doorstops and more
The reality of supporting m68k is that while some architectures never have troubles keeping up with new packages, others repeatedly lag because of obsolete hardware or broken a build toolchain or kernel. Now it's arm (m68k appears to be improving), a few weeks ago it was mipsel. As long as my packages are portable I think I have the right to be pissed off if they cannot enter testing because the buildds for some toy architectures are broken.
Currently the lists do not receive too much spam, but the BTS (or at least my ~200 open bugs) gets a lot more, and it's not uncommon for a message to be delayed many hours because of post-SMTP spam filtering. It still has not be explained why debian cannot use reputable DNSBLs with no relevant collateral damage like DSBL, SBL and XBL.
BugWatcher looks like a good idea implemented in the wrong language. I hate java and I do not like the idea of installing the multimegabyte runtime needed. I wonder if we could benefit from some kind of web API interface to the BTS.
Is anybody packaging HAL? udev may end up interacting with it soon.
Yesterday I added a FOAF file to my blog web site and finished the Usenet backend for my blog2news gateway. Doing this with Bryar was really easy, most of the code is a simple tagsoup HTML to text converter.
BTW, it would be cool if people whose native language uses a non-latin script used it along the latin transcription in their RSS files. The aggregator appears to be already using UTF-8.