Play and Work
Tollef's been doing some good low-hanging-fruit picking in the dpkg bug list over the past week and made me realise how little I've actually been able to do on it recently.

Gave myself a bit of a kick, and managed to grab a handful of easy bugs myself; not to mention finally catching up with all the translation and manpages updates (I hope). Had to haul out my Dutch dictionary to try and merge the mess of patches for that language, but I think I got it all right.

Put it all together, along with the conffile bug that I fixed some time ago that really should be in sarge, and rolled a release. That killed about 42 bugs, only 600 odd to go.

Jeff did some pretty rad work on Planet, coming up with an extremely elegant way to merge consecutive articles by the same author together. Of course, I couldn't let him get ahead of me again so I updated Planet Debian to use the new juice and hacked on Planet myself for a few hours and added the long-missing per-template configuration (so you can have differing numbers of items in each template) and a fancy-examples directory containing something prettier than the default examples.

I've been dropping behind a bit with my Debian work recently, and despite "taking over" pkgconfig haven't yet had time to get the grips with that either.

This lack of time has been largely due to my new job; which is taking a fair bit of my hacking energy at the moment. We had our first major face-to-face meeting a couple of weeks ago, and I got to meet some of my co-workers for the first time though I knew them all by reputation.

I too have to work out how to properly balance Work and Play, so neither interferes with the other despite the high overlap in some areas. Hopefully as I get used to the new work pattern, things will balance out.