Present Perfect

Got off a plane this morning after a scant 5 hours of sleep. This after repeated days of waking up at 6 in the morning. I think I will catch up tonight. Happy to be back at +12 C instead of -12 C. Although I must say a frozen Charles river had its charm.

Meanwhile, I was goaded by daniels into making myself a southpark hackergotchi for Freedesktop.

I will keep it short for now, and just drop in a reminder about things to write about later.

I am liking my Nokia 800 a lot - thank you Nokia for considering me. Surprised there is still no Vorbis support, so that will be my number one task for this thing.

The past weekend has made my TODO list grow even more. Among other things, clean up pirut's autotools setup (because the pirutspin guys made me take a look at their verbatim search-and-replace copy) and submit a patch for that, update some Fedora packages, do a release of Savon soon, set up an SELinux-stops-a-known-exploit example, build ppc gstreamer packages, finish off a local patch that adds help links to the Flumotion UI messages, create GStreamer/Flumotion/Elisa live CD's, look at the OLPC camera kernel driver to turn off auto-balancing of hue/saturation for the space invaders game, and find a Barcelona bagel store with cream cheese.

Now excuse me while I go home and vegetate watching a possibly good new series called "Heroes"...

Got off a plane this morning after a scant 5 hours of sleep. This after repeated days of waking up at 6 in the morning. I think I will catch...

Coincidental geek poetry

FUDCON claimed its first hospital victim last night. Luckily I left the bar before it got to that point, going back to the hotel at 22.00

I guess I should have gone for a different jet lag strategy, only being here for three days - go to bed early and wake up early and stay in the European rhythm.

However, I wanted to finish the bash completion autogeneration I was working for last night for my Python Command class, which I use in
moap and savon. Doing that helps a lot in discovering the commands as you go.

So I ended up staying up until midnight working on that, and woke up this morning around 6.30 and continued working on it. I've got a reasonably good first stab at it implemented. It handles commands, boolean arguments, and arguments that take values, though it doesn't yet know when it should complete with files. So, time for another moap release soon...

Am at the hackfest now, watching David Zeuthen explain his new Fedora LiveCD tools. Looks pretty good, I'm hoping to make a GStreamer and Fluendo live CD using these tools.

Coincidental geek poetry FUDCON claimed its first hospital victim last night. Luckily I left the bar before it got to that point, going back to the hotel at 22.00 I...

I haven't even written anything yet to wrap up my LCA experience, I still have Sydney beach sand in my shoes, and still not recovered from my Eastern jetlag - and here I am in Boston, MA for FUDCON 2007. Thanks to Greg for having me over and taking care of the logistics! I'm sure the jolt from Eastern jetlag to Western jetlag will catch up with me soon enough.

The hotel is swank - the only downside is that there is no free Internet. In this day and age, I think it should come for free in a hotel. I was looking forward to use my Nokia 800 to get all my travel info and get around, but ...

On the upside, I met up with my old primary school and scouts buddy Ward, who lives here in Boston and works part-time for the FSF. He took me out to a nice Vietnamese place, and afterwards his wife April joined up with us and we went to a few bars, and then to the completely free (as in beer) ice skating rink at Harvard. Even skates are provided in one of the three bins.

There's a lot of new faces I have to get acquainted with. There are a few GNOMEy people that I know, and Owen Taylor and Bryan Clark just walked in (and are going to do a Mugshot talk (congrats to them for being number one "mugshot" Google hit by the way!). When I originally tried Mugshot, it asked me to restart my desktop session - which I of course refused. By the time I actually rebooted my machine, the mugshot client was complaining that it was out of date and needed an upgrade. And, of course, a subsequent desktop restart. Which I refused. So I never got to understand what the fuss was about.

Looks like it's time to give it another try - Bryan explained some interesting use cases that may actually make sense for what I want to get out of my online experience.

But it'd better not ask me to restart my desktop session!

More later...

I haven't even written anything yet to wrap up my LCA experience, I still have Sydney beach sand in my shoes, and still not recovered from my Eastern jetlag -...

The last package part of the Twisted splitup in Fedora Extras has finally hit devel and FC6: the python-twisted umbrella package that pulls in all the others so that the upgrade from previous python-twisted (Sumo) packages is seamless.

Of course, in the long time it took to siphon all packages through, the Twisted team has released a new version. So my work is not done yet - but I will put off updating them to next week when I'm in a more comfortable place to do the work.

With that, it is finally getting time to take a look at how we can split up Flumotion so that people can install manager and worker pieces completely without any GTK/X dependencies. Twisted has split in pieces, pygtk has split off pygobject, so everything is ready now.

Flumotion 0.4.0 is right around the corner, Zaheer has done the hard testing work and Andy's been fixing robustness-related issues all over for the last month. I should get off my ass and start documenting some more.

The last package part of the Twisted splitup in Fedora Extras has finally hit devel and FC6: the python-twisted umbrella package that pulls in all the others so that the...

One more item off my weekend TODO-list !

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

This clean build root can be used to run jailed services, create disk images,
or build clean packages.

Changes:
- Add FC6, CentOS 4 and JPackage 1.7 configs (Ville)
- Run rpmlint by default (Thomas)
- Cleanup of dist files (Ville)
- Enable buildroot and rpath checks in FE roots (Ville)
- Add /dev/(u)random to the root (Thomas)
- Sync FC build package sets with Fedora guidelines (Ville)
- Create RPM transaction lock directories during prep (Nigel)
- Add Fedora PPC configs (Matthias)
- Add debian build files (Jan)

More info: mach project page

One more item off my weekend TODO-list ! mach allows you to set up clean roots from scratch for any distribution or distribution variation supported. This clean build root can...