– I know what I did this week –
It looks like I have been on rampage when I look back at whats been happening the past week. List below:
Fedora Electronic Lab Updates:
- We were breaking our heads with this long standing open bug on Alliance VLSI CAD toolset. Decided to gather all my bandwidth to resolve this one quickly and it turned out to be a fault in lesstif library which is used by most of the Alliance tools. So registered Bug #457469 and now awaiting updates from its maintainer. *phew*
- My Love affair with Licenses seems to be continuing, as bad news arrived for SystemC and electric also seems be not in good shape to make it into official Fedora repos. But at least “electric” has some hopes if more effort is put in.
Ubuntu updates:
- Xcircuit is a very nice program for drawing publishable-quality electrical circuit schematic diagrams and related figures. There is a crash reported here. Decided to take it up and squash it and then this mail from upstream follows in a couple of days. Feels good!
- Avagadro has been accepted into Debian Testing. It should be nice to have it in Ubuntu. So bug #253324 is raised and awaiting a MOTU to sponsor the package.
- As mentioned before, my love affair with the licenses continued into gResistor as well. But this time Lady luck was with me and upstream promptly responded to fix the issue.
- Did a few bug triages like rising sync requests, closing fixed bugs etc.
Hope the good run continues..
PS: I will be at mukt.in this Sunday, August 3rd 2008 giving a demo on “Free Software Electronics Laboratory”. If someone is in or around Hyderabad, India at that time, catch me in Osmania University.