From: Lucian Mogosanu Date: Sat, 18 May 2019 08:39:26 +0000 (+0300) Subject: posts: 090 X-Git-Tag: v0.11~55 X-Git-Url: https://git.mogosanu.ro/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0d3009323ca417868e56c2425c30d0091286a774;p=thetarpit.git posts: 090 --- diff --git a/posts/y05/090-tmsr-work-ii.markdown b/posts/y05/090-tmsr-work-ii.markdown index de16b7f..b5664d5 100644 --- a/posts/y05/090-tmsr-work-ii.markdown +++ b/posts/y05/090-tmsr-work-ii.markdown @@ -1,28 +1,32 @@ --- 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 @@ -34,45 +38,63 @@ arbitrary order: 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 @@ -80,7 +102,6 @@ that much of a difference between the two issues, really. [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 @@ -90,10 +111,16 @@ that much of a difference between the two issues, really. [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