Debian: Misuse of Outreachy for Dating, Junichi Uekawa, Enrico Zini, Sven Hoexter, and AppImageLauncher in SparkyLinux (UPDATED)
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Debian Disguised Work: Paul Tagliamonte & Debian Outreachy OPW dating
Outreachy was formerly known as Outreach Program for Women (OPW).
Here we have a discussion from the debian-private (leaked) gossip network about one of the candidates.
We frequently discuss keysigning on public mailing lists. Why did Tagliamonte have this discussion on debian-private? Coincidentally, why are there so few women on debian-private to monitor these discussions?
Subject: Re: OPW Student in Kingston, Jamaica Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 13:39:12 -0500 From: Paul Tagliamonte
To: Joachim Breitner CC: debian-private@lists.debian.org On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 06:37:36PM +0000, Joachim Breitner wrote: > Hi, > > Am Montag, den 25.11.2013, 13:18 -0500 schrieb Paul Tagliamonte: > > She's got a PhD, so I think this could also be a good beersigning, if > > she drinks. > not having a PhD yet I wonder what expects me: Will I be a better > drinker after I get the degree? Or a better keysigner? /me is confused. It simply means she's likely of age in her jurisdiction. All I was saying is that she's not a high school student. Cheers, Paul -- .''`. Paul Tagliamonte : :' : Proud Debian Developer `. `'` 4096R / 8F04 9AD8 2C92 066C 7352 D28A 7B58 5B30 807C 2A87 `- http://people.debian.org/~paultag -
Junichi Uekawa: Draw graph of number of commits.
Draw graph of number of commits. I thought I had lots of commits this month for Chrome OS.
To count those, all merged commits have committer Chromeos LUCI. To get the timestamp of the commits, git log --committer="Chromeos LUCI" --pretty=%ct . gives me the list of timestamps. UNIX timestamp can be parsed with datetime.fromtimestamp, and then that array can be processed with density graph plot or histogram plotting tool, such as plt.hist.
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Enrico Zini: Handling keyboard-like devices
I acquired some unusual input devices to experiment with, like a CNC control panel and a bluetooth pedal page turner.
These identify and behave like a keyboard, sending nice and simple keystrokes, and can be accessed with no drivers or other special software. However, their keystrokes appear together with keystrokes from normal keyboards, which is the expected default when plugging in a keyboard, but not what I want in this case.
I'd also like them to be useable via libinput and accessible by my own user.
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Sven Hoexter: What's wrong in IT: commit messages
In my day job someone today took the time in the team daily to explain his research why some of our configuration is wrong. He spent quite some time on his own to look at the history in git and how everything was setup initially, and ended up in the current - wrong - way. That triggered me to validate that quickly, another 5min of work. So we agreed to change it. A one line change, nothing spectacular, but lifetime was invested to figure out why it should've a different value.
When the pull request got opened a few minutes later there was nothing of that story in the commit message. Zero, nada, nothing.
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AppImageLauncher in SparkyLinux
There is a new application available for Sparkers: AppImageLauncher What is AppImageLauncher? AppImageLauncher is a novel and unique solution of integrating with the system. It intercepts all attempts to open an AppImage to provide its integration features. Being the launcher for AppImages, AppImageLauncher can control how the system treats AppImages.
UPDATE
Tagliamonte now out of work:
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Paul Tagliamonte: Open to work!
I decided to leave my job (Principal Software Engineer) after 4 years. I have no idea what I want to do next, so I’ve been having loads of chats to try and work that out.