TAG | A conversation with Martin Michlmayr |
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| by Sam Varghese | |
| Thursday, 31 January 2008 | |
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My brother's in UNIX admin, but he's not in the community. My sister, she wasn't interested in computers, so she's doing teaching, stuff like that. I work for HP now. I joined HP in December and we just launched two different initiatives last week. One is called FOSSology which is a set of tools to study free software, source code, and HP has been using that internally to look at licences. People can use it to keep track of their licence applications, and they can see whether there are any conflicts, things like that. The other initiative is called FOSSBazaar and it's a website community for enterprise users who are interested in using source to discuss governance issues. For example, what kind of licence application do you have, where can you get support from, and things like that. I joined HP to work on Community and Content for FOSSBazaar. You were the Debian project leader some time back... I got elected in 2003, and then I did it for two years. So 2003 to 2005, right after Bdale Garbee. I'm still a Debian developer, but not so much a package maintainer. After I stopped being project leader I wanted to do something really different for a while, and I got involved in some technical work for the MIPS and ARM ports. I did some Debian installer work for those platforms. It's quite interesting because there are quite a few inexpensive storage devices coming out on which you can run Debian. I've been enhancing the Debian install process for some of those devices. It's actually quite popular because you can have a small home server for very little money. You've studied release management in detail - haven't the people in Debian shown any interest in implementing your methods? I think that things have changed quite a bit, especially after the 3.1 release, which was a disaster. It was horribly late, and people realised that that was not the way to go about things. We needed to change and there's a much better release process now, and a release management team as well so people know what's going on. There's much more awareness about release management. Things have improved. |
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