Developers' Blogs: IroNiQ

Well, most users know i started to bump xorg to 7.4. Originaly it's ready, but... But we realized that there were big changes in basic libraries that are used by all graphical applications.
What does this mean?
This means that xorg 7.4 will not reach 1.0. We have to rebuild almost the half of the current repo to get working with xorg 7.4 and can be done only after 1.0 released (because of the long time of the rebuild).

As most of the devels know, i'm back again. But i have no own packages, i maintain slin's packages till he has not enough time to do it. And i maintain the x86_64 buildserver (called helicon) again.
Another thing: i created a testing bts, where you can test the changes of Flyspray before applying to the "stable" BTS. The current version is a development version of 0.9.9, but the final 1.0.0 is coming very soon, so i don't want to upgrade now, i'd like to wait for the final release. So please test the current version of the test site and tell me here, in comment or in email to iron (a) ironiq dot hu.
One another thing: there will be another i686 buildserver available. Now i'm waiting for the M/B and a HDD, other things are here, so if the last part will be arrived, i can install it and can go to its location. Maybe the whole procedure will end in 2-3 weeks.

As you can read the previous post, Boobaa "released" "fwlive-0.2-kde-i686".
But!
I was FwLive's maintainer. I have NOT released 0.2 officially by now. And did not want to release it, because i wanted to hack a bit and also there were changes that i wanted to implement. That's the first thing i wanted to tell. The second is a response to boobaa's post: I got only a few comment about what to do, what to change and what to remove from fwlive. I also had no time to work with it and wanted to work with it this week. Boobaa made main changings in fwlive, for example: the default language got hu_HU in his version (this is not a good idea in an international distrib), hardened scrolling mouse driver (imps/2) into xorg.conf (that isn't also a good idea), removed non-X startup handling and so on. This "release" was the last point. I canceled all of the maintainership i was working with (exept server maintanance), so everyone can do with my packages everything.
I'd like to thank the help of my users.

Today i did the upgrade. There was a small database cleanup (fortunately this was more simplier now then the testing was) before the upgrade. That's why the upgrade was faster then i thought. After this i copied the files from the testing BTS and the main things were ok. After small changes the site got its current status. So, the new BTS is ready to work.

Due noone send me bugreport about the new testing BTS, i decided to upgrade the main BTS (http://bugs.frugalware.org). The upgrade will start on Monday (17th July) and will last approx. 2-3 days (i hope so). During this time the BTS will NOT be available, because i have to clean the database and upgrade it.

Please be patient during this time.

Well, maybe some of you have seen the test BTS. Now it's upgraded to the devel version. I also added a small feature into it (and accepted by the author, so that will be available soon in svn). So maybe it will be available soon on the main site.

Helicon downtime:
At this weekend there will be a complete network donwtime at out x86_64 buildserver's network provider. The downtime will be on 8-9th of July (this weekend). Because of this, helicon won't be available from saturday morning till sunday evening (or so). We hope everything will go well and won't be any problem or slippage. Please don't start longer builds that cannot end on Friday. Thanks...

BTS upgrade
I started upgrading our BTS to a newer version. But this is not as easy as i'd like to. I realized that a previous upgrade changed the database structure a bit. I copied to a new one and cleaned it and as i could see, without any problem. But i'm not sure about it, so please test it and report on frugalware-devel mailing list. The test page is available here: bugs.ironiq.hu.

Because of unknown reason the sw raid1 broke up and the OS could not start correctly. With the local sysadmin i started working on the problem, but the buildserver won't be available tomorrow and if the problem cannot be solved, then on weekend, too. Sorry for the long timeout. Also the darcsweb is affected.

As you know, I'm on creating the new webpage for Frugalware. Well, some days ago i've got a big help, AlexExtreme. He created a new layout for the webpage and helped me to port the current fwng code to the new layout. Till he created this, i've made the rss, roadmap, authors, about, screenshot and the news page. Also the news page has a new feature: the news can be shown individually. Now we are working on simplifying the page access with mod_rewrite. Please see the page and comment it here or on #frugalware irc channel.

This week the translation to czech language is started. The webpages is almos ready, now maybe comes the NEWS file or other translations (pacman and so).

AlexExtreme started comtributing to the new webpage. He has got some idea, me too. The base of the new news system is ready, i just have to implement to the webpage. I think next week or so there will be some viewable thing.