---
postid: 090
title: Schedule for Republican work, May-June 2019
-date: May 14, 2019
+date: May 18, 2019
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
tags: tmsr
---
-First, let's take a look at the outstanding items on the list, in mostly
-arbitrary order:
+I ended the past few months with [Gutenberg][gutenberg],
+[Feedbot][feedbot] and a lot of [walking][sinaia] [around][mangalia]
+[the country][timisoara]; time to look now at what I'm to do in the next
+few weeks. Let's start with another look at the outstanding items on the
+list, in mostly arbitrary order:
* Cuntoo is [still screaming][sched-cuntoo] to be tested, with ebuilds
- for various stuff to be added etc.; Stan even [sent][btcbase-1900589]
- a neat little laptop for me to test it on, although I'm most probably
- going to have to run the actual bootstrapping on a beefier machine, on
- account of the GCC [6->5->4][btcbase-1757349] fandango.
+ for various stuff to be added etc.; Alf even
+ [sent over][btcbase-1900589] a neat little laptop for me to test it
+ on, although I'm most probably going to have to run the actual
+ bootstrapping on a beefier machine, on account of the GCC
+ [6->5->4][btcbase-1757349] fandango requiring too much memory.
* FFA is [still screaming][sched-ffa] for a (re)read.
* Ircbots (deedbot, auctionbot, feedbot and others) are still
[disconnecting from Fleanode][sched-ircbot-disc] without even
- reconnecting -- even though
- [the code is there][ircbot-genesis-195]. Trinque is
- [still looking at this][btcbase-1908753], there has been some
- discussion on that [Freenode issue][freenode-issue] without much
- action, and overall this particular issue with the bot remains
- unsolved.
+ reconnecting, even though the code for that
+ [is right there][ircbot-genesis-195]. Trinque is
+ [still looking at this][btcbase-1908753]; while I'm keeping an eye on
+ the matter from the maintenance point of view, I myself will probably
+ have to actively debug it in order to determine the cause and a
+ solution.
* Speaking of this, there has been some discussion of
[logging everything on IRC][btcbase-1904208]; this sounded like an
interesting item for my list, but [Lobbes][lobbes] is going to
be sorely needed by Republicans; they include e.g.
[Drakma][sched-drakma] (also used by e.g. [Feedbot][feedparse]), but
also a [HTTPtron][btcbase-1910753] (which Lobbes will
- [also][btcbase-1911562] look into) and a [CL-WHO][btcbase-1911349];
- really, I should have been signing that since [way back when][053],
- but oh well, better late than never.
-* At one point Mircea Popescu came with the idea of implementing an
+ [also][btcbase-1911562] [look into][lobbes-clwww]) and a
+ [CL-WHO][btcbase-1911349]; really, I should have signed that
+ [way back when][053], but well, better late than never.
+* Recently Mircea Popescu came with the idea of implementing an
[image pastebin][btcbase-1900506], which really, could just be a
[file pastebin][btcbase-1911344]; item needs to be properly specced
- and implemented by yours truly, for now we know it depends on the
+ and implemented by yours truly, right now we know it depends on the
HTTPtron item.
* My blog software is [still screaming][sched-blog] to be genesized,
signed etc. This depends on a couple of WWW items being published
first.
-* What else? Well, there was some hardware stuff I was going to look
- into at some point, there's stuff I want to translate, old logs I want
- to read, plus other cultural debt and others that oughta help me get
- on my own two feet. Did I miss anything?
+* More recently Mircea Popescu [came up][btcbase-1911767] with the idea
+ of starting a Romanian political party centered around TMSR ideology,
+ and well... I'm living in the place, for one; and as for the other,
+ I'm thinking it'd be genuinely fun to do something other than tech
+ work for a change. The problem's on one hand that, as
+ [Diana points out][btcbase-1911825], and as can be easily seen above,
+ there's a lot of work to be done on the technical front, and who's
+ gonna do that in my stead? and on the other, that I
+ [need to][btcbase-1911878] first become more familiar with the subject
+ matter.
+* What else? Well, there was some hardware stuff, e.g. FG design, I was
+ going to look into at some point, there are articles I want to
+ translate, old logs I want to read, plus cultural debt and others that
+ oughta help me get on my own two feet. Did I miss anything?
As the reader can see, the list is considerably large, not even
accounting for all the things that I don't remember. Thus, I will plan
-not for one, but for two major items for the following period:
+not for one, but for two items for the following period:
-* WWWisms: a. studying Hunchentoot, possibly other HTTP servers, and
- syncing up with Lobbes on this task -- one of us will have to publish
- a genesis sooner rather than later; b. rereading [CL-WHO][cl-who] and
- publishing a genesis. Based on my previous experience with said items,
- I will give a generous estimate of two weeks for this.
+* WWWisms: a\. rereading [CL-WHO][cl-who] and publishing a genesis; and
+ b\. studying [TBNL][tbnl], [Hunchentoot][hunchentoot], possibly other
+ HTTP server-side artifacts, and syncing up with Lobbes on this task --
+ one of us will have to publish a genesis sooner rather than
+ later. Based on my previous experience with said items, I will give a
+ generous estimate of two weeks for this.
* Specifying and estimating the time needed to implement an image
pastebin: shouldn't take more than a week, really (although really, it
could take as little as one day).
* Getting Cuntoo bootstrapped, or, at the very least, publishing some
experimental results on this: hard to say, running the scripts doesn't
take long, but I'll have to read them, understand what's going on
- there and so on, so I'll give this another week.
+ there and so on, so I'll give this another one to two weeks.
-Ok, three items. So based on the estimates above, I should be back here
-about next month this time, although experience shows that delays often
-occur, either because of imperial business trying to swallow me whole,
-or due to [urgent stuff][gutenberg] popping up -- I suspect there's not
-that much of a difference between the two issues, really.
+Well, three items. So based on the estimates above, I should be back
+here about next month this time -- although experience shows that delays
+may occur, either caused by imperial business trying to swallow me
+whole, or due to imperial rot trying to swallow
+[other things of importance][gutenberg]. I'm still working on my
+estimates; and same as Lobbes, at the end of this round I'll just
+[circle back][lobbes-outro] to the list above.
+[gutenberg]: /posts/y05/088-gutenberg-iv.html
+[feedbot]: /posts/y05/08c-feedbot-iii.html
+[sinaia]: /posts/y05/08d-sinaia.html
+[mangalia]: /posts/y05/08e-mangalia.html
+[timisoara]: /posts/y05/08f-timisoara.html
[sched-cuntoo]: /posts/y05/082-tmsr-schedule-i.html#selection-144.0-144.5
[btcbase-1900589]: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-03-06#1900589
[btcbase-1757349]: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-23#1757349
[sched-ircbot-disc]: /posts/y05/082-tmsr-schedule-i.html#selection-100.0-100.10
[ircbot-genesis-195]: http://btcbase.org/patches/ircbot-genesis#L195
[btcbase-1908753]: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-04-17#1908753
-[freenode-issue]: http://trilema.com/2019/the-freenode-issue/
[btcbase-1904208]: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-03-24#1904208
[lobbes]: http://lobbesblog.com/
[btcbase-1910423]: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-05-01#1910423
[feedparse]: /posts/y05/087-feedparse.html#selection-300.0-300.1
[btcbase-1910753]: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-05-02#1910753
[btcbase-1911562]: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-05-06#1911562
+[lobbes-clwww]: http://blog.lobbesblog.com/2019/05/hopper-update-may-2019/#selection-76.0-76.7
+[btcbase-1911767]: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-05-08#1911767
+[btcbase-1911825]: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-05-08#1911825
+[btcbase-1911878]: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-05-08#1911878
[btcbase-1911349]: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-05-06#1911349
[053]: /posts/y03/053-i-wrote-a-blog.html
[btcbase-1900506]: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-03-05#1900506
[btcbase-1911344]: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-05-06#1911344
[sched-blog]: /posts/y05/082-tmsr-schedule-i.html#selection-184.0-184.7
[cl-who]: https://edicl.github.io/cl-who/
-[gutenberg]: /posts/y05/088-gutenberg-iv.html
+[tbnl]: http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=tbnl
+[hunchentoot]: http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=hunchentoot
+[lobbes-outro]: http://blog.lobbesblog.com/2019/05/hopper-update-may-2019/#selection-116.0-116.3
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