So if you like my Ninja Style Geeko, feel free to vote for me, your votes will be very appreciated :-)

pgFouine in openSUSE Contrib

I have created a package with pgFouine and this package is now in openSUSE Contrib repository, so if you feel like you need to optimize your PostgreSQL applications feel free to install pgFouine directly from Contrib to any of yours openSUSE machine, download log from server and get it analyzed so you can see where is a space for optimizations.

Věřím, že pokud na kartičku necháte napsat nějaký rým od srdce, tak že kytice potěší už jen kvůli tomu, že jste měli chuť toho druhého potěšit. A kvůli tomu, že jde vidět, že na něj myslíte. Takže pokud jste časově vytížení a nemůžete doručit nějaký roztomilý dárek osobně, možná se vám můj odkaz jednou bude hodit.

Osobně se nemůžu dočkat až nastane interval I <11:00;14:00> dnešního dne. :-)

So, thank you so much Erik for everything you’ve done on that driver and I am glad I could help you with development of that driver, because now I see it wasn’t a wasted time and I am looking forward to new openSUSE release where will be a newer kernel with this driver working out of box!

If I will have opportunity to meet you in person I will buy you a beer! :)

Neberte mě špatně, člověka to samozřejmě potěší, když vidí, že je o něj na trhu práce zájem. Ale občas je to prostě už moc. Svou profesní kariéru jsem oficiálně započal před 3 měsíci, předtím jsem pracoval většinou jako free lancer v různých oblastech IT od programování až po správu IT infrastruktury pro známé mých rodičů, kteří měli firmy o pár serverech a pár desítkách desktopů. Všechno samozřejmě na Linuxu, maximálně s nějakou tou virtualizací…

Skoro před 3 měsíci jsem však začal pracovat v jedné IT korporaci a od té doby mi chodí docela hodně různých dalších nabídek, některé jsou lepší než má současná pozice (a to i o docela hodně a tím nemyslím jen peníze, ale taky zajímavost takové práce) jiné jsou finančně horší, ale fakt je ten, že těch nabídek je opravdu spousta. I předtím, než jsem začal pracovat tam kde pracuju jsem občas měl nějakou tu nabídku, ale rozhodně to nebylo tak jako teďka. Například v pátek mi přišla jedna nabídka na nejmenovanou pozici v Praze, dneska mi přišla nabídka na další pozici v Brně…

Chtěl bych se tak zeptat, taky čelíte neustálému náporu nabídek od různých headhunterů? Pokud ano je to stálý nápor, nebo se zrovna teďka s nabídkama roztrhl pytel a běžně jich tolik nebývá?

New version of package is released advertising

When package maintainer is maintaining a lot of packages it is hard to keep packages up-to-date because he first have to notice that new version of program has been released. So I think it would be really, really cool to have a plug-in based architecture in Build Service to advertise every new release of package for maintainers, how it should work? Simply…

Some kind of daemon should be running on some build service server (like we have a dispatcher daemon, publisher daemon, schedulers,..) and it should be able to send an e-mail to a package maintainers if new version of such a package was released. But problem is, there are a lot of sites where new software versions is being announced and not every program is being announced at one place. So plug-in based architecture is probably needed…

When implementing this feature student should implement daemon itself, integrate it into OBS frontend/backend, osc client (osc adv[ertisement] on [project] [package-name] and create at least plug-in for programs that are being announced via Freahmeat and own RSS feed.

CRAN packages in Education project

CRAN is something like CPAN, but not for perl, but for R-project, it is a website where almost all R-project packages are being collected and I think it would be really nice to have most of those packages integrated in Education project, because R is being utilized in education and research as a statistical tool and even more…

A lot of work around R-project has been done in my project home:m4r3k:R-project in OBS, but since I am “happily employed” I don’t have so much time to work on that anymore.

Student should implement set of scripts which can help maintaining CRAN modules (cran2spec would be cool) probably in python/perl, whatever he likes and what is standard part of openSUSE and other distributions. After that he should update outdated packages in my repository, fix broken packages and probably get some help with testing (I can help with such a testing, but because there are over thousand of modules wider tester community is still needed) and push those tested packages into Education and/or Contrib repository.

Also it would be cool to have some kind of module, that can advertise maintainer when new version of module is released. See openSUSE Build Service projects if you’re interested only in this part.

With some set of scripts it should not be hard to maintain a lot of CRAN packages, because build process is almost same for every single one. So after completion of first task work can be done really quickly.

Porting openSUSE to ARM platform

ARM processors are planed to be used in netbooks very widely and both Ubuntu and Xandros announced they are going to work on ARM port of distributions and I think openSUSE should not miss that opportunity.

Interested?

Are you interested in any of ideas I described here or you have your own idea and you think I am good mentor for such a ideas? Go ahead and contact me, during my mentoring I can offer a lot of my skills and a lot of time, I mean I have no problem to spend with you couple (3 - 4) of hours every day helping you with your problems. In last case of ARM build I can also offer some resources like Build Service cross build platform on my own machines, I should be also able to get some testers with real ARM machines. But sadly I don’t think they will be able to provide such devices to you, but they can surely test your products and report bugs. :-)

In case you’re not sure if you can participate read FAQ, or ask at GSoC@Freenode IRC channel or feel free to contact me and I will try to figure it out.

So how do you like this sad song? :-) Do you know any other so funny computers related songs? And please do not link Free software song… I think you know why :)

Věřím tomu, že existence lidí, kteří se sdružují kolem Dělnické strany je problém, ano! Ale tím že jim zakážete veřejně se shromažďovat nedokážete vůbec nic, akorát se budou muset více schovávat a tím bude těžší je monitorovat. Je to jako s různými jinými pochybnými existencemi, raději budu vědět, že můj soused je rasistický, nacionalistický imbecil, než aby přepadl nějakého mého zahraničního kamaráda s jinou barvou kůže zcela nečekaně, když příjde na návštěvu.

Second one package is python-ontapi, that is unofficial python binding for ONTAP SDK, using this API, you can easily access your NetApp filers and other devices from Network Appliance, Inc. using your favorite scripting language - python. Only NaServer and NaElement are available, but I think it is enough for most of scripts. There is not python-ontapi related documentation, but if you have any NetApp filer you can download official SDK directly from NetApp now page and there is documentation for Java interface, and Java interface is almost same as that Python one. Here is an example of usage, just simple thing from SDK documentation rewrited into python.

#!/usr/bin/python
 
# Get version number from running filter
 
from ontapi.NaServer import *
from ontapi.NaElement import *
import ConfigParser
 
config = ConfigParser.RawConfigParser()
config.read('config.ini')
server = NaServer(config.get('server','fqdn'))
server.setAdminUser(config.get('server','login'), config.get('server','password'))
 
cmd = NaElement('system-get-version')
results = server.invokeElem(cmd)
 
print results.getChildContent('version')