Not that lazy as I seem to be

I got a great bug report with a lot of fixes targeting errors I had in my use of the English language.

There is also a sad side to that, since it seems to indicate that my knowledge of the English language is much worse than I thought it was. And I know that since I have to deal with a third language, Swedish, my English did definitely not become better.

Analytics tells me that the BitBake guide has had more than three and a half thousand page views within the first 6 months of this year. And that the Avg. Time on Page is nearly 8 minutes, which indicates that some people do indeed read and work with the guide.
This is much more than expected and it makes me really happy and excited! And of course my English should not be an impediment for people that work with this document. That’s why I am really thankful for this type of bug reports, even if it means some additional work in my spare time.

Some news about sbbdep and libsl3.

It is already some weeks ago that I implemented a new feature in sbbdep. Now it’s possible to apply a filter that suppresses the reporting of some packages. I also got a bug report for sbbdep. There was a condition in the data it processed from which I thought it could not be possible. So an assert was triggered. The good thing was that I had this assert, so I did exactly know the code location. It took just some time to find out what could have been the cause for this kind of special input data.

Now I have to prepare a new release, which has to be done as soon as possible. Since a few days back there is also Slackware 14.2, so this is nice timing.

Then I did some changes in libsl3, mostly infrastructure related, but not only. Now I have to think about how to deal with the situation. Over short or long it will be an independent project, which it already is. But I do not want to add this as an external dependency to sbbdep, so sbbdep will continue to include its own snapshot of this library. This required some changes in the build structure; fortunately with CMake this is an easy task.
I have libsl3 in the openSUSE build service, which is currently only for openSUSE Leap but also serves as a placeholder for wider binary distribution.

This was the biggest time eater, but also the most fun one and the story goes like this:
I was member of the user group for quite a while, but there have been no meetings at all. Then I got the notification that the current organizer stepped back, and that the group on meetup will vanish if no one else steps in. This was on a Thursday, so I thought, OK, let’s wait and see what happens. Nothing happened, and on Monday evening I said to myself that after 4 days nobody will think about that group anymore. So I decided to step in, paid the costs for the group and became the new organizer.

And to make a long story short:
Now there is a organizer team, sponsors and upcoming events.
Pretty cool and I am really happy.

6 months of blogging and still not a single post about C++, which should be my special topic.

But, as a German saying goes, sometimes things develop differently than you might think. And I am absolutely not dissatisfied; I like how things are developing currently.
But my next post should definitely have some C++ content, or at least some C++ relation, for sure, hopefully…​ :-)

Thanks for listening/reading!
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