Stephen Thorne's Journal

I read today that the debian folks are considering a new source package format, called the 'Wig-and-Pen'.

It was named after a particular pub that it was designed in, during linux.conf.au 2005.

The Wig and Pen is the source of many happy memories for me, mostly because I drank there most nights when I was in Canberra. This was the result of someone in the little hallway that joined all the lecture theatres together saying, "Sod it, someone said 'The Wig and Pen' and that's where we're going."

As a result, 80-100 people turn up to this watering hole on a monday night, when there are barely 2 people staffing the place. We come within litres of drinking them out of their homebrew beer, and eat them completely out of food. I was asked quite politely how long the conference is in town, and how many people to expect on a nightly basis.

Many a quick hack was written on those nights. I believe there was a hurd L4 filesystem that was fixed, I designed most of the solution that would eventually net me a powermac g5 in the hackfest, and, so it seems, there was some debian package design that went on while I wasn't watching.

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