Mancoosi Weblog

The 2010 edition of the Free and Open Source Developers European Meeting (FOSDEM 2010) will take place on the weekend of February 6 and 7 in Brussels, Belgium. This is probably the biggest F/OSS event in Europe, with expected more than 4000 participating F/OSS developers from all over the world, and mancoosi will of course be there.

This year will see for the first time the Distribution DevRoom with presentations from ten different FOSS distributions and projects. The mancoosi project is one of the officially participating projects (and the only one who is not a distribution editor itself). There will be three talks from mancoosi in the Distribution DevRoom on sunday afternoon:

• Cross-distro dependency resolution, by Stefano Zacchiroli
• Transactionally Protected Package Management, by Jeff Johnson
• Transactional roll-back, by John Thomson

Besides the participation in the Distribution DevRoom, mancoosi also contributes a lightning talk by Boriss Mejias on BeerNet.

Further details about mancoosi at fosdem 2010 can be found on the Mancoosi wiki. For exact times and rooms please check the FOSDEM schedule as these are still subject to modification.

Since this morning, it is possible to follow on Twitter the svn commits on the Mancoosi forge.

The log of every committ is sent to the user mancoosi (channels #mancoosi #svn)

Thanks to the sysadmin at UCL for setting this up for us.

As Boriss points out, there is also a RSS feeder for the people who don't follow tweets, and for those days when the Fail Whale appears too often.

https://gforge.info.ucl.ac.be/rss/mancoosi.xml https://gforge.info.ucl.ac.be/rss/mancoosi-admin.xml

The Mancoosi team met in Nice on January 7th and 8th 2010.

This was a full immersion project meeting, which mixed plenary tracks presenting advances in the different areas of the project, and a wealth of small team working group sessions devoted to important subtopics related to the Domain Specific Languages, rollback strategies, and package metadata debunking. It was also the occasion to run a first, internal solver competition on real upgrade data coming from our industrial partners: more on this in a following post.

Our project has now a nice leaflet, that you can see here, and even download at high resolution.

It presents the project in a nutshell, higlhighting the virtuous circles we are creating among users, developers, distribution editors and researchers.

Stay tuned for exciting news from Mancoosi over the next months!