Monthly Archives: June 2008

Why is Git for some only the one perfect DVCS and no discussion is possible? From Git is the only DVCS caring about performance incl outdated benchmarks, to the ‘all DVCS’ systems are hard’ and lastly ‘switching VCS systems is … Continue reading →

I wanted to rewrite Mango in Python for a while now, but couldn’t determine which framework to use. Mostly as these frameworks either do way too much or just not enough. Shaunm (and some others in #gnome-hackers) was so nice … Continue reading →

SUbversion 1.5.0 has been released. I plan to upgrade svn.gnome.org when 1.5.1 is released. See the announcement for full 1.5 details. Things I like are: Merge tracking There are still a few known issues with this. This is why I … Continue reading →

I really love all those HTML tags.

Regarding: This was more annoying, since there is some script there in s.g.o’s guts that rejects any commit if the repo has an executable. This is a simplification. Executable files are allowed. There is a pre-commit hook to disallow executable … Continue reading →

Just wanted to respond via the planet on one thing: It is getting increasingly hard to get new stuff into Gnome, and when someone approaches with something that is slightly controversial huge flamewars erupt. Consider Tracker and Empathy on the … Continue reading →

Note that the distribution upgrade of svn.gnome.org has been completed. AFAICS everything is working. If you have issues, please ping me (bkor) or another person with ops in #sysadmin (irc.gnome.org). PS: I do expect loads of commits now

This week I took a look at the moderation queue of a GNOME mailing list. There were loads of messages in it. There is a moderation team who looks at these queues and cleans it up, by discarding the spam … Continue reading →

I’ve upgraded the Mailman version on mail.gnome.org to 2.1.10. In this version I redid the post-only patch. Basically, if the default action for new subscribers is to moderate them (done on e.g. metacity-devel-list), then members subscribed to post-only won’t be … Continue reading →

A while ago I added some basic SSH public key checking to Mango. This for two reasons: Avoid email back and forth in case of copy/paste error To ensure the key is long enough The key length checking was mostly … Continue reading →