And now, the news:

  • Alpha 3 is out! Read the release notes, and remember this is an alpha – things will break, and it’s not quite ready for everyday use yet, but it’s close. Download here.
  • The Foresight mailing lists are down due to this weekend’s rBuilder maintenance. Something about the MX record being screwy. Hopefully will be back soon. Foresight users outside of the US should see speed improvements in Conary now that rBuilder is in a new data center.
  • No one replied to my thread on the Marketing mailing list about the website that I linked to last week, and what they like in a website and what they don’t. That makes me sad. That might be ok, because:
  • We have another website mockup! Thorsten, a relatively new Foresight user, submitted to the marketing list a potential mockup for the new foresightlinux.org. Combined with Nixternal’s recent mockups, I think we can have some discussion and pick one and start coding.
  • I created a new page on the wiki – Foresight Love. Modeled after GNOME-Love, which are bugs tasked in GNOME’s Bugzilla as “GNOME Love”, which means they’re easy to fix and good for beginners. The goal of this wiki page is similar to that and to the GNOME GHOP, where developers can add to an ever growing to-do list of things that are easy for a new contributor to jump in an do. The page is still a framework, I need to add lots more links within the wiki and tasks. If you are a Foresight developer, and know of some easy tasks someone new could try, add them! This was inspired by Ken updating a page on the wiki last week listing all the trivial bugs in JIRA.
  • Foresight will be at SCALE next month, and now Flourish in Chicago in April. Nice work Kevin.
  • I was introduced to Gobby over the weekend. Gobby is a real time collaborative text editor. While I don’t think it will work for the userguide since we’re already using Mercurial, I think it might work well for things like the release notes, new website copy, or even the newsletter once we start publishing that in a blog and not the wiki. (Writing the wiki markup in Gobby would be kind of a chore). More to come.
  • If you’re looking for me in IRC or on email this week, I’ll be back Friday. Off to a conference for work all week.