Over the line - fedora

IsItFedoraRuby new design

axil — Wed, 30 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0300

The past week I tried to do something about the looks of isitfedoraruby. It was fun using bootstrap (my first time) and I think the outcome is cool. I tried to use Fedora like colors and the font is Liberation Sans, same as Fedora pkgdb.

You can check the overall …

isitfedoraruby gsoc midterm sum up

axil — Sun, 13 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0300

This sums up my past month involvement with the project. A lot of reading in between...

Changelog
Rails/Ruby style guide
Tests
Bugs fixed
Enhancements
- Show more info in fedorarpm show page
- Rake tasks

Changelog

I added a changelog so …

Rails development tools

axil — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0300

During the past two months I have been reading constantly about Rails and how I could get more productive when writing code and testing my apps. There is a ton of information about those matters on the web and I'll try to include as many articles as I could find …

Rubocop to the rescue!

axil — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0300

I decided to drop the GSoC related titles and focus on the things that I work during the week. That means I'll probably blog more often :p

This week I mostly focused on cleaning the code of fedoraruby and conforming to the ruby/rails community guidelines.

The gem that helps …

GSoC-2014 isitfedoraruby - Week 3

axil — Mon, 09 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0300

Testing, testing, testing. Diving into BDD for the first time can be a little tedious but you sure learn a lot. In the ruby/rails world there is a ton of excellent tools to help you test your app. Some more popular than the others. I'm no exception so I …

GSoC-2014 isitfedoraruby - Week 2

axil — Tue, 03 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0300

Here's what I've been doing last week.

Previous week

Architecture analysis

Getting to know an app from the ground up takes some time, especially if that's a framework you are not too familiar with. Luckilly, I found the railroady gem that helped me visualize how the app is structured, you …

GSoC-2014 isitfedoraruby - Week 1

axil — Tue, 27 May 2014 00:00:00 +0300

In case you haven't heard, I have been accepted again this year for Google Summer of Code :) This time I will be working on enhancing a Rails app that provides information about the state of rubygem packaging in Fedora.

isitfedoraruby is a project that was crafted in GSoC 2012 by …

GSoC - Weekly update 11 and 12

axil — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0300

So far, I managed to deploy GitLab on a Fedora 19 machine using only packaged gems either from the official repos or a custom one I have created.

Below you will find some more info as well as the url of the testing environment. You can use/test it and …

GSoC - Weekly update 9 and 10

axil — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 00:00:00 +0300

I've been busy the past two weeks with some personal stuff so I got a little behind. Here's what happened in the GitLab front.

Finish packaging remaining gems
GitLab deploy
Coordinate packaging with Debian
TODO

Finish packaging remaining gems

Now, all (hopefully) runtime dependencies are packaged and pushed in my …

SELinux policy for nginx and GitLab unix socket in Fedora 19

axil — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 00:00:00 +0300

The installation of GitLab in Fedora 19 went fine. I followed the official installation guide with some deviations where necessary, mostly taken from the CentOS guide in gitlab-recipes. I setup nginx using the ssl config, and poked some holes in iptables. For systemd services I used these files.

So, everything …

GSoC - Weekly update 7 and 8

axil — Tue, 13 Aug 2013 00:00:00 +0300

The past week or so, I have been trying to package every gem GitLab needs, in Fedora 19. This is something I should have done from the start, but better late than never. Now that I have quite learnt the rubygem packaging process, I follow a certain workflow that gets …

GSoC - Weekly update 6

axil — Tue, 30 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0300

Here is what I have been doing the past week.

Packages
Update to GitLab 5.4

Packages

charlock_holmes

Pending review

This one gave me some headaches as it is a gem with c extensions and as it turned out I didn't ship the soname in the …

GSoC - Weekly update 5

axil — Mon, 22 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0300

I can't believe that a month has already passed! I keep learning new things, mostly on packaging, and the cool fact is that many of them are through my Review Requests. The discussion between the reviewer and the reviewee can sometimes be very productive leading to learning new things I …

I got approved as a packager, now what?

axil — Sun, 21 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0300

This must have been the most intense week in terms of learning how the build system/process work in Fedora. I finally got approved as a packager and that means more responsibility from my side. Unfortunately, the instrusctions in the wiki are sometimes sparsed into different places and one has …

GSoC - Weekly update 3 and 4

axil — Tue, 09 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0300

Here is what I have been doing the last two weeks.

Work on packages
Gems and their versions in json format
Version table in wiki
Init repository
Rubygem packaging article
TODO next week

Work on packages

I ran gem2rpm on all gems and saved their specs …

GSoC - Weekly update 2

axil — Tue, 02 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0300

Unfortunately this week hasn't been very productive due to lack of time. I managed to package 5-6 more gems, but I haven't submit them in Bugzilla yet. As always, the most difficult and time consuming task is to make all the test suites provided with each gem pass. And believe …

GSoC - Weekly update 1

axil — Tue, 25 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0300

It's been over a week that GSoC started and here is a weekly report of what achieved so far.

Weekly process

Workflow

Trello board - This is a web app in which you can manage your workflow by adding tasks that are to be completed. I set it up to remind …

Accepted for GSoC 2013

axil — Mon, 27 May 2013 00:00:00 +0300

Sooo, I am happy to announce that I got accepted to this year's Google Summer of Code! Couldn't be more happy right now :)

For those that have no idea, here is my proposal on Fedora's wiki (my user). I have in mind to make a follow post on how I …

Bringing GitLab to Fedora

axil — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0300

Update: I just got a confirmation mail that my proposal got accepted! Read here.

So, I decided to write some info regarding my involvement for this year's Google Summer of Code. I have been using/testing GitLab since version 2.0 (almost a year now) and I am thrilled to …