Justin “flux_control” Boffemmyer has officially started his term as Cauldron Lead (previously held by Karsten “BearPerson” Behrmann) and to go with it, he has posted to the sm-discuss mailing list that he has a working test ISO, but is minimally tested.

“I have been struggling with a few udev issues as the ISO system transitions from the ISO initrd to the real ISO filesystem, which is why there hasn’t been good news from me. However, I think I just figured out the (hopefully) last of those problems, and if so then the ISO should be ready to go tonight. I’ll send another mail to the list to let everyone know.

On the plus side, I did manage to test some of the ability of the new ISO for autodetecting hardware, and it seems to go well. Of course, that means that it was only minimally tested, since I don’t have a farm of machines to test on here. This is something I would really like tested once I release.”

David “dkowis” Kowis notified that he has finished the upgrade of our bugs.sourcemage.org bug tracker software to bugzilla 3.0.4. After upgrading and adding a horde of optional/required dependency spells for bugzilla, he is now asking for developers and users to use the tracker and to report any problems found.

“I’ve upgraded bugzilla to the latest stable version.
I don’t think it created any problems. We’re on the default theme, but that’s okay. All the spiffy graphing thingies seem to work. All my queries seem to work.

Poke around with it and make sure it does the things you need it to do.

Tangent:
I think I’m going to make an Adminstration category in bugzilla for ways to poke the admins ;) (it’d be helpful to me anyway) And it lets us log when you guys ask for stuff :)”

More details from the Source Mage European Meeting have been posted: The meeting will occur from August 17th to the 24th in Bonn, Germany. More specific details were announced. See the European Meeting wiki page for more details and a list of activities and atendees.

Jaka “lynx” Kranjc has added a new library, libtime, to devel sorcery. This library adds “how long it took to cast” functionality to gaze, which in my personal opinion as a developer is quite handy to detect unnecessary steps among other things. This library seems to be based on a patch submitted by Jaka himself on January 2006.

That’s all folks, thanks for your attention!

Grimoire lead Arwed “alley_cat” von Merkatz has just posted to the mailing list that stable-rc 0.23 has been cut in the repositories and tarballs are being propagated to the mirrors. Announcement follows.

“Hi everyone,

stable-rc 0.23 is cut and ready for testing. There’s the usual wiki page for those who want to help testing.

The release is on time and will be released on July 15th if nothing major gets in the way.

Tarballs have been created and are on the master server, should make it to the mirrors in a few hours.
The chroot for x86 will be done by me during the next days. Volunteers for a x86_64 chroot are welcome.

As always don’t forget to file any bugs against our bug tracker so we can fix and integrate any bugs/issues.

Let’s give this new stable-rc a good testing!”