David Gay pointed me to an interesting project called Git by a Bus. Git by a Bus analyzes your git repository and attempts to quantify risk of having lots of code knowledge tied up in only a few people. Git by a Bus does its analysis by going through the …
After I answered a question on the devel list today about getting one’s hands on an old testing package for Fedora that had been obsoleted or removed, Josh Boyer one-upped me by providing some easy instructions. I figured I would tip my fedora to him by building a blog post …
I took some time last night to make a couple additional fixes and changes to the irssi-libnotify project I posted about a few days ago. Among other things, I changed the upstream VCS from Subversion to git, which ended up being pretty simple. I’m much happier keeping the code at …
In a recent post tech writer Sean Michael Kerner advocated moving the kernel to Github. Here’s why I think the evidence isn’t so clear cut. Note this is my personal opinion, since I’m not a member of the kernel developer community and thus have no real say in the matter. …
I flew up to Red Hat’s office in Westford for the week to accomplish quite a large number of things, mainly a metric ton of meetings with my manager and a few other people around the department in relation to my new role at Red Hat. Therefore my schedule’s going …
Today started with a bang — or maybe it didn’t. I don’t know, because for the first time in something like two years I managed to oversleep, missing my alarm clock by over an hour. That meant rushing around like crazy to get Ian up — actually Eleya did this, …
I’m sitting in the pleasant (and free wifi-equipped!) Salt Lake City airport, waiting for my plane back to DC and my home and family. I’m really looking forward to seeing them for dinner and a few hours of together time, before I motor off to Raleigh early tomorrow morning. Yesterday …
From the “likely playing catchup” files: The Git User’s Survey for 2009 is now available online. We have a lot of git gurus in Fedora, so if you do use it, go take the survey. It takes only 5 minutes and can help the git developers with future roadmapping. I …
Things accomplished so far this weekend: Held a FredLUG meeting, except none of the new folks showed up — probably a combination of Saturday morning and ugly weather. Two of them have won some nice giveaway schwag, though, so I expect we’ll see them at a meeting soon. Watched the …