Petteri Räty

Caster has asked me a couple of times to blog about being out of the army so here it goes. I got out on 2007-01-05 so I have gotten to enjoy "normal" life for a change. Looking back last year was a great experience. Any way I could write and write about my last year but I think it's OT here. If you ever meet me in person, just ask and you will get endless stories

On the Gentoo front I am nowadays the co-lead of the recruiting project with kloeri. There's some work on going on in that front to renew the quizes to more widely test the knowledge of recruits so let's see how that turns out. Hopefully we will continue to have a steady flow of good new people coming in this year too.

Next weekend it's going to be FOSDEM. It's fun to get together with the various Java packagers from the other distributions and there should be Sun people around too. Maybe I can push them towards fixing https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158720 and we could get sun-jdk-1.6 marked stable at some point. It has some nice fixes. For example the fonts are much nicer with subpixel hinting etc. See you in Brussels.