For two years, the Biden administration led an international coalition to provide military aid to Ukraine. Majorities in the U.S. and in Congress continue to support Ukraine. Now, a minority of Republicans are preparing to cut it all off.

If they do, the US is at risk of seeming not just like an unreliable ally, but an unserious ally https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/01/us-congress-support-ukraine-war/677256/

@captainepoch @major porque no los dos? :)

I believe Eric would hate me for any attention I call to this (which is really why I don't do this on every corner at any opportunity), but b4 is only really possible because of the work he did on public-inbox. If it weren't for all the effort he's put into it over the past few years, there would be no lore.kernel.org and no b4.

(LF has been a proud sponsor of public-inbox over the past 3 years.)

De retour à Montréal, woohoo.

@captainepoch @major pity? You mean joy? :)

Attempt to leave Detroit #2.

@captainepoch @major estoy lleno de sorpresas. :)

After you learn French, Spanish and other romance languages become more like a bonus side-quest.

@major "pienso" is like the colloquial English "I recon" here. "When I find an apartment, I recon to throw a party" is how that sentence would go in English, and you won't use an "I'll recon" for the same reason you won't use "piensaré".

HTH.

Got stuck in DTW on my way back home. Send cat memes.

Related: if you want to read a balanced piece about #EV operation in very cold weather, here's a useful article:
https://www.torquenews.com/16317/norway-called-and-they-want-us-stop-freaking-out-about-evs-and-winter

the struggle was real

Guess what it's doing in Sou-thern Ca-li-fornia?

@torvalds I see, so it's the Tree that must not be NAMEd.

I am disappointed that the NAME of the 6.8-rc1 release in no way reflects The Tree or The Staycation.

I would like to clarify my earlier comment: I'm not saying LF is not supportive of my work -- in fact, I've always been encouraged to do whatever is necessary to make the Linux development community happy and productive, and there has always been solid backing for it from LF management and fellow IT team members.

However, I do have to manage multiple priorities and my #1 priority remains supporting the LF IT backend infrastructure for kernel.org (plus a few other similarly aligned projects), in addition to managing a small team of fellow IT pros. If I have to choose between working on tooling and working on something that requires attention from the infra side of things, the infra work is always prioritized for practical/operational/security reasons.

So, when I say that "my request hasn't been approved yet" I don't mean it in the sense that someone is telling me not to work on b4 or bugbot -- it just means that we haven't properly reallocated resources to allow me to prioritize tooling work -- yet. To properly request these resources, I need to present a clear vision of what we are trying to accomplish, why it makes sense to work on that (as opposed to, say, just moving things over to some large commercial forge and telling everyone to switch to that), and how this effort helps Linux development in the overall scheme of things. I'm sure we'll get there soon, I'm just explaining why we're not there yet (and hence why some cool stuff I've talked about hasn't made it to b4). :)

@gregkh I'll be happy to split a drink with you over it in S-D, though! :)

@gregkh I don't want to say it wouldn't work for anyone -- it clearly works well for some subsystems. It's just that it's a helluva lot more complicated than throwing together a quick hosted solution and then declaring a flag day of "from this day onward everyone uses this new thing." For every problem we'll solve this way, we'll gain 10 more, not to mention lose some of the more valuable maintainers who are already strained.

@ross not the single-point-of-failure bit. :) I'm watching forgejo's ActivityPub federated features, plus still keeping an eye on radicle.xyz (less so after they chugged the entire pitcher of web3 koolaid at some point in recent history).

@ross both sides have valid and irreconcilable objections -- it's I-don't-want-your-single-point-of-failure-on-proprietary-stack people vs. email-is-terrible-and-lossy-let's-move-out-of-the-nineties-already people.

Sorry for the lack of progress on some of the b4 features -- I've been focusing on finishing up list migrations and planning some long-overdue infra upgrades to happen this year.

Unfortunately, my request to be able to dedicate more time to kernel developer tooling hasn't been approved yet. I need to put together a small report of what we were already able to get done with lore and b4 and what I hope to accomplish if I'm able to dedicate more time to working on it. Without that, there's a perception at LF that I'm just putting band-aids on a process that's beyond fixing and it's better to just move everyone over to GitHub/GitLab instead.

(Yes, I know that 50% of maintainers will vehemently agree with that statement, but I also know that 50% of others will just as vehemently disagree with it. My preferred course of action is iterative changes that would allow integrating forge workflows with the traditional decentralized model without having the whole thing rip apart. Now I just need to put this into words and plans.)