my blog

Mes héros

Entries feed

Thursday 1 June 2006

Hero of the day #2

I'm pretty sure people don't know all the hard work Elijah is doing.

He's always here for the GNOME releases: he's creating the modulesets, he's smoketesting the releases and he does all the hard work. But he always tries to avoid sending the announce for a release. I'm glad that he did send the 2.14.2 announce.

And, well, he wouldn't be so unique without his bugzilla skills. 26 points. Isn't this impressive?

Elijah is a rocking release manager! Buy him a drink at GUADEC!

[09:12] | [Mes héros] | [#386]

Hero of the day

I proposed two sessions for GUADEC, but my schedule makes it hard for me to be sure to be available for them.

Enter Quim.

He managed to find volunteers for both sessions while I wasn't able to do so. Sometimes, I'm wondering if he's human.

[09:01] | [Mes héros] | [#385]

Sunday 18 December 2005

Wooohoooooooo! Bugzilla upgrade

Olav is a hero. We now have a new shiny bugzilla: it looks nicer and it has a lot of tiny improvements that change your life. See this mail for more informations.

He shouldn't have to pay any drink at the next GUADEC. Really.

[14:12] | [Mes héros] | [#352]

Monday 23 May 2005

Christian Neumair, hero of bug 116577

A long time ago, in a gala^W^W^WGTK+ was not icon theme-aware. And then, one day, it became aware. It was a nice step, but it needed some more work to be developer-friendly. GTK+ 2.6 brought some developer-friendliness since it was now possible to let GTK+ handle icon theme changes for the windows and images. But there were still some areas where improvements were possible.

Then, Christian Neumair came and said: "I shall fix this". And he fixed it.

Christian, you are my hero of the past week.

[00:27] | [Mes héros] | [#278]

Monday 18 April 2005

James R. Leu, développeur de MPLS pour Linux

Dans le cadre de mon travail, j'utilise MPLS. Pour être plus précis, une des bases de mon travail de recherche est MPLS. Comme nous développons un prototype de logiciel sous Linux, nous utilisons MPLS pour Linux. Le développement de ce patch pour le noyau Linux est presque exclusivement réalisé par James R. Leu (il a été aidé à une époque par des chercheurs de l'ENST Bretagne, mais je crois qu'ils ont arrêté). Rien que pour cela, cet homme est fantastique. Mais ce n'est pas tout.

Ce qui est réellement remarquable avec James est sa patience. Allez lire les archives de la liste de diffusion mpls-linux-general et constatez comme il répond gentiment à presque tous les mails, même les plus idiots. Il aide tous les utilisateurs de son patch et j'ai rarement vu un développeur aussi dévoué. Et quand quelqu'un envoie un mail pour se désabonner de la liste de diffusion, James répond de manière géniale.

James R. Leu est un héros de longue haleine.

[22:36] | [Mes héros] | [#270] | [11 comments]

- page 1 of 2

by Vincent