=================================================================== RCS file: /cvsrepo/anoncvs/cvs/www/lyrics.html,v retrieving revision 1.158 retrieving revision 1.159 diff -u -r1.158 -r1.159 --- www/lyrics.html 2015/08/25 06:09:18 1.158 +++ www/lyrics.html 2015/09/01 15:57:06 1.159 @@ -30,7 +30,8 @@ 5.8: "Fanza", - "So much better"
+ "So much better", and + "A Year in the Life"
5.7: "Source Fish"
5.6: "Ride of the Valkyries"
5.5: "Wrap in Time"
@@ -178,6 +179,87 @@ Female vocals by Ulrike Jung. Edited, composed, and arranged on OpenBSD using Audacity, CMU Flite, and Schism Tracker. Mastering by Lars Neugebauer of adlerhorstaudio and Joerg Jung. + +
+ +
+ +

+5.8: "A Year in the Life"

+ + +
+OpenBSD 5.8 CD2 track 5 is an
+uncompressed copy of this song.
+
+4:52 (MP3 8.9MB) +(OGG 6.7MB)
+
+ + +
+		 +I read the news today oh boy
+About a silly man who made a change
+And though the hole was rather bad
+Well I just had to laugh
+I saw the code he wrote.
+
+BIO_snprintf with a cast..
+He didn't know the POSIX API had changed
+A crowd on slashdot stood and stared.
+They'd seen such code before
+Everyone was really sure
+It was from 1984..
+
+I saw a tweet today oh boy.
+The OpenBSD devs had just forked the code.
+And though the code was rather gross
+They held their nose and dove.
+Having read the code..
+I'd love to Ceeeeee Veeeeee Eeeeeee.
+
+Built up.. a sense of dread..
+IMPLEMENT_ASN1 macros in my head.
+Found a way down through 10 levels of hell
+And looking there, I noticed more to fix.
+#unifdef, and rewrite that
+cut this out, and hear it splat.
+Found my way upstairs and read hackernews
+whining about comic sans and CVS.
+
+Whiiiiiiinne whine whine....
+Whiiiine whinee.... Whine Whineee....
+whine.. They... Use Cee.. Vee Esss...
+
+I read the news today oh boy
+Four thousand holes in OpenSSL
+And though the holes were rather small
+They embargoed them all
+The priviledged get to patch them
+while the rest get no info, at all...
+I'd love to Ceeeeee Veeeeee Eeeeeee.
+		 +
+
+

+ +We've done stuff about LibreSSL before, but this particular song just +fit with the release theme. While the lyrics can speak for themselves, +"A Year In The Life" is representative of more than just LibreSSL. The +pattern of LibreSSL development is a pattern that has repeated itself +many times in OpenBSD -- a decision is made by a few people to do +something, followed by action, and letting the world share it if they +like it (such as with OpenSSH). To the developers actually doing the +work, reactions to such efforts can often seem surreal, or +irrelevant. The juxtaposition of working on the very real with the +surreal going on around you can often make working on such projects +feel like you're in a bit of an altered reality.. Sort of like the +song. A number of us have had many years like this in the last 20. +
+
+Lyrics by Bob Beck. Composition, arrangement, recording by +Jonathan Lewis. Vocals and instruments by Jonathan Lewis.