Well not directly, but MySQL is and they will also accept our projects. So if you are student interested in getting some money for improving free software, you're welcome to contact us. We have written down our ideas to wiki, but feel free to come with your own thought. But don't forget that deadline is this Monday!
While talking about this improving phpMyAdmin, phpMyAdmin team would also like to take part in Hackontest, so vote and suggest there features for us! If you have no idea for phpMyAdmin, Debian is also taking part there ;-).
I handle bug reports and email communication as soon as possible, but it does not mean that it may take month or even more to get reply. I'm not working full time on my free software projects, I do it only in my free time. Besides this I have regular job and I also have a real life with another hobbies.
So if you wrote me something, just try to be patient, sending another emails to urge your issue won't help anybody. I will just have more unread mail to process until I get to real work.
Even though I don't feel really good due to personal life, I decided to relelase Photo uploader0.6. If you don't know this tool yet, it is helper to upload photos (or images) over net. It was created when I became too lazy to upload hundreds of photos to digilab, but generally it can support any service which allows you uploading of whatever using HTML forms.
News in this release:
New version of simple todo manager called Ukolovnikhas been just released. There are no major changes in this release compared to 0.9, it mostly happened to indicate that this small piece of code has reached some level of stability and wanted level of features.
As I use Drupalfor Czech phpMyAdmin pages, it was only a matter of time till I will have (or want) to add some functionality. My first Drupal module is quite trivial, but anyway I already got positive feedback on it just after committing to Drupal CVS :-). Today I finished little cleanup which my initial version required and I decided to make a first release out of it.
And what I'm still talking about? It's a module for adding measuring code for various web auditing systems used in Czechia. I didn't wanted to hack this somehow into templates and module which will provide block with those looks as best solution to me. You can get it on Drupal pages.
This is not about any particular project, but more a generic thought. When should be something considered to be stable enough to be released as 1.0? Over ages I started several projects which are in different quality right now and this is maybe not completely related to version they use.
Let's take one of older ones - Wammu. It was started long time ago, it really does not get any major code changes for several years and I still don't want to make 1.0 release there. The reason is that I think that many things could be done better there. However there are quite lot of users which use it and they probably consider it stable enough :-). But they will have to live with 0.x versions as I do not plan 1.0 at all for now even if it maybe deserves it :-).
Different case is Ukolovnik. It does not have tons of features, but it's enough for me and it will be 1.0 soon. I have features to add, but I don't thing that RPC interface has to be in 1.0, it can be just thing added later.
Long time ago I used FnFXto handle events from ACPI keys on my Toshiba notebook. However when reinstalling notebookbecause of disk crash, I thought there must be a cleaner way to handle these and I found patch for acpid which added handling of these special events.
However I really didn't like patching acpid on every update and there didn't seem to be chance to merge it upstream, so I started to look for better solution. After another amount of googling, I found that HAL already has some support for Toshiba hotkeys. Unfortunately it is now disabled in Debianbecause most key did not emit anything using HAL.
Okay, let's fix the HAL, maybe it will get later enabled. Converting FnFX keymap to C code was quite easy and I made a patch for HALto add support for all keys. Hopefully it get merged soon and I can then file bug on Debian package to reenable Toshiba support in HAL.
Meanwhile I'd like to find some generic way of configuring what happens on these events. For now I hacked simple Python scriptwhich listens to DBUS events and invokes appropriate commands for keys, but I hope that some such tool already exists and I just missed it. If you know something, please let me know at michal@cihar.com.
New version of simple todo manager called Ukolovnikhas been just released. Version 0.9 comes with following changes:
I just noticed, that Python Jabber transports have been migrated this weekend to Google Codeand first people started to contribute. I especially like the fact, that first contributors are Czech guys and they're fixing encoding problems :-).
Let's hope that this activity will also help to improve Debian package which is not really in good state, but I promisednot to hijack it till the end of year ;-) (so for now I temporarily hack it in my repository).
PS: I know ICQ is evil, but I don't have enough power to force all my contacts to start using Jabber.
After more than year and half of blogging with Nanoblogger, I'm still more and more thinking about trying something else. With almost 500 entries I currently have, generating blog takes more and more time. Otherwise there is not anything I'd miss, but something with comments might be also better.
I didn't yet find time to investigate currently available blog engines, but from what I remember in past, it was hard to choose something. What is thing which many engines fail to fulfill is ability to use text editor instead of writing text in browser. The other thing I'd like to see is to have more than category (or tag) per post. Maybe ikiwikiwould be good candidate for this...
However what to do with old content? Should it be migrated to new system? I doubt it will be able to keep old URLs what is something I'd like...