I was back to FOSSASIA this year after a gap of an year and nothing had changed other than the venue. The event had the same level of enthusiasm as before, though the crowd seemed to be less compared to the previous years. This FOSSASIA was more special for the participants, organizers and the volunteers because this was the 10th year of the event. Kudos, to the organizing team for doing it successfully for last 10 years!...

Let’s say you’ve raised a Pull Request on GitHub with 3 commits as shown below. d46d2f8a (HEAD -> feature, devel/feature) Add Fedora system to handle the Fedora Cloud images f726b033 vendor: Add new dep github.com/ulikunitz/xz dbdbda67 Split release and pre-release to handle multiple systems Here, d46d2f8a is the HEAD, followed by f726b033 and dbdbda67. Your reviewers go through the commits, and suggest changes to some files. The suggestions now need to be applied to the commit dbdbda67....

Almost all my life since I have started working around open source projects I have been a Vim user. That does not mean that I did not look into other options. I’ve tried my hands on Emacs, Sublime Text, Visual Studio Code, Atom, et cetera. But, none of them pleased me like vim. 2018, I started working on Golang, and vim had to adapt to my needs, but it did not quite succeed and I made my switch to neovim around the end of the year....

AWS recently announced their new fleet of A1 EC2 instances which is powered by ARM at AWS re:Invent. Gladly, the Fedora Kernel Team (Laura Abbott, Justin Forbes and Jeremy Cline) and Peter Robinson had already everything in place. The only missing piece was to add the support to fedimg to create arm64 based AMIs. With the release of fedimg==2.4.0 (thanks to Patrick), the new AMIs were happily getting uploaded to AWS and with a slight delay, Fedora had the support for the arm64 along with the x86_64 AMIs....

23rd November 2018 The Fedora community of Bangalore assembled at the Red Hat Bangalore office. The event was scheduled to start at 1300, but the lunch at the office postponed the event by 45 mins. Sumantro kicked off the event with a small introduction, following which Vipul gave an introduction of open source with a short choco-chip story. Sumantro back on stage after that talking about the “What’s coming next?”, from discussing about GNOME/Pantheon, to Python 2 deprecation, to Ansible, to IoT, to Modularity....