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Back from holidays

jd — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:10:00 +0100

After 10 days of nice holidays, I'm back. I was totally offline, so I had to read some hundred of mails first, which is done now.

For a good restart, I've fixed a bunch of bugs in awesome and released 2.2-rc2 version. I've also migrated apt-build repository on Alioth from Subversion to git. I've uploaded a new version of this one with some patches, and a also put in the archive a new version of the mp32ogg package.

Next step will be to move my packages repositories which are in my global home Subversion repository, to my own git repositories on Alioth.

Holidays and projects

jd — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:53:00 +0100

Long story short: I'm busy.

These days are quite busy. I'm working (you know, I need to eat so I've a job), to the point that I have many vacation days to take. So I'll be in holidays and offline from friday for 10 days.

I'm still working on awesome developement. Code base is quite good now, so I don't do 30 commits/day anymore, and update are less frequent. It's very nice that the users base is increasing every day, without polluting the mailing list and the BTS with bug reports and request for documentation. That means we at least achieve to do a not-so-bad code with a not-so-bad documentation. The feature requests list is still a bit long, but I think it will decrease in the next weeks.

On a human side, that's the biggest project I ever managed and it's very pleasant to have so many users and contributors.

I've some more project I'd like to work too. I plan to write a small git stats generator in Python when I'll have some more spare time. I'd also like to do some developement work around LDAP and Python for my servers, but I did not find the courage to do it neither the good library to handle LDAP object correctly (a DB_Object way would be good).

I'm always following Debian developement with one eye, so I'm not totally out. I really hope I could to some bug squashing like I did with several Debian buddies 2 years ago for the etch release.

Stay tuned.

Moving old projects to git

jd — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 10:02:00 +0100

I finally did it.

Most of my small and personal projects (telak, sysrqd and mod_defensible) were maintained in my home-svn-repository. This had the side effect that I did not have a good overview of the current status of the project, and that I never though about tagging releases.

I used git-svnimport to move this stuff to git, with great success. Now, I see that only one release on three is tagged correctly, bad me. They are now on my git server.

But with a better tool like git I'm sure I will be more precise when I will work on that source code, so it was time to switch. And now my source code is public, which is far better than before.

J'ai agité VHFFS

jd — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 22:27:00 +0200

Ca faisait un bail que je ne m'étais pas replongé dans VHFFS. J'avais déjà râlé auprès des admins de TuxFamily pour qu'ils rajoutent un support de git à VHFFS, mais rien à faire, cette bande de feignasse ne se bougeait pas.

Alors puisqu'il ne me faut que 2 semaines pour faire VHFFS, je me suis dis qu'en une soirée je pouvais faire un patch pour supporter git.

Donc hier soir je m'y suis mis et voilà en une petite heure j'ai pondu un petit patch (avec pas mal de copier/coller du code de Subversion):

39 files changed, 1903 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Sylvain a finit le boulot de débuggage et de correction des quelques oublies que j'avais fait, vu qu'il n'est pas évident de coder et de tester sans installer VHFFS.

Et ce soir c'est déjà en production chez TuxFamily.

01:04 <@florent> jd: tu roxe

git statistics?

jd — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:43:00 +0200

I wonder if there are tools to do pretty git statistics, something like that:

(done on linux-2.6 git repository).