neuroscience/fedora/musings
I've been a package maintainer for quite a while now. Yet, it was just about a minute ago, that I learnt of the "easyfix" key word. Here's how I ran into it:
20:27 Is there a way to identify fedora bugs on bugzilla which can be dealt by people …
Most package maintainers already know this (or use something way easier), but this is how I go about updating all my fedora package git folders:
[ankur@ankur ~]$ cd Documents/work/repos/others/fedora-packages/ [ankur@ankur fedora-packages]$ ls aeskulap dcm4che-test fpaste hiran-perizia-fonts libmpd memaker OpenNL python-hl7 subversion trash-cli cmake detex freemedforms …
I've been having trouble with the wordpress web interface lately. It doesn't work well with Pentadactyl (a firefox VIM add-on I can't survive without). I'm testing out new blog clients, starting with blogtk. Hello world!?
I use Alexandria for keeping a record of all the books I buy/read/loan. It has a nifty feature where you can export your libraries as HTML files. I've published them.Have a look! It's only a subset, costituting books I've read since the second half the last year …
I got a feature request for the free-media tool that I've been working on. Benedikt Schäfer asked me if resolving a ticket in the tool could also change the ticket status on the trac. While this is on the TODO already, I sat up last night and looked into it …
Of late, I've had to deal with the fact that people believe that the driving force behind me applying for the fedora medical GSoC last year was only money. I address the matter in this post.
Susmit had initiated the fedora medical SIG in an attempt to make a fedora …
I've managed to get most of the functionality coded up. Here's what ffmtool -h looks like now (on my system):
[ankur@ankur ~]$ ffmtool -h
[+] Parsing available options from config file: /home/ankur/.config/fedora-free-media-tool/config.cfg
Usage: ffmt [Options] [args]...
A tool to assist Fedora free-media contributors.
Without options, it …I had earlier posted on keeping your notes in sync with your android phone. This involved an ftp client and a tiny shell script. I've run into Snowy recently, and I think it would be great to have an instance on fedora infra for the community. If you haven't already …
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I'm the one of the moderators of askfedora. Of late, I've seen a lot of new questions come in. I've observed that most of these do not make correct use of the forum and therefore am outlining the good practices of using it here: