New Debian JP Project Leader Yutaka Niibe appoints Junichi Uekawa as sub leader and Fumitoshi Ukai (me) as secretariat. The following board of directors manages the project by end of March 2006.

• Leader: Yutaka Niibe
• sub leader: Junichi Uekawa
• secretariat: Fumitoshi Ukai
• Auditor: Yasuhiro Araki

Votings of Debian JP Project leader and auditor of this year have been closed.

Yutaka Niibe is designated as leader, and ARAKI Yasuhiro is designated as auditor.

Hmm, it must be Ninja!

After FSIJ/SEA monthly seminar, we (jet, hironobu, iida, shindo, kkojima, mikio, matuno and I) went to a Izakaya at Sendagaya. We discussed a lot of topics about free software, for example, how we can promoto free software development for students or in University.

After interim report of Summerdojo 2005, SEA/FSIJ montly seminar is held. This montly seminar topic is

• Fighting "a lot of projects" probem
  • recruiting source
  • category distribution
  • plog
  • category review

Since 3 projects accepted on July 7th, we have interim report meeting of summerdojo2005 at Tokyo Metoropolitan Gymnasium in Sendagaya, Tokyo.

• Enhance gonzui language supports by Kenichi Ishibashi
  • develop language module (LangScan module) used in indexer
  • split source code into tokens according to program language's syntax rule
  • target: Scheme, Emacs Lisp, C#
  • use GNU flex for lexical analysis + Ruby scripts
  • status
    • Scheme - committed into upstream
    • Emacs Lisp - some
    • C# - not yet
• mod_estraier by Shinichiro Hamaji
  • search any html processed by Apache
  • combined with mod_proxy
  • http://modestraier.sourceforge.net/
  • implemented as apache filter module
  • use Node API of HyperEstraier
  • use tidy to parse html instead of hyper estraier's built-in parser
  • mod_estraier_search
  • TODO
    • thread?
    • autotoolize
    • encoding detect
    • additional properties by using tidy? (e.g. body color)
    • other content-type than html
    • mod_estraier_search to be google compatible ? (link: related: site:)
    • Win32 binary
• malic: realtime face recognition application using Malib and csuFaceIdEval by Atsushi Suga
  • initial goal: screensaver by face direction
  • system
    • MAlib - framework to movie processing
    • OpenCV - face position recognizer and other image processing
    • csuFaceIdEval - authentication or face parts recognizer
  • malicrecog, malicsampling
  • sample application?
    • animation AI responding with expression and/or glance
    • xeyes following glance
    • medusa game
  • status
    • face parts: eye only now
    • authentication - not yet

I presented my books (2 CVS/WinCVS handbook, 1 Pragmatic Subversion) to developers. Google presented novelty goods (T-shirt, note, pen with Google logo).

After ceremony of awarding an honor and social gathering, momokuri, kazekiri, satoru, komatsuh, tkng, kzk and I went to Tsuki no Shizuku, Akihabara and enjoy talking.

I got home at 00:25.

I've got an OSS award from Japan OSS promotion forum. There are ceremony of awarding an honor and social gathering at Akihabara Convention Hall. This is first OSS award, planned as part of North-East OSS forum (China, Korea and Japan). In Japan 4 developers receive this award:

• Fumitoshi Ukai - me, debian developer
• Hirokazu Takahashi - kernel developer, VA Linux Japan
• Satoru Takabayashi - author of Namazu, QuickML, Gonzui
• Yukihiro - Matz - Matsumoto - creator of Ruby programming language

As a prize, we got note PC from sponsor companies: NEC, IBM, Fujitsu and Hitachi. I got NEC's strong PC.

We start voting of Debian JP Project leader and auditor of this year.

After having pasta at Tapas & Tapas, hirabayashi (hyperestraier), higuchi (gentype), suzuki (picolab), takahashi (coops) and I went to Vingt2 at Shibuya and enjoyed talking.

After 2nd day of Exploratory Software Project: final review meeting, hirabayashi (hyperestraier), higuchi (gentype), suzuki (picolab), takahashi (coops) and I went to Tapas & Tapas in Shibuya.

Today is 2nd day of final review meeting of 4 PMs (ichiji, ukai, kato and nakasima) of Exploratory Software Project 2004 2nd half, at Nagai Memorial Palace in Shibuya.

• proposal of 3D GUI style and consolidate development environment
• digital kaleidoscope
• PUI(Paper User Interface)
• groupware that integrates mail, web and meeting vertically
• agent-base social simulation language - SOARS
• MMOG infrastructure using ovarlay network
• extend memory using activity history on computer
• Winmostar: molecule computing support software

After social gathering , hirabayashi (hyperestraier), eto (qwik), katayama (bioruby), higuchi (gentype), ikeda (secanet) and I went to The Dugliner's Cafe & Pub, Shibuya and enjoyed drinking and talking.

I got home at 00:50.

After 1st day of Exploratory Software Project: final review meeting, we have a social gathering meeting at Hananoren.

This afternoon, there are final review meeting of 4 PMs (ichiji, ukai, kato and nakasima) of Exploratory Software Project 2004 2nd half, at Nagai Memorial Palace in Shibuya.

• Hyper Estraier
• protocol program generator from simple specification description
• intelligent 3D shape browser
• knowledge information management base to extend human memories
• genome RNA database search system using probablistic context free grammer.
• next-generation operating system implemented by CLI.
• Web Database Server GWS

Recently, I got several bug reports including FTBFS (Bug#323501, Bug#323519, both of which just missed build-dependency). I fixed these and upload it as 0.5.4-2.

Tatsuya Kinoshita packaged so I reviewed it as a sponsor. I noticed that there are two bugs in his package. One is missing build-dependency to semi and flim. The other is bashism in debian/postinst, that is use -a of [ command. I fixed these two things and upload it.

New upstream of hyperestraier has been released. Many bugs has been fixed. API/ABI changes make shlib version bump up (libestraier2->libestraier3). I've uploaded hyperestraier 0.5.4-1.

For sarge, you can find 0.5.4-0sarge1 on http://people.debian.org/~ukai/hyperestraier/

After Comic Market 68, Ijoined members of AIWIL and went to Spaghetti DON'A at Shinbashi.

This term of Debian JP Project board of director's term of office was already ended by March 2005, but we failed to elect next leader, because vote result was unexpectedly tie. We planned to vote again, but because of several reasons, such as vacation of condidates and/or lack of time due to Linux Conference 2005, FSIJ annual general meeting, LinuxTag 2005 and DebConf5.

Current project secretariat (knok) was exhausted, so he transfered the duties to me. So, I took over secretariat's duties temporarily, summarized current situation and rescheduled the election. I also set some new rules in case of some problems. So, We'll have next board of directors by September.

After SEA&FSIJ seminar, we moved to China Quick at Sendagaya and discussed about next version of snapshot.debian.net (USB 300GB*8 RAID5, which will be ready soon) and next next version of snapshot.debian.net (3U 15*SATA disks available case with Athlon64*2). We also discussed compliancy about organization around free software and open source software, some of them probably would not do clerical job correctly, such as deducting tax from income at source or so.

Anyway, today's topic (about debian/sarge and debconf5) was postponed by Typhoon (but it was not so terrible weather actually at that day) and today we had terrible weather with heavy rain and thunder. possibly, debian/sarge or some of us cursed, or it might be reaction of very nice weather at debconf5...

In today's montly seminar, which was postponed from July 26th due to Typhoon 7th (Banyan) coming Tokyo, Kenshi Muto introducted Debian GNU/Linux sarge, mainly its release management, how sarge was released.

After his talk, I talked about DebConf5.

kazehakase 0.2.9-2 fixes Bug#321815, and I upload it as sponsor for Hidetaka Iwai.

I posted announcement of interim report meeting of summerdojo2005, which is held just before August SEA&FSIJ montly seminar.

Noticed that content update process of http://jla.linux.or.jp/ failed since the server was ugpraded to sarge.

