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> So, fellow devs, what's new with development? For those interested, genlop |
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> has |
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> migrated into gentoo as a project with the permission of upstream, which |
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> no |
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> longer maintain it. Um...any new tools or projects people are working on? |
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> Anyone? |
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My current projects include: |
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block_sync glep: really..I'm still working on it..it's almost done, this will |
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enable developers to block the cvs->rsync sync to repair major tree |
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damage. hopefully end of the month for this. |
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Project Leads Glep: This is a new idea, mostly making tiny bits of work |
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for project leads so we can get an idea of what is going on within Gentoo. |
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Still in the 'soliciting initial feedback' phase. I'm also working on |
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the app needed to support this idea (writing it in ruby for now). |
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LDAP Improvements: Slowly working on learning ruby-activeLDAP and using it |
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to punt perl_ldap because I think perl_ldap sucks. Once the newer shinier |
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app is written I plan on writing up some training for it. This is for the |
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overall move of data into ldap which is then used to generate things like |
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userinfo.xml and other web-based data. One place for updates folks.. |
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Gentoolkit: I just ported the new portage namespace to these tools and |
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fixed a few bugs. Sadly I also wrote a broken patch to echangelog that |
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got the newest rev of gentoolkit masked. Fixing echangelog is on my list |
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of things to do. If you are better than me at perl (probably true for |
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many of you) I could use some help here ;) |
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Portage Unit Tests and /etc/portage: |
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These are on the backburner for now but there are nice OO based classes |
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for /etc/portage config files; this means if you were so inclined you |
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could store that data in a db and write classes to read from the db |
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instead of from files. This functionality is not yet enabled in trunk as |
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I have no idea how to bolt it on to portage.config yet; but I'm working on |
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it. |
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The /etc/portage config rewrite is to enable me to test large classes like |
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portage.config that read from tons of files (reading from files is |
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generally a cardinal sin in unit testing). |
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The testing of course is to enable the portage team to make changes and |
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not break stuff. Most of the new features I've been working on are driven |
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using Test Driven Development (TDD) and involve gutting old n busted |
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functions; replacing with new ones. Still need more tests though. |
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Ugh, and I thought I was trying to do less... |
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Oh Summer of Code...reviewed nearly all of the apps. Voting is on Sunday? |
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-Alec |
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