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Hiring Manager: Emphasize Integrity, Attitude 14/12/2007 11:18:07
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The Dunc-Tank project has been the topic of much debate in the Debian community since it was launched in September last year. Aimed at overcoming Debian's notorious delays in meeting its scheduled releases, Dunc-Tank collected donations to test the effect of funding on open-source software development.
It has now been more than a month since the scheduled release of Debian 4.0, codenamed etch. However, even with Dunc-Tank's funding, etch is yet to be seen.
Liz Tay speaks with Debian Project Leader and Dunc-Tank mastermind Anthony Towns to find out what happened.
How did the Dunc-Tank experiment come about?
Dunc-Tank was a project to see if we could put some funding into Debian release management so that it would be more likely to come out on time.
It was originally going to be an internal thing within Debian, but there was a lot of controversy as to whether the release was a suitable thing to be funding alone, or whether it should have been a more general thing, so that anyone could apply for funding.
So rather than spend six months debating it and working out a really good way of doing it, we figured that since the release was due in just a couple of months, we'd go ahead with an external project and once we'd done that, we could have some actual results [and] some information about whether these things work and what sort of problems actually come up.
The particular thing that inspired this [Dunc-Tank experiment] was about three months before the December 4th release date -- that had kind of been bandied around a bit casually, Steve Langasek, who is one of the release managers, was basically working 18 hours a day on his day job to do PHP coding, and he wasn't having enough time after that to look into some of the release critical issues that we were having.
I thought if we could get Steve being able to spend some dedicated blocks of time, rather than having to compromise with his work and stay up late, or not getting any sleep overnight, or whatever, then that might have a good influence. So we talked to the release managers to see if that would be practical, and it turned out that it was for them.
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Computerworld Live Podcast #97: The Future of Enterprise Networking 25/07/2008 09:45:36
This week CW Live chats with Mark Thompson, global sales and marketing manager for HP ProCurve, on the future of the enterprise networking. Mark discusses the trends we can expect to see in the near future and how the right infrastructure can ensure your enterprise network is secure. - +
Computerworld Live Podcast #96: Security at the Edge 11/06/2008 09:22:22
CW Live speaks with Amol Mitra, HP ProCurve Director of Marketing for Asia Pacific and Japan. Today's topic: how enterprises are starting to shift away from simply controlling security via server logins, firewalls and moving to more adaptive security frameworks. - +
Data Management Edition #10: Multi-Petascale Systems 02/05/2008 09:12:33
This week we look at sustainability and the development of multicore technologies to build multi-petascale systems. - +
IT Security Edition #11: How to poison the Storm botnet 01/05/2008 08:51:55
This week CW Live presents a case study on how to poison the notorious Storm botnet . Plus we take a look at Cisco's plans for Ironport. - +
IT Security Edition #10: Cyber-battles fought and won 24/04/2008 11:09:47
Vendors bow to end user pressure to improve product security, and we take a look at the latest concepts shaping the cyber-battlefield of the future.
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Improving Sales Productivity: An Opportunity for Sales and IT Leadership
Strong leadership and teamwork between business units are key factors in the productivity, efficiency and effectiveness in business today. This paper demonstrates the critical role technology can play and the practices that all divisions in co-operation with IT should follow for the best chance to success.
