Waartaa applies 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. ...

2014-03-07 · 2 min · Sayan Chowdhury

Darkserver Improvement: Pen Down

Lot of things to do! Lot of things to do! Lot of things to do! This was continuously revovlving around my head for last 2 weeks. I had to deploy the work i had done on staging instance and test it. But wait! I had never written a setup.py before, never made a RPM package before. While in college, I had a fascination toward RPM packaging as most of my college seniors had created a RPM package sometime or other. During Mukti 2011, I had attended a RPM packaging workshop by Rahul Sundaram(mether), so i had the idea of how to package a RPM. ...

2013-09-25 · 2 min · Sayan Chowdhury

Darkserver Improvement: Web Dashboard

There has been a lot of changes since I last posted my blog. Darkserver’s command line dashboard now supports the secondary architecture. You can easily shutdown the darkproducer of specifying which architecture to shutdown. .. code:: dark> shutdown darkproducer arch The support for multiple buildqueues was removed. After a rigorous testing on my laptop, i pushed the code to the dev instance that was assigned to me. But, a mysterious error happened, nor the pid or the daemon of darkproducer was getting created. Due to which the complete project came to a halt. Later, it was figured out that i was passing the config(—config) argument as a relative path of the conf file, rather than the absolute path which created all this trouble. So, the proper way to start the darkproducer is: ...

2013-09-09 · 1 min · Sayan Chowdhury

Darkserver Improvement

I am currently doing some manual testing of my code, and it proved to be vital. It helped me figure out a lot of bugs. One of seemed weird to me in the beginning: The get here returned an error. .. code:: Method Not Allowed This is an XML-RPC server. Only POST requests are accepted. The project required a heavy amount of download, so my mentor gave me a dev instance to test out my code, all seemed to be fine, with the code properly working on local machine. But on the dev instance a major bug surfaced, all the architecture with referring to the same key. So, currently i started working on implementing different darkproducer-ids for different darkproducers.Also, I need to get started with a long-term bug, my mentor pointed me in the shutdown functionality of darkserver. ...

2013-07-26 · 1 min · Sayan Chowdhury

Darkserver Improvement: Week Two and Week Three

It’s been two weeks since i last posted my report on Darkserver. I could not post week two update as I had been down with bad health(seasonal changes + Loo). With the week coming to an end and /me recovering from fever, i badly hurt my right wrist and that was end of it. I somehow manage to move myself to a new city, Bengaluru. The week passed as a trauma for me :’( ...

2013-07-10 · 2 min · Sayan Chowdhury