on Mercurial, and Shawn worked on something, I forgot what it is, but I remember that it involves creating a Kate (KDE Advanced Text Editor) module. I went to bed at 5:00. Yay!