Back on LGM 2014
Last week I have had the opportunity to attend my first Libre Graphic Meeting conference, this year located in Leipzig (Germany). Not being much of a graphic person, I must say that I was sometime lost...
View ArticlePresentations at FOSDEM and DevConf 2014
This year I attended both FOSDEM and DevConf and at both conference I was given the possibility to give a presentation.At FOSDEM, together with the Debian developer Nicolas Dandrimont, we gave a...
View ArticleSmall update on dgroc
It has been a little while since I last spoke about dgroc, the daily git rebuild on copr program.The problem is that it kinda already lost its name...Thanks to the great work of Miro Hrončok dgroc now...
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Fedocal 0.7
This morning I released fedocal version 0.7.1.With this version comes a number of new features which I thought would be nice to advertise a little :-)The main calendar view & the menuThe main...
View ArticleFaitout, 1000 sessions
A while back, I introduced faitout on this blog.Since then I have been using it to tests most if not all the project I work on. I basically use the following set-up: DB_PATH = 'sqlite:///:memory:'...
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1 year
Today is the first anniversary of the day we said good-bye to a good friend.There has been a number of tributes in the couple of months following his disappearance, and there are still some once in a...
View ArticleNew package, new branch, new workflow?
If you are a Fedora packager, you are probably aware of the new pkgdb.One question which has been raised by this new version is: should we change the process to request new branches or integrate new...
View ArticleThe Joy of timezones
Today, I was looking at fedocal as I found out it could not import its own iCal files.Well, to be exact, the import worked fine but then it was not able to display the meeting. The source of the issue...
View ArticleFlock 2014 - day 1 to 3
Today is the fourth day of flock. As usual the last three days have been really nice. I got to go to a number of interesting conferences and could even present a couple of project that I am or will be...
View ArticleFedora-Infra: Did you know? The package information are now updated weekly in...
The package database pkgdb2 is the place where is managed the permission on the git repositories.In simple words, it is the place managing the "who is allowed to do what on which package".For each...
View ArticlePython multiprocessing and queue
Every once in a while I want to run a program in parallel but gather its output in a single process so that I do not have concurrent accesses (think for example, several process computing something and...
View ArticleInfra FAD 2014 - Part 1: MirrorManager
The last two days have been quite busy for the Fedora infrastructure team. Most of us are indeed meeting up in Raleigh, in the Red Hat tower down-town and together with Matt Domsch, the original...
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Infra FAD 2014 - Part 2: Ansible
Part 1: MirrorManagerIt has been two days since I came back and others have already reported about our progress (Ralph, kevin day 0 & 1, kevin day 2, kevin day 3, kevin day 4 and finally, kevin day...
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Fedora 21 release day, 7 days later
Last week Tuesday, we released the 21st version of Fedora. The morning of the release we noticed that the load of some of the proxies was running very high. So we started checking our monitoring for...
View ArticleFirefox private browsing directly
I use the private mode of firefox quite often, for example when I want to test an application while being authenticated in one windown and not authenticated in another window.I also use this mode when...
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New branch request process
A little while ago I blogged about a new process to request a new branch on an existing package.The code to support this change is now under review but I thought I should document the workflow a little...
View ArticleAbout SourceForge and anitya
There are a couple of reports (1 and 2) about anitya not doing its job properly for projects hosted on sourceforge.net.So here is a summary of the situation:A project X on sourceforge.net, for example...
View ArticleCheck your packages in pkgdb and anitya
The question was asked on the devel list earlier if there was a way to check all one's packages for their status in pkgdb and whether they are in anitya.So I just cooked up quickly a small script to do...
View ArticleNew package & new branch process
A little while ago, I blogged about the new package and new branch request processes.These changes have been pushed to production yesterday.What does this change for you, packager?New packageIf you...
View ArticleProgit is dead, long live pagure
You may have heard of a little pet project I have been working on recently, I called it progit but there already a more well-known project named progit (the pro git book).So, after long deliberations,...
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