It is because some ruby scripts used to update content didn't work correctly with sarge's ruby.

• required 'erb/compile', but it was disappeared. Use 'erb' instead.
• required 'erb/stringio', but it was also disappeared. Use 'stringio' instead. there are no alternatives of ERbStrIO.as_stdout.

      compiler = ERB::Compiler.new(nil)
      compiler.put_cmd = 'print'
      :
  
      @r = []
      eval(e, binding)
      r = @r.join
      :
  
    def print(*s)
      @r += s
    end
  

• warnings against 'r.push(yield year)'. replace it as 'r.push(yield(year))'

I've heard ftp-master rejected libdb* packages for ruby1.9.

This means, we can't use any berkeley db in ruby1.9, so that debian is not suitable to develop future ruby package. For example, gonzui requires ruby1.9 for better support (ruby source parser is available on ruby1.9), but it requires libdb4.2 or later, so that debian is not good platform to run gonzui.

I feel regret at ftp-master's wrong decisions.

New upstream version of kazehakase was released and Hidetaka Iwai packaged it. It depends on mozilla >= 1.7.11, so it won't run on sarge any more.

mhc is the last one of my fix needed of debconf dependency. The fix of debconf dependency is trivial. Use ${misc:Depends}.

Anyway, other concern exists in mhc, ruby1.6 dependency. Currently, ruby1.8 is the default version of ruby in debian and ruby1.6 is considered as obsoleted. The reason mhc depended on ruby1.6 is that gemcal uses libgtk-ruby, which is only available for ruby1.6. For ruby1.8, there are libgtk2-ruby. The gtk2 API differs from gtk, so it is not so easy to port gtk ruby script to gtk2.

With Ruby-GNOME2 API Reference and try and error, I finally ported gemcal and mhc-gtk.rb to gtk2.

What I need to do is:

• change "require 'gtk'" to "require 'gtk2'", of course.
• Need "Gtk.init" call.
• In gtk2, text string should be UTF-8.
• Gtk::WINDOW_TOPLEVEL renamed to Gtk::Window::TOPLEVEL
• Use Gtk::TextView instead of Gtk::Text. get_text method is renamed text method. signal would come through its buffer.
• Gtk::WINDOW_DIALOG disappeared. Inherit Gtk::Dialog instead.
• no more set_delay method in Gtk::Tooltips
• Use Pango::FontDescription instead of Gtk::Font and use set_font_desc instead of set_font.
• Gtk::CList is disappeared. Use Gtk::ListStore, Gtk::TreeView and Gtk::TreeColumnView
• appending to list has been changed. append method of Gtk::ListStore returns Gtk::TreeIter so that you can add new entry to it.
• Use Gtk::Image instead of Gtk::Pixmap
• set_usize method is deprecated?
• border_width(n) method is deprecated. Use set_border_width(n) instead.

Thus, mhc-utils no longer requires ruby1.6 and libgtk-ruby. mhc-utils 0.25.1+20050120-2 depends on ruby1.8 and libgtk2-ruby.

Goodbye ruby1.6!

 # apt-get remove libruby1.6

I also fix ca-certificates of wrong dependency against debconf. Some transations are included in this upload.

Before mass bug filing on packages that are blocking use of cdebconf, I tried to fix my packages.

hotplug is one of such package. In short, it can easily be fixed by changing debconf dependency with ${misc:Depends}, so that dh_installdebconf set proper dependency.

I looked over bug reports and fixed some trivial bugs. Most impact in this upload is that NET_AGENT_POLICY is deprecated by this version, instead net.agent use ifupdown's "allow" mechanism (Bug#303383).

Finally, all mirror has been recovered, so ftp.debian.or.jp is available now.

New upstream of hyperestraier has been released. Major changes since last release is Ruby node API. I've uploaded hyperestraier 0.5.3-1 which adds libestraier-ruby1.8 package (and libestraier-java at 0.5.2).

For sarge, you can find 0.5.3-0sarge1 on http://people.debian.org/~ukai/hyperestraier/