Debian: Andrew Cater of Social Issues, Daniel Pocock on Deaths, and Emanuele Rocca Enabling Kernel Settings in Debian
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Andrew Cater: Lessons from (and for) colleagues - and, implicitly, how NOT to get on
I have had excellent colleagues both at my day job and, especially, in Debian over the last thirty-odd years. Several have attempted to give me good advice - others have been exemplars. People retire: sadly, people die. What impression do you want to leave behind when you leave here?
Belatedly, I've come to realise that obduracy, sheer bloody mindedness, force of will and obstinacy will only get you so far. The following began very much as a tongue in cheek private memo to myself a good few years ago. I showed it to a colleague who suggested at the time that I should share it to a wider audience.
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Daniel Pocock ☛ Daniel Pocock: Deaths at the Southern 80 ski race, WICEN volunteering
There are thousands of messages about these people hidden on mailing lists like debian-private (it has been leaked quite widely now). As far as I can tell, nobody told the coroners, employers or families of the victims that we have all these messages about the toxic culture of harassment and abuse.
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Linux IT ☛ Emanuele Rocca: Enabling Kernel Settings in Debian
This time it’s about enabling new kernel config options in the official Debian kernel packages. A few dependencies are needed to run the various scripts used by the Debian kernel folks, as well as to build the kernel itself:
apt install git gpg python3-debian python3-dacite apt build-dep linux