Monday I made two releases: Tomboy 1.3.1 and Snowy 0.1.

Tomboy 1.3.1 is our second development release of the cycle. So far we have been focusing on bug fixing, cleaning out old patches from bugzilla, and removing use of APIs that are deprecated for GNOME 3.0. Some highlights of 1.3.0 and 1.3.1 are:

• New topic-based help from Paul Cutler and others on the GNOME docs team should provide a more useful way to get help when using Tomboy.
  
• Panel applet support is now disabled by default (distributors, please use --enable-panel-applet when configuring) to drop most GNOME 2 dependencies (many thanks to Javier Jardón for this, and Aaron Borden for other API usage updates).
  
• Alejandro Cura added libproxy support to web sync, and there was much rejoicing.
  
• If you're hacking on Tomboy and are sick of having to install to test your changes, you'll be glad to hear that make run finally works again.
  
• We added a couple of hidden preferences that we may expose in the Preferences UI this cycle: hiding the tray icon is handy for folks who use Docky or gnome-do instead of the tray menu (Matthew Pirocchi), and deleting notes without being prompted for confirmation may speed up your workflow (Jeff Stoner).
  
• Brian Mattern fixed a bug noticeable on Ubuntu, where the panel applet wasn't using their fancy new icons.
  
• In bullet list land, Owen Williams fixed an irritating printing bug, and Stefan Schweizer fixed some keyboard navigation issues.

I'm really glad to have so many contributors helping out this cycle, as I've been splitting my time between two babies. First, here's a cute picture of my awesome son Stewart Daniel Kekoa Armstrong, who was born on May 16th:



The other baby is Snowy, the AGPL Django app that will power the upcoming Tomboy Online free web service. We had planned on releasing according to the GNOME schedule, but wanted to wait until we added OpenID support to limit how many times alpha testers need to wipe their databases and start over again. ;-)

So today, I am proud to offer our first development release of Snowy: 0.1, the Chihuahua release. Ripped from the headlines, here are the features:

• An implementation of the Tomboy web sync REST API (the same API that Ubuntu One implements for note sync)
  
• OpenID support, so you can log in with your Google/Launchpad/whatever account
  
• Read-only online note access (notes can be made publicly readable in the admin UI for now)
  
• A friendly Tomboy-like web UI for accessing your notes, supporting rich text, note links, note pinning, full-text search, etc
  
• An initial unit test suite

Although Brad Taylor wrote most of the initial app, and I did a lot of the sync related work, I'd really like to call attention to some of our awesome contributors who have made this release possible:

• Leon Handreke improved our sync code, fixed a ton of our unit tests (on multiple occasions), and added OpenID support so that you can log in with your Google account or any other OpenID, instead of having to remember a new username/password pair for our little service. He also made some slick improvements to our note search UI.
  
• Sander Dijkhuis made improvements to our web UI, improved the ease of testing deployment by adding a fake mail server, and has been active on bugzilla and in IRC helping people work through deployment issues.
  
• Benoit Garrett, Stuart Langridge, and Olivie Le Thanh Duong have made numerous contributions to the REST API, OAuth support, and upstream django-piston, which is the library we use to achieve those features.
  
• We've also had great contributions from Adam Ziolkowski, Andy Duplain, Jordan Keyes, Mike Gorse, Ray Wang, and Shayne Macaulay.
  
• And we'd love to add your name to this list! We need Python hackers, designers, HTML/CSS pros, Javascript wranglers, testers, Django deployment experts...and I could use a babysitter, too.

Please join us in #snowy on GIMPNet, or on our mailing list, and help us bring Tomboy to your web.

I have started working on kiwi2puppet, a tool to convert KIWI image descriptions to Puppet manifests.

The goal is to recycle the data that went into the building of an image and use it for managing a deployed appliance.

So far it is a prototype that can write these resources

• package
• yumrepo
• user
• group

It is written in Ruby, like Puppet.

Source at GitHub: http://github.com/mvidner/kiwi2puppet
RPMs: http://software.opensuse.org/search?q=kiwi2puppet&baseproject=ALL (currently it is a single Ruby script, so at the moment RPMs are not worth any trouble)
Novell Reference: FATE#309497

Get in touch if you're interested.

In case you didn't know:

"The openSUSE KIWI Image System provides a complete operating system image solution for Linux supported hardware platforms as well as for virtualisation systems like Xen Qemu or VMware."

"Puppet is an open source data center automation and configuration management framework. Puppet provides system administrators with a simplified platform that allows for consistent, transparent, and flexible systems management."

Hi!
Today I compared JSON vs XML communication in WebYaST.

Result from previous tests was that bundled reXML parser is slowest from all ;-)
Now I'd like to continue with comparison XML and JSON performance. For this purpose I created webclient json branch in our git repository.


To install profiling extension you'll need to add repository http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/ruby:/extensions/openSUSE_11.2
and install package rubygem-ruby-prof. Also to see results from profiling you'll need kcachegrind package.





On this picture you can see (selected line is xml parsing process) with luck we can speed up 1/5 times (about 1 sec in my case). There's almost no difference between creating json and xml output: Calling http://localhost:4984/groups.xml takes average time 655ms, http://localhost:4984/groups.json takes average time 621.4ms.

Мой дневник включили в ленту блогов русскоязычной планеты SUSE, и этот пост — первый в сообществе openSUSE. Приветствую всех участников и читателей ленты!

The build service (and any other of openSUSE infrastructure software using RoR) is using rails 2.3.5, because we once decided to harmonize on the version of SLE11 SP1. Of course the latest version has less bugs (usually), but mixing RoR versions between different developers and deployment is a nightmare, so we had to decide on one.

Now comes the catch: 11.3 has rails 2.3.8 and as such you can’t develop the build service on factory/11.3 as is. But the good news, openSUSE:Tools has all the right versions, so you can add the repo (zypper ar -r http://r.opensu.se/openSUSE:Tools/f/r) and then install zypper in -f rubygem-rack-1.0.1 rubygem-activesupport-2_3-2.3.5

To make sure, the next zypper dup is not going to take it away, use zypper al rubygem-rack rubygem-activesupport-2_3

Na minha constante preguiça de trocar o papel de parede do GNOME escrevi um script Python p/ fazer isso. A idéia original era colocar a entrada abaixo no cron, mas não deu certo (estou tentando descobrir o porquê): * * */30 * * /usr/bin/python /home/isis/bin/troca_wallpaper.py Por enquanto coloquei na inicialização da sessão (Sistema > Sistema > Sessões). Se eu usar o módulo gconf, recebo um

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O nome completo é "Alla Ricerca della Via Più Breve - Un'Avventura Matematica". É. Grande e envolve matemática. Li em italiano porque foi o que eu consegui arranjar. O curioso é que não é a matemática de segundo grau de colégio, mas tópicos de Ciência da Computação apresentados dentro de uma narrativa.Não existe uma trama central do tipo que você não pode perder o nome de um personagem ou deixar