Introducing Bugyou

We developed Autocloud as a part of Fedora 23 release cycle as a part of Two week atomic image. Autocloud publishes the messages to fedmsg when the image is queued, running, success and failed. What is Bugyou? Bugyou files issues for failed tests from Autocloud. Bugyou is part of Fedora Project. It listens to Autocloud messages from fedmsg and files bug for images which have failed the tests. Bugyou keeps updating the status of the images in the bug and closes the issue once the tests are successful. ...

7 January 2016 · 1 min · Sayan Chowdhury

Four Weeks in Fedora

26th of October 2015, I joined Red Hat as a part of the Fedora Engineering Team. I have been contributing to the Fedora for couple of years now starting from the contributing to askbot-devel while we were gearing up for the Ask Fedora release. This year in July, I along with kushal, rtnpro, praveenkumar started working on Autocloud, as a part of the Two-Week Atomic during the Fedora 23 cycle. So, I last couple of years of I have met and worked with a lot of people in the Fedora community. Joining Fedora was like working with friends. ...

24 November 2015 · 3 min · Sayan Chowdhury

Leaving HackerEarth

It’s very hard to write but I am leaving HackerEarth. 2013 and internship My college days were coming to an end with placements all around. I was sure to join in a startup. One fine day, I saw a job posting on hasjob on 12th December 2012 that boldly said “HackerEarth is buidling its initial team - Python/Django enthusiast needed”. The idea made me apply to HackerEarth and after a few rounds of email with Sachin and Vivek. I landed up in a remote intern position. ...

12 October 2015 · 2 min · Sayan Chowdhury

Move a running process into tmux with reptyr

Being a regular tmux user. Migrating a running process into tmux using reptyr comes handy. reptyr is a utility for taking an existing running program and attaching it to a new terminal. Started a long-running process over ssh, but have to leave and don’t want to interrupt it? Just start a screen, use reptyr to grab it, and then kill the ssh session and head on home. The package available in Fedora/Ubuntu repositories. ...

27 December 2014 · 1 min · Sayan Chowdhury

Waartaa applies for GSoC 2014

We are elated to inform you that Waartaa has been accepted as a project idea for GSoC under Fedora’s umbrella. For those who are new to Waartaa, Waartaa is an open-source communication tool for teams and groups. It is built on top of IRC. Currently, Waartaa is an IRC client as a service and it supports centralized logging, 24x7 idling, notifications and unique identity to a user on IRC. The source code is available at https://github.com/waartaa/waartaa for you to download and hack on it. ...

7 March 2014 · 2 min · Sayan Chowdhury