Back in 2005, we decided to use Sub­ver­sion scm for the source code man­age­ment in the Carpe Noctem pro­ject. This decision sur­vived the last four years but based on what we exper­i­enced dur­ing this time – we even man­aged to some­how blown up our repos­it­or­ies –, the team decided to switch over to git after the World Cham­pi­on­ships 2009. We’ll have to see how things work out now and if people man­age to come to grips with the new system.

Today, I tried to merge some changes for the new Spica ver­sion. As I main­tained a sep­ar­ate repos­it­ory for this pur­pose, I wasn’t sure about how well git merges these data. Sur­pris­ingly, it went just smooth. Only about eight simply con­flicts needed to be solved. This res­ul­ted in my first lightly more com­plex git tree. Looks inter­est­ing in gitk :)

git his­tory

Dur­ing the Han­nover Messe I gave an inter­view to some­body I actu­ally don’t remem­ber any­more. Some guys from the organ­isa­tion or the spon­sors or whatever, who­ever. Yes­ter­day then Hendrik came across a video on You­Tube where a short part of this inter­view is shown. Hor­rible to see myself talking… :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kNaBLjIG70

Oh, it’s so true: Page 3, The secret life of a researcher.

This morn­ing, Ren­ate (the sec­ret­ary of our lab) broke in on me with this birth­day cake. That actu­ally was the per­fectly the right choice as I love these sweet and Gummibär-like things :)

My Birth­day Cake :)

Here’s a more close-up view… Thanks a lot all of you, even though some of you have never seen me before :)

My birth­day cake close up

No post for more than one month. Well, I cur­rently simply don’t have the time to do some­thing excit­ing :). For now, the new Ubuntu Breezy Back­ports repos­it­ory must suf­fice. It con­tains the Mono pack­ages from Ubuntu Dap­per, com­piled for the latest Breezy on i386. There are also pack­ages for Anja on i386 and AMD64 avail­able. All the pack­ages are needed by our robots.

Please add the fol­low­ing lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list if you’re inter­ested in the back­ports or Anja:

deb http://npw.net/debian unstable main
deb-src http://npw.net/debian unstable main

The pack­ages are not signed since they were just recompiled!