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Darkserver, a GNU build-id details provider web-service (Idea currently in...
In Fedora 8 we had a feature of adding BuildID Support. Darkserver is a service written to help people finding details of build-id(s). People will be able query the service based on build-id(s) or rpm...
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2 days of Fedora and python workshops in Durgapur
With help from local dgplug members we had 2 days of workshops on February 17th and 18th. The idea was to introduce Fedora to the new students and various tools which they can use to develop their...
View ArticleMichael Foord’s python-mock for testing
The project page is here. Why you need it ? Say you are writing unittests for your favourite application and in some function you are using xmlrpclib module to interact with a web-application. Now for...
View ArticleDarkserver in production
In the last few days we managed to get Darkserver live in production. Thanks to Nirik and Dgilmore, without their help it was not possible. This service is providing the API(s) based on which other...
View ArticleDay 1 of FUDCON KL 2012
Getting up early in the morning, eating breakfast while sleeping is the most common thing of every event’s day 1. It was exactly the same, but we managed to start from the hotel to the FUDCon venue on...
View ArticleFUDCon KL day 2 and day 3
Day 2 started with a talk from Joshua Wulf about the Fedora book written by the attendees. The idea seems to easy enough for the newbies to contribute but still they will require a bit knowledge of...
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Full Clojure stack in Fedora, another F18 feature
Last night in the FESCo meeting the feature proposal of having a full Clojure stack got accepted. Yon can find the feature page here. /me and hircus are currently working on this and more help are...
View ArticleNew importer design for darkserver
Previously darkserver project had a koji plugin, which used to collect the information from the koji-hubs itself. It used to process each rpm, find ELF files and extract GNU BUILD-ID from them. But the...
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Python development on 2nd October
logging.config.listen() in Lib/logging/config.py, doctstring updated with more description. Issue #15452 Added verify option for logging configuration socket listener. Now we have a verify argument...
View ArticlePython development on 3rd October
Issue #12947: Better workaround for the problem with doctest directives being stripped from code examples that are intended to illustrate those directives Concrete examples can be seen in the section...
View ArticlePython development on 4th October
Issue #16130: Typo fixed in whats new in 3.4 Issue #16126: PyErr_Format format mismatch in _testcapimodule.c PyErr_Format in Modules/_testcapimodule.c uses illegal format specifier (%s) for Py_ssize_t...
View ArticlePython development on 5th October
Pushed PEP 428 – object-oriented filesystem paths. This PEP proposes the inclusion of a third-party module, `pathlib`_, in the standard library. The aim of this library is to provide a simple hierarchy...
View ArticleAbout the Pyhton development blog posts series
I am writing these summary posts about the code committed to cpython everyday by the core developers. I am doing this for the checkins in IST, so they will contain patches from previous day also. I...
View ArticlePython development on 8th October
Use setUpClass() and tearDownClass() in test_multiprocessing. Each manager test class now uses a separate manager. Also, process pools are no longer created before starting any tests. Note that...
View Articleipython qtconsole in Fedora
If you want to use ipython qtconsole in Fedora 17 or in Fedora 16, remember to install ipython-gui package. This will be automatically handled in Fedora 18 onwards.
View Articleretask development update
This foss.in I managed to have long chats with Jace, Tarique and Mahendra over the design of retask project, a job/task queue for Python. We discussed about various alternatives available and how they...
View ArticleJob/Task queue quick tutorial using retask
Here is one quick tutorial of Job/Task queue using retask You need to first install retask & redis-py from pypi. $ pip install retask redis Then start the redis server (if it is not already...
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