The usual IT babble
Gentoo
Gentoo packages are gone now!
Jan 25th
Just like I announced last week, my binary packages repository is now history. I’m gonna remove the redirections from lighttpd and DNS in a few.
packages.barfoo.org is going away
Jan 18th
For those of you, still using my binary packages. It’s just a waste of disk space for me (6.8G to be exact), so I decided to remove them. I’m gonna give people one week to grab yourself a copy. I’m gonna keep the bashrc and all the other stuff I wrote back when I was still interested in binary packages, but the binary packages are gonna vanish!
Again, grab yourself a copy if you need them, at some point next week (probably on Friday), I’m simply gonna rm -rf them.
Looong time
Jun 16th
Well, it’s been a loong time since I first thought about retiring (yes, I know that #-dev’s topic states “developer blogs” ain’t for announcing important things, but my blog has to do for this; if not, I don’t care anymore 
).
But I think it’s about time for me to leave. I haven’t done much lately, I’ve been soo damn busy with work these last months like I would never have imagined. I gave it some more thought, and I finally got to the point (again I might add) where all just annoys and/or frustrates me.
All the damn bickering, the childish behaviour Josh talked about (“noooo, that’s my TOY!“), the constant abuse of power (hey #-chat, #-kde ops). I thought most of us would at least try and behave like the elderish people we are (well besides the few of us, who really are children by law’s definition – hey there welp, omp, keytoaster 
). But I guess that’s just been an imaginary thought I had .. *shrug*
Retiring people
May 28th
I’m not sure whether or not I blogged about this before, but here it is just for me to actually remember what, in which order I need to do. If you got the list in form of a csv file, simply do the following:
$ wget -q http://tinyurl.com/4atkz7 -O - | grep "(" | cut -d'(' -f2 | \
cut -d')' -f1 | awk '{ print tolower($1) }' > retirements
$ for developer in $( < retirements )
do retire.py --metadata $developer /cvs/gentoo-x86/ | \
diffstat > ~/metadata.$developer
done
That’ll give you a detailed list of which metadata.xml need to be changed.
metadata.xml (the third)
Mar 14th
So Petteri came up with a nifty python script (local), which in return spit out this. Which generated a rather complete list (local), that looks like this:
700: perl
569: maintainer-needed
128: media-video
126: xemacs
47: sound
32: ha-cluster
32: crypto
19: desktop-misc
16: netmon
15: forensics
13: web-apps
10: pam-bugs
8: vserver-devs
8: mips
8: embedded
8: app-backup
8: apache-bugs
8: alsa-bugs
7: net-im
7: kde
6: tcltk
6: media-tv
6: dev-embedded
5: voip
5: theology
5: samba
5: net-p2p
5: freedesktop-bugs
4: sparc
4: java
4: graphics
2: net-mail
2: ldap-bugs
2: kernel
2: fonts
2: cpp
1: x11
1: wxwidgets
1: www-servers
1: tex
1: shell-tools
1: sgml
1: sci
1: qmail-bugs
1: python
1: proaudio
1: media-optical
1: kerberos
1: hp-cluster
1: amd64