Monthly Archives: September 2008

*pop*

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slartibartfast made a nice popping noise and a burning smell started to diffuse from the power supply. A post-mortem will be done tomorrow, hopefully concluding with at least a hard drive with all its data still on it.

In the meantime, I guess I’ll be vacationing while I fix the damn thing. Expect a lack of me being in IRC or doing anything.

Status report and a request for help

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School is taking over my life, again. There’s one catch though — I’m actually enjoying this year. (whoa!)

My English teacher doesn’t suck. In fact, she’s one of the best teachers I’ve ever had, and it’s her first year of teaching.

So, with the increase of schooliness, a decrease in Fedoraness obviously goes down. Here’s my current list of works-in-progress, and if anyone wants to grab one of these and help me out immensely, that would be awesome.

  • Fixing pages on the wiki that really need it. I often don’t have the time to fix some pages that need major fixing, so I shove {{needs love}} on ‘em, and they go in Category:Pages that need love. What I really need is a lot of someones to take a page in, give it some love and whatever it needs to succeed, and remove the {{needs love}} tag.
  • fuse-mediawiki continuing development. The current HEAD of the fuse-mediawiki git repo is broken when opening pages and I can’t figure out why. In addition, I have a few more things considered as “planned features”:
    • shell scripts that act as special pages that come with the filesystem
    • ability to fetch media files (Image:) and category listings
    • lots and lots of bug testing with different wikis
    • possible usage of an external mediawiki API, or writing of our own

    Send me patches, I’ll give ya push access if I like ‘em. Remember that fuse-mediawiki is the potential future of bots for the Fedora Project wiki, and will also allow people to escape the <textarea>, so it’s a good thing for Fedora and the entire MediaWiki community.

  • I’m requesting someone with lots of Python knowledge and an interest in gwibber to be a comaintainer and help make the package stable enough for updates — someone who can work with the upstream developer (an awesome guy, by the way) to help get things working. Inquire within.

So, if you feel like giving a little bit more to the Fedora community, this is a great way to do it — by helping a high school student feel more secure because things are taken care of. Let me know if you’re interested in any of these.