By jefferai|Git, KDE|5 Comments
At various points the sysadmins have gotten a request to have repository tarballs made available. The idea is that some repositories can be very large; I believe test runs of the KOffice conversion produced a repository that is 350MB in size. Once you get this down to your system, updating with new refs is relatively [...]
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Two quick updates on Git stuff: First, we now have three anongit servers in rotation. We could probably make do with 0.25 of a single anongit server at the current load, but that will change quickly once kdelibs and co switch over from SVN, so it’s good to be ready. Second, the generated commit URLs [...]
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I haven’t blogged about updates to the Git infrastructure for a while and it’s *long* overdue, so here goes. There’s a lot and I don’t have much time so I’ll keep things brief. Credit for these items go to the sysadmin team as a whole plus Sitaram (the Gitolite author)… anongit servers We now have [...]
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As you may or may not know, the KDE git infrastructure currently has two assets for viewing repository data — Redmine and gitweb. Redmine powers Projects at http://projects.kde.org and is intended (pending theming and greater population of data) to be the real “home” of all of KDE’s projects, putting project information, news, repository browsing and [...]
Continue Reading →By jefferai|Amarok, KDE|126 Comments
(Update at the bottom.) Some people can’t be helped. Today I saw a post by The Linux Critic. In the post the author, Trent, says “I’m really not a fan of the new Amarok“, which naturally got me curious as to why. After all, if you don’t know what problems people have with your software, [...]
Continue Reading →(At least, AFAIK!) Recently, I have been contributing to another project outside of KDE: the Prosody XMPP server. Prosody is fairly new (the project began in 2008) and is written in Lua. I’ve been using it for a long time now, and it’s a really nice, rock-solid server. The code is also pretty hackable, being [...]
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This post is actually rather after the fact. I’ve been super busy, and my blogging tends to fall way, way behind when that happens. But I wanted to tell people about plans for Amarok Mobile, where things stand now, and what needs to be done. (And how you could help!) First off, I need to [...]
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Quite often — or at least, “often enough” — we get people that want to rescan a particular folder in Amarok. This is usually the result of them changing tags and wanting Amarok to pick it up. (Remember, for efficiency reasons Amarok watches the modified times of the collection directories, not the collection files, so [...]
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A couple of weeks ago I spent a long period of time looking at ways to increase scanning speed. Yes, again. I had written previously (here and here) on changes I’d made to increase the speed of scanning collections, and I’d made a lot of other changes that I didn’t write about. These certainly helped [...]
Continue Reading →By jefferai|Camp KDE, KDE|3 Comments
Philip Bourne, the 2009 Benjamin Franklin Award-winning computational biologist, will be speaking at Camp KDE 2010. Professor Bourne is well-known in his field for contributions to open-source bioinformatics software and is a leading advocate of open access to data. Quoting from the UCSD News Center: Bourne is co-founder of SciVee, the Web 2.0 resource dedicated [...]
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