Last night, I released katapult 0.3.1.4, which is mainly a bugfix release, but well, It’s a release!
We now have katapult working with amarok >=1.4.2 (and with < 1.4.2 still too!)
It was annoying, however, when my ISP decided to drop my connection for half an hour in the middle of pushing the files out to sourceforge.
See The Katapult website for more details.
Packages will be available soon for feisty and sid
Recently Scott James Remnant blogged about his leaving of the Debian Project.
Reading this, I was sad to read how he felt that Debian’s conduct to Ubuntu Developers was wrong, and partly, I agree. But I would also like to say that although there are certain individuals within the Debian Community who are VERY anti-ubuntu, a LOT of them are not. I’ve found quite a few Debian Developers who are more than willing to help out, and although I get shot down sometimes in #debian-devel, and yes, I do ask a lot of stupid questions in a lot of stupid places, generally, the Debian community isn’t as elitist as many people think.
I also think that, although it doesnt come across a lot, the Ubuntu Community can come across as pretty elitist to. From my own experiences, I’ve seen a lot of elitism, there are people who will (no names mentioned) shoot down people for not being the “brightest” of the bunch.
The thing I ask is that everyone remembers that there are new people coming to Linux all the time. There are people from ubuntu who want to try something a little different, and want to try debian, there are people (like me) who want to contribute to both Debian and Ubuntu (but, unlike me, give up trying after their first bad experience of the “inter-distro” tension).
The Ubuntu community on the whole does a superb job in welcoming new people to the fold, as shown by Pete Savage’s latest blog. However, in some cases, it falls below par, just as a lot of other places do (as shown by a coment on Pete Savage’s blog).
I’d like to see more people working towards helping new users get into Linux. There’s a wealth of people out there who just need a little help, and by giving them that little help, they’re more likely to contribute back in the future.
A few of you may know about the “New User Network” in ubuntu - this is a team of “mentors” set up to help new users come to grips with Ubuntu, and Linux. Recently, it was featured on linux.com. I implore everyone reading this who wants to help increase the friendliness of the Ubuntu Community, whether you be a new user yourself, or an old hack, to join the NUN. It’s a great project, and it’s growing rapidly, and I like to think we’re making a difference.
If you’re interested in joining, feel free to talk to myself or nalioth on IRC, or join #ubuntu-nun, or make a post to the ubuntu-nun mailing list
Anyway, that’s my rambling over… now go read some more geek blogs
So, the last couple of days I’ve hopped back onto the iFolder train - and have been doing a lot of work.
It’s quite a scary program really… It’s got so much stuff in it.
I’ve found that to have a basic iFolder Server install it’s 36Mb … big eh ?
Anyways - things are going good - I’ve got libflaim (new and open sourced) built 
and well - the other package (log4net) seems to being wubbed in debian - so will appear for dapper+1 in ubuntu - and debian pretty soon (theres no way I can get iFolder into dapper easily - so I’m not going to try!)
But yeah - hopefully we’ll see some nice iFolder packages being made in the near future - and it’s going to add 4 packages to my list of packages I maintain in debian - yay! (and erk!)
Hopefully - I’ll get a sponsor pretty easily for it - the debian mono team are uber people - and have helped me a lot - plus - It seems a DD is already interested in packaging it - so well - should be able to work with him.
Kudos to the iFolder people though - they work hard on bringing you the best they can - and well - they’re alot better at working with the community than some other projects are
Anyhoo - well - I hope Jorge will be happy about all this.
Gah - now I just need to get my website sorted out