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Muffin 2 - The French speaking Fedora user Magazine

Pierre-Yves — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 09:03:00 +0100

The new Muffin (French Fedora user magazine) is out !

Nouvelle version de Muffin

English

Muffin (French speaking User Fedora Magazine) has been released today. I would like to congratulate all the people involved for the very nice peace of work which has been done.

Having followed the development of this magazine I can say it has not always been easy, but it is at the end a very nice magazine!

It is also the realisation of Cédric Guilbaud which step up as a brand new ambassador to take over the leadership of this project. He has made a nice job and I am already looking forward to the number 3 ;-)

Anyway, no more words are needed, just check it out !

French version

Muffin, Magazine des Utilisateurs Francophones de Fedora Inversement Nuffim a sorti sont numéro 2. Ce numéro 2, prend la suite du Magazine des Utilisateurs Francophones de Fedora Imparfait mais Nécessaire (le n°1) qui est sorti il y a quelques temps maintenant.

Pour avoir suivi un peu le dévelopement de cette version je dois dire que si ça n'a pas toujours était facile, il y a eu un très bon travail réalisé par toute l'équipe ! Bravo à vous tous !!

Ce projet est aussi le bébé de Cédric Guilbaud qui a pris en charge ce projet alors qu'il était tout jeune ambassadeur. Félicitation à lui pour tout le travail accompli et vivement le numéro 3 ;-)

Enfin assez avec les mots, voila le magazine !

reviewHelper

Pierre-Yves — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 20:09:00 +0100

Automate some of the step needed for a review

Automatiser quelques unes des étapes pour la revue d'un paquet RPM

English format

One month ago I was presenting a small script to automate to a certain point R review.

Since then, I have quickly been working on re-factoring the code to make it hopefