http://alec.scriptkitty.com/blog Natterings of an SA Sat, 17 May 2008 17:52:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Alon Bl has left the project (the mail hasn't hit archives.gentoo.org or I'd link you). In his resignation he stated that he had problems with other developers and that was a big part of his leaving. He talks about a lack of leadership, of goals, and of user ... http://alec.scriptkitty.com/blog/2008/05/13/growing-pains-part-deux/ I have not worked on gstats in a while and it definately needed some improvements. I found myself struggling with the UI a lot and after chatting with Graff on irc I decided to drop the webUI entirely and go RESTful. Ewwww REST.... I actually hate REST because all ... http://alec.scriptkitty.com/blog/2008/05/12/more-gstats/ I moved recently, new place is a house; no real room to run cables all over, has wireless intarwebs. I bought a usb wireless adapter thingiemabob for my desktop because it needed internet access (for the past few weeks i have been relying on my work laptop, which is ... http://alec.scriptkitty.com/blog/2008/05/03/bloated-tree-new-pkgcore-zd1211rw-wireless-driver-ratpoison/ philantrop, spb, and rbrown have had their developer rights revoked. There is little information as to exactly why (certainly there have been past allegation of improper behavior by these developers and repeated complaints to council@gentoo.org). I have made a formal request to the council for more information regarding this matter. I ... http://alec.scriptkitty.com/blog/2008/04/28/actionable-actions/ Wordpress, now with less security problems! (finally upgraded from old to quasi new). I'm sure someone will find another exploit soon (how you can cram so many exploits into blogging software is beyond me). I really neglect this blog :) That being said; work has been super busy lately. I ... http://alec.scriptkitty.com/blog/2008/04/09/upgrades-updates-moo/ So I wanted stats on who was using what. I decided to get there. The gentoo stats code that was previously written is fine but I thought would not suit my needs. My goals were: * Finish in under 14 days. * Non-complicated * Easy * Fast enough I came up with ... http://alec.scriptkitty.com/blog/2008/03/13/gentoo-stats-redux/ Daniel offered to take over portions of the Gentoo Foundation and oversee specific aspects of Gentoo development. I don't see how he ever expected a decent answer to his offer; it had a time limit of seven days. Moreso, it was delivered via a blog, possibly not the ... http://alec.scriptkitty.com/blog/2008/01/21/blog-wars-the-empire-strikes-back/ It's that shining time of year again where Gentoo Devs stop being sane mature people and start acting like 5 year olds. It happens every year (sometimes more than once) and it amazes me that people who are normally quite sane and rational beings can throw it all away ... http://alec.scriptkitty.com/blog/2007/11/04/that-guy-is-such-an-asshat-and-so-are-you/ So I see the bug about packages.gentoo.org continuously gets more people CC'd and people complain about the service being down. Luckily a few users have actually realized the reality of the situation: packages.gentoo.org is open source, requires open source components, and requires a freely available copy of the gentoo-x86 ... http://alec.scriptkitty.com/blog/2007/09/12/being-a-meanie-having-high-software-standards/ I had a random idea, add (yet another) post-commit hook that sends a request to this 'application' with the diff. The application then stores the diff. Gentoo Users and Developers can critique the diff, offering suggestions on how to improve the code as well as advice in areas were the code is crap. This ... http://alec.scriptkitty.com/blog/2007/08/15/code-reviews-post-commit/