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Dustin J. Mitchell: IT and Community

nospam@example.com (Dustin J. Mitchell) — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:25:17 -0600

Yes, that looks quite helpful!

I'll let the IT folks know about the [mentor=..] tag, and see if we can add those as necessary/possible.

Thanks!

David Boswell: IT and Community

nospam@example.com (David Boswell) — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:00:36 -0600

This is great. Being more clear about opportunities people can take on should make it easier for people to get started.

One thought about your bug list -- have you thought of also marking these as mentored bugs? This will show new contributors that there are people available who will help with any problems they have working through a task. More about that at

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mentors

And to help people find the right bug from them, Josh Matthews has put together a demo that offers a way to search through open mentored bugs based on certain criteria.

http://www.joshmatthews.net/bugsahoy/

If this looks like it would be helpful for IT bugs, let me know.

Dustin J. Mitchell: IT and Community

nospam@example.com (Dustin J. Mitchell) — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 01:19:59 -0600

If you have a bugzilla account, you should be able to add the "good-first-bug" search to your footer; see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/userprefs.cgi.

Dustin J. Mitchell: Nagios NSCA from Python

nospam@example.com (Dustin J. Mitchell) — Fri, 20 May 2011 18:07:54 -0500

In this particular case, the monitored hosts cannot run any services (they are talos systems, used for performance testing, and thus can't be spending CPU cycles servicing requests at odd moments). So this has to be a passive check result sent directly from the host to the server.

Steve Fink: Nagios NSCA from Python

nospam@example.com (Steve Fink) — Fri, 20 May 2011 18:04:05 -0500

When I was doing similar things, I found the check_mk plugin to be a much more pleasant way of doing these sorts of things. You might want to check it out.

I modified it pretty heavily, but by now it has incorporated a lot of the types of things I was adding.

It'll work alongside traditional Nagios checks, but the more you drink the check_mk Kool-Aid the happier you'll be. :)

Dustin J. Mitchell: What's New in Amanda: Hackability

nospam@example.com (Dustin J. Mitchell) — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:23:42 -0600

Well, given that it took several years to write that much perl, I doubt very much that a Python rewrite would ever happen.

More to the point, the cost-benefit analysis of that is off by orders of magnitude: if Python doesn't produce any hackers, will we rewrite in Ruby? At that point, we'll have spent a decade rewriting and rewriting with no user-visible benefit.

Of course, if you or someone else want to do a complete rewrite in Python, then we might have something - but that's conservatively 5 person-years of work!

Gour: What's New in Amanda: Hackability

nospam@example.com (Gour) — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 04:46:29 -0600

p.s. SLOC says there is:

perl: 51881 (18.63%)

which is not so bad for Amanda's bright(er) (Python) future. ;)

Maybe something like Cython could be used as well.

Gour: What's New in Amanda: Hackability

nospam@example.com (Gour) — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 04:38:39 -0600

Hi! I'm coming late to the party due to just 'discovering' Amanda, but I tend to agree that Perl over Python was mistake.

Perl might be popular for sysadmin people, but writing admin scripts is, imho, quite different than working on full-fledged application.

Moreover, new programmers are much more often going to chooses to learn Python instead of Perl which I, personally, do not have any reason to learn for except some scripts/tools used by the system.

Maybe it would be interesting to create a poll on the user mailing list asking how many people would consider to help rewriting Amanda in Python vs. Perl?

At least, you're quite comfortable with Python as well. ;)

Dustin J. Mitchell: LCD Display and TMP102 sensor

nospam@example.com (Dustin J. Mitchell) — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 11:48:12 -0600

If you're using multiple TMP102's on the same I2C bus, you'll need to configure each one differently, so that each one has its own address. I'm not sure what you mean when you say "I only get 32F" - is that with just one TMP102 connected, or multiple? If multiple, then most likely all of the sensors are trying to reply at once, which won't work very well.

Steve: LCD Display and TMP102 sensor

nospam@example.com (Steve) — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 11:36:17 -0600

Noob question.

I am trying to run multiple sensors off the arduino and when I combine add0 and GRD as one wire going to ground on the arduino I only get 32F, when I have it go dedicated to the 2nd ground it works as expected.

I am wiring the grounds in parallel so it possible that that is breaking it, or can I somehow address the add0 to a different pin than ground?

Thanks!

Dustin J. Mitchell: roll back a git-svn mirror

nospam@example.com (Dustin J. Mitchell) — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 22:58:44 -0600

Incidentally, at this point you can use a simple

git svn reset -r 1390

and all should be well.

Dustin J. Mitchell: virtualenv for Perl

nospam@example.com (Dustin J. Mitchell) — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 10:59:13 -0600

Good to know - thanks!

Andrew Jones: virtualenv for Perl

nospam@example.com (Andrew Jones) — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 10:51:29 -0600

perlbrew (http://search.cpan.org/~gugod/App-perlbrew-0.15/lib/App/perlbrew.pm) is the closest thing Perl has to vritualenv. local::lib probably wouldn't have helped you that much.

No idea if it has a gentoo build though, but I would blame gentoo for that, not Perl.

Dustin J. Mitchell: Firefox 4.0b7 - a few tweaks

nospam@example.com (Dustin J. Mitchell) — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 17:20:37 -0600

I'm not sure I'll be using panorama, either. I'm going to let it stew for a while and see if it ends up in my workflow, or just ignored.

Aside from occasionally hitting command-space, it stayed out of my way pretty well in beta6. It would be nice to have a configuration option to hide the icon and menu item, though.

celui: Firefox 4.0b7 - a few tweaks

nospam@example.com (celui) — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 17:05:15 -0600

Option-Space was a poor choice (at least for people writing in French, it is the standard combination for unbreakable space, which we should use before colon, semi-colon, interrogation mark, …)

Swipe-up and Swipe-down is one of the reason I love my mac and firefox. Makes me very productive. That was one more bad design choice.

Thanks for the tip. Now, I just need to find how to get rid of Panorama which is the only bad thing in ff4.0