Present Perfect

Yesterday was cause for celebration. We got together to celebrate five years of the Fluendo Group!

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The picture quality is bad, and not everyone is in it, but I just took it on a whim after marveling how many people were there. I didn't even know all of them - yes it's gotten to that point. 67 months ago I arrived in Barcelona without the company even being created...

We celebrated with mountains of cheese and rivers of wine which in the first year would have lasted us a few weeks and now only lasted an hour.

As magical accidents sometimes happen, today is also the day Fluendo received the certification confirmation from Dolby for our DVD player. It didn't take long to land in the webshop, so finally our DVD player is up for sale! So you know what to get us for our birthday - a shop checkout with the dvd player in your cart.

Good timing - that means that at this year's GUADEC/Desktop Summit I know what the answer will be to one of the most asked questions I get.

This is the first GUADEC I'm going to with Kristien in tow, I hope she can manage. I'll be there from Monday through Friday, because the week is bookended by two weddings. Looking forward to a GStreamer summit on Thursday discussing 1.0...

Yesterday was cause for celebration. We got together to celebrate five years of the Fluendo Group! 71092 The picture quality is bad, and not everyone is in it, but I...

Jan and Arek entered this year's ICFP programming contest. It's a three day programming contest, so this morning they asked if they could swap their Friday project day for today to finish the contest. They seem to be in the top third at the moment.

Arek's never been a fan of long meetings, but today's standup meeting was particularly amusing with Arek urging everyone to keep focused and get out there quickly. They had less than two hours left on the clock.

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Amusingly, today they came to work with almost the same shirt on, by accident! I can only assume there is a big clothes factory in Poland where they have huge stock of the same fabric...

90 minutes left, knock them dead, guys!

Jan and Arek entered this year's ICFP programming contest. It's a three day programming contest, so this morning they asked if they could swap their Friday project day for today...

mach allows you to set up clean roots from scratch for any distribution or distribution variation supported.

This release of mach contains fixes for Python 2.6, and adds Fedora 10 and 11, while fixing the archived Fedora locations.

Get it from the mach project page.

mach allows you to set up clean roots from scratch for any distribution or distribution variation supported. This release of mach contains fixes for Python 2.6, and adds Fedora 10...

Next step on this weekend's yakshave: a first implementation of moap vcs bisect!

The interface is lifted from git, obviously, since that's where most people will know the feature from.

I implemented it first with CVS, so I could fix this pychecker bug which was blocking Fedora from bumping the pychecker version from 0.8.17 (3 years old) to 0.8.18. And sure enough, it picked out the commit I broke.

While implementing and while dealing with CVS's idea of how it stores CVS revisions and dates and so on, I googled and was amused to find this first hit on google for the words cvs and bisect. Clever Andy! And he cleverly sidestepped the problem I wrestled with by making the user specify two dates at the start instead of trying to figure it out from the checkout. And all in lisp too!

Then, to test that my VCS interface was sane, I implemented it for Subversion as well. That took about 15 minutes, since Subversion is much more sane than CVS. I tried the following command on a flumotion checkout:

moap vcs bisect reset; moap vcs bisect start; svn up; moap vcs bisect good; svn up -r 3000; moap vcs bisect bad; MOAP_DEBUG=4 moap vcs bisect run ./test.sh


With test.sh containing

test -e flumotion/component/consumers/gdp/gdp.py


(In other words, look for the commit that added this file.)

Sure enough, it picked out this commit:

[moap-trunk] [thomas@ana flumotion]$ moap vcs bisect diff
Index: /home/thomas/tmp/flumotion/configure.ac
===================================================================
--- /home/thomas/tmp/flumotion/configure.ac (revision 6909)
+++ /home/thomas/tmp/flumotion/configure.ac (revision 6908)
@@ -212,7 +212,6 @@
flumotion/component/combiners/switch/Makefile
flumotion/component/consumers/Makefile
flumotion/component/consumers/disker/Makefile
-flumotion/component/consumers/gdp/Makefile
flumotion/component/consumers/httpstreamer/Makefile
flumotion/component/consumers/preview/Makefile
flumotion/component/consumers/shout2/Makefile
Index: /home/thomas/tmp/flumotion/flumotion/component/consumers/Makefile.am
===================================================================
--- /home/thomas/tmp/flumotion/flumotion/component/consumers/Makefile.am (revision 6909)
+++ /home/thomas/tmp/flumotion/flumotion/component/consumers/Makefile.am (revision 6908)
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@



SUBDIRS = \
disker \
- gdp \
httpstreamer \
preview \
shout2
Index: /home/thomas/tmp/flumotion/ChangeLog
===================================================================
--- /home/thomas/tmp/flumotion/ChangeLog (revision 6909)
+++ /home/thomas/tmp/flumotion/ChangeLog (revision 6908)
@@ -1,16 +1,5 @@
2008-06-20 Thomas Vander Stichele


- * configure.ac:
- * flumotion/component/consumers/Makefile.am:
- * flumotion/component/consumers/gdp (added):
- * flumotion/component/consumers/gdp/gdp.py (added):
- * flumotion/component/consumers/gdp/__init__.py (added):
- * flumotion/component/consumers/gdp/Makefile.am (added):
- * flumotion/component/consumers/gdp/gdp.xml (added):
- Add a GDP consumer.
-
-2008-06-20 Thomas Vander Stichele -
* flumotion/component/producers/gdp/gdp.py:
Add error for http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=532364

So, the feature is ready for testing. It could use some more documenting, and some additional goodies like accepting arguments to moap vcs bisect start for example.

Feedback appreciated!

Next step on this weekend's yakshave: a first implementation of moap vcs bisect! The interface is lifted from git, obviously, since that's where most people will know the feature from....

Still on the yak shave expedition.

I've written some simple scripts and files to set up and build python 2.3, 2.4, and 2.5 in separate prefixes to be able to test my software against these versions.

If you're interested, in theory it should be really simple:

• Install jhbuild
• Check out my python jhbuild directory: svn co https://thomas.apestaart.org/thomas/svn/jhbuild/python
• run 'make'

As the README says, this should go on to build all versions of python, and install some scripts.

After that, you just run py-2.3 to go into a shell with Python 2.3 on your path.

Don't say I never did anything for you.

Still on the yak shave expedition. I've written some simple scripts and files to set up and build python 2.3, 2.4, and 2.5 in separate prefixes to be able to...