Archive for June, 2008
question to Git (power)users
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008I’m slowly switching to Git for my personal projects, and I like it more and more. And it seems that I can only find nice things to read about it. So, I’m wondering: what are the things that you dislike with Git? That make you regret/prefer another VCS? If Git was redesigned from scratch, what [...]
Ubuntu divergence
Thursday, June 19th, 2008in main: in universe: Those graphs (found on http://merges.ubuntu.com/) show the number of unmodified vs modified packages in Ubuntu main and universe. Interesting.
Ubuntu information on the Debian Package Tracking System and the Developer Packages Overview
Sunday, June 15th, 2008Users of Debian derivatives sometimes report bugs that are not reported in the Debian BTS, but that also affect Debian. It already happened a few times that looking at the Ubuntu bugs for my packages allowed me to fix an unreported bug in my Debian packages. But it’s difficult to keep track of the status [...]
Text normalizer, anyone?
Monday, June 9th, 2008When I write text documents (using LaTeX or Docbook), I like to wrap lines, as it makes them easier to edit (less things moving on the screen), and allow to have easy-to-read diffs. However, I always hesitate before rewrapping paragraphs (using vim’s gqap): this mean that I will add noise to my git history. So [...]
Datamining Launchpad bugs
Saturday, June 7th, 2008One think that really is annoying with Launchpad is its lack of interfaces with the outside world. No SOAP interface (well, I think that work is being done on this), no easy way to export all bugs. The only way to get all the bug data in a machine-parseable is to first fetch this URL, [...]