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1. Bazaar: A retrospective

   For the last 7 years I've been involved in the Bazaar project. Since I am slowly stepping down, I recently wrote a retrospective on the project as I experienced it for the last 7 years.

   Thanks to a few kind people for proofreading earlier drafts; if you spot any ...

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2. Samba 4.0.0, finally

   This afternoon we released version 4.0.0 of Samba. This is a significant milestone, and I'm very proud of the result. Samba 4 is the first version that can be a domain controller in an Active Directory domain.

   We embarked on this journey almost a decade ago - the ...

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3. Documentation

   From LWN's weekly edition:

   Documentation is the sort of thing that will never be great unless someone from outside contributes it (since the developers can never remember which parts are hard to understand).

   —Avery Pennarun

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4. Back to blogging

   Hello Internet. After a long silence and several fights with Serendipity I am back.

   The contents from my old Serendipity install have been migrated to restructuredText in pelican. Among other things, this means I can now get rid of the last PHP install I had left on my server.

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5. Last day at Canonical

   This Friday will be my last day at Canonical.

   It has been a lot of fun working here. There is so much I have learned in the last three years. I'm going to miss my colleagues.

   Over the last couple of months I have slowly stepped down from my ...

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6. Summer of Code 2011

   The Samba team is once again participating in the Summer of Code this year. This year we have 4 students working on various projects related to Samba.

   This year I am mentoring Dhananjay Sathe, who is improving the GTK+ frontends for Samba. In particular, he is making it possible to ...

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7. libapache2-mod-bzr

   During the last two days I hacked together a Bazaar module for Apache. This module makes it possible to easily enable the Bazaar smart server for Bazaar branches. It also can display a simple placeholder page for Bazaar branches without working tree. It's surprisingly easy to write Apache modules ...

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8. On the way to Samba 4: Part 2

   It's been more than a month since the last status update on my Samba 4 work - much more than the two weeks I promised.

   During the holidays I finally managed to release the new alpha of Samba 4, as well as releases of some of our companion libraries (tdb ...

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9. On the way to Samba 4: Part 1

   After Samba XP 2008 Andrew and I started keeping a wiki page with our bi-weekly goals and achievements for Samba 4. Because planning in a Free Software project is hard (time availability and priorities change over time, and other volunteers are equally unpredictable) we called this our "Fantasy Page"; it ...

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