Le bogue est mort

…il ne crira plus cocodi cocoda” I think that’s it. We had two inconsistencies in the bug-fixer results, but we understand both of them, and none needs a software update.

After driving back from Alsace, Barbara and Eddi stayed in my tiny flat in Paris for two nights before heading to Brittany. And I am working nervously understanding what my software is doing. Some impatience in our daily phone-conferences starts to leak through. It is obvious, that we have to start the bug-fixing-reprocessing of parts of the data, if we don’t want to run out of time for the winter conference results.

But I think we are there. Yesterday evening I sent a mail to Jan, because I couldn’t find some problem in my part of the code. I woke up at 5:00 this morning, logged in and 2 minutes later, I just got a reply from Jan, explaining in some more detail what “his” part of the software is doing, and why this looks consistent to him. I immediately started to run some more tests: the laptop on my knees in bed, while drinking coffee, and I understood. Uff.

I still feel nervous before the phone-conference (every day, I have to dial three or four times the number before getting it right!) but the tension is starting to fall. I feel relieved, even a little sad. Barbara and Eddi just left. I wasn’t in a mood receiving them very warmly these two days, but I think they understood. These holidays have been very different from what I imagined. Also for all those who worked because of this bug. Sorry.

I think, doing the dishes, will just be the right thing to come back to where this whole thing started.