Tarballs of Ion! — zakame’s blog

My dead-trees grokking is paying out I’m observing a lot of stuff here and there in the code that needs my love…

• Hmmm… Sendpage::Device has code that is unsurprisingly similar to Sendpage::Modem. It would be nice if I can combine these together into just one module, then let users import the objects via export tags.
• A lot of variables get made inside the various functions (again, look at Sendpage::Device) that are actually just aliases to hash entries (taken from args to the functions.) I suppose this made the code a bit clearer, but nontheless there’s still a lot of scratchpad pollution going on there :-/
• Docs are lacking… but this is hardly unknown.
• The usual Perl metagoofs: no use warnings and use strict.

There’s still more, soon to come.

Google’s Summer of Code is on! And I’m a part of it!

I’ll be working with my mentor, Kees Cook, on improving the Sendpage alphanumeric pager software for OSDL’s infrastructure events reporting, especially on getting the various modules of the software communicate clearly, improving the documentation, and updating the packages on Debian, Ubuntu, and others. Hopefully, I’ll be able to fulfill my goals for this project, as well as even extending it further for the long term.

/me is now happily grokking the dead-trees version of the source...

Update: You can see my project proposal.

Heh, almost the end of May and I’ve not a post. Well, that’s going to change

There’s a new version of cvs in unstable, courtesy of Steve McIntyre and Yours Truly, responding to the RFH posted earlier. As a new upstream version, it is supposed to fix a lot of bugs, but it seems that a duo of grave and normal have been found :/ Hopefully those wouldn’t be there for long Along with fixing those bugs, I’ll be checking out the rest of the bugs list and start pinging submitters… Hopefully a good few of the old outstanding bugs will get done.

As for my other packages, gtklp got updated (thanks Nutmeg!) to fix Catalan l10n (thanks Lluis!) and updated the autotools update, as well as its (borked) touch-fu. I also got the new gnome-ppp in, thanks to Paul Cupis. Updates to libungif4 and lua50 will follow shortly.