Today at 11:04am (GMT, or Greenwich Time), Debian developer Erich Schubert reported about a bug in Serendipity. According to his blog, it took him 10 minutes to close it, and he reported it to the guys over at Serendipity.
And at 12:09pm (GMT), another Debian developer named Thijs Kinkhorst had uploaded a corrected version from upstream to Debian unstable, and he already found out that Sarge and Etch were not affected.
75 minutes - wow. You guys rock. As does free software in general.
Found via the planet. Reported to LXer.
Update: it’s 21:30 (or 9:30pm) GMT now, and now I also see it in SecurityFocus. Is Free (Libre) Open Source Software cool, or is it cool? A turnaround time of some 10 hours only, from discovering to fixing to reporting to an improved version ready for download, plus a security warning for all those who care. Now that is what I call professional.
We are standing on the shoulders of giants. I know I repeat myself - I said that on LinuxTag 2k6 already 
11:04 _am_ to 12:09 _pm_ is 13h 5m or 785 mins if you so please. is this your typo or did you overlook this?
Oh sorry - we are living in 24h land here.
It was really only 65 minutes, plus the 10 minutes it took Erich to fix the bug and report it back to upstream.
My fault if I got that am/pm thingy wrong; sorry.
11:04 AM (in the morning) to 12:09 AM (in the morning, in other words, shortly after midnight) is 13h 5m.
11:04am to 12:09pm is 65 min, just as reported, you were right the first time.
no the am/pm thing is right, 11:04 am to 12:09 pm is only 65 minutes, 12:09pm is 9 minutes after midday
Yep, I asked my wife (who is from Malaysia, and studied in the US), and she confirmed that I was right, too. 12:09pm is 9 minutes past noon, like I thought.
Thanks, people.
Hmmm — Obviously the open source guys have no concept of SOX accountability. Why I, myself, opened a trouble ticket on July third for an application that I support for [nameless big institution]. I changed five lines of code. I go to production tomorrow, Friday, August 10th. Most of that time was taken up by multiple SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley for you uninitiated) reviews, approvals, signoffs, etc., etc. so that we can be sure that the thing is fixed right the first time. You keyboard cowboys who just slam out fixes? No wonder the corporate world doesn’t take you seriously!!!
Well, Disgruntled,
from my work as a volunteer firefighter I know:
- first you stop the fire
- then comes the analysis
You could transfer that principle to many other examples IMHO. And for the part of “No wonder the corporate world doesn’t take you seriously!!!”:
I don’t know how big *your* corporation is - but companies like Google (some estimated 500,000 Linux servers), or the Wikipedia (which will contain the world’s biggest database and knowledge base one day) take us *very* serious.
But thanks for your comment, anyway.
Kind regards,
Wolfgang
Yes, the only linux distribution I’d ever install is debian… but I obviously prefer OpenBSD… I’m curious whether your page will show my OS
Well Pau,
seems that it does. Regarding the BSDs: I’ve toyed around with FreeBSD, and yes, it is nice - and from what I hear OpenBSD is, too.
To have a good non-Linux kernel is one thing; to have the approved Debian tools is another. I think if I would try anything non-Linux again, it would probably be Debian GNU/kFreeBSD, or even a Solaris kernel under Debian.
cheers,
wjl
Hi,
yes, I agree but, please do not compare freebsd to openbsd, even if it has the “bsd” on it too…
I have also tried the debian bsd in the freebsd flavour. There’s also a netbsd one. But really, after much thinking and trying, I could conclude that only OpenBSD satisfies my needs. It’d be too long to explain here why. But you can have a look here:
http://www.aei.mpg.de/~pau/zen_process_obsd.html
I am aware of the debian tools but I swear you: I have not missed them since I moved.
Cheers,
Pau
PS: I am so sorry. That’s not the page. That’s a howto to set up a dual-boot with linux. The site I was talking about is
http://www.aei.mpg.de/~pau/linux_bsd.html
mmmh… I think the previous post got lost… anyway, in that page you’ll find out everything, no need to further elaborate here
Good that you mentioned it, Pau,
found your comment somewhere in Akismet - a first timer for a false positive there.
Thanks for commenting - I will certainly look at it.