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POSSE, day 1 (evening)

July 21st, 2009

Got a temporary badge for the Red Hat offices. I can open doors!
Participated in discussions on the history of free software/open source/good stuff and the sort of “network(ing) operations” of free software hacking
Ate lunch (om nom nom)
Pestered people massively over IRC
Ran a camera (video and still)
Triaged email and sat on my butt, as well as floors and desks
Ate a damn good pizza

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POSSE, day 1 (afternoon)

July 20th, 2009

I’m really only writing this to see if it gets up on the planet in time before we go on to the next subject ;)

Hello, POSSE! :D

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POSSE, day 1 (morning)

July 20th, 2009

no sleep is CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL >:(

In other news, Delta messed up my flights but they fixed it all without any hitches other than my parents getting worried, and I met Mel. All’s cool! :)

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Need a hackergotchi?

July 9th, 2009

The design team can help you create one.

Go grab a photo of yourself (preferably in a high resolution), upload it somewhere, and create a new ticket at the design team’s Trac repository. (You’ll need to be logged in with your FAS account to create a ticket. The login link is in the upper right-hand side of the page.)

There has been a lot of people on Planet recently without a hackergotchi—just a face. We’ll help you change that. :)

davej's hackergotchi mspevack's hackergotchi herlo's hackergotchi azneita's hackergotchi

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Statistics 2.0: The beginnings

July 6th, 2009

I’ve been doing some work on getting a Statistics application in Fedora Community. It’s very weak as it stands — only shows you two wiki-related things right now — but now that I’ve kind of meandered around the code a bunch, I think I have a better idea of what I’m doing, and it shouldn’t be difficult to churn out code for other parts of Fedora’s stuff now.

Currently, we have a Grid widget and a Flot widget. Grids are used for displaying data in, well, a grid, and Flot widgets are used for nice, pretty charts. (The awesome thing about Flot is that it uses pure HTML to create charts. How about that?!)

I need to thank Luke Macken and J5 for all the help I’ve gotten from them so far. :)

So let’s go through how you can test this and see the magic unfold. (And potentially figure out how to write code for you own use cases!)

Install Luke’s repo file for TurboGears 2. It’s not all in Fedora yet so this is necessary. You can find the repo files at http://lmacken.fedorapeople.org/rpms/tg2/.
Install moksha.
```
# yum install moksha
```
Pull fedoracommunity.git.
```
$ git clone git://git.fedorahosted.org/fedoracommunity.git
```
(If you’ve got a FAS account and you’ve ever used Hosted before, it’s usually a good idea to use ssh://, IMHO. Makes it easier to push later if you get push access. The URL for that is ssh://git.fedorahosted.org/git/fedoracommunity.git)
Create the stats branch locally, and pull from the remote stats branch.
```
$ cd fedoracommunity/; git checkout -b stats; git pull origin stats
```
Now, I don’t know if this is the proper way to do it, but it’s portable and it works. Before you can start up paster to serve the content, an egg needs to be created.
```
$ python setup.py egg_info
```
Then you can run paster:
```
$ paster serve development.ini
```
And yay!

The important files to note are fedoracommunity/connectors/wikiconnector.py, fedoracommunity/mokshaapps/statistics/widgets/wiki.py, and fedoracommunity/mokshaapps/statistics/templates/wiki_active_pages.mak. My next priority is to get stats for how FAS groups grow over time.

Happy hacking! :)

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TremFusion

July 4th, 2009

I’ve been working with an upstream project called TremFusion, an “enhanced modification of the free software first person shooter Tremulous”, for well over half a year now, working with them as a Fedora packager and keeping up with development so that their development practices are relatively sane (as well as doing their website design).

Upstream has finally released version 0.99r3, which they determined would be the version they wanted to start the package review process. So here’s the review request.

And if you’re interested in keeping up with the progress of this package, you can check http://ianweller.fedorapeople.org/is_tremfusion_in_fedora_yet/ :)

Tags: fedora, fps, games, quake, tremfusion, tremulous | 1 Comment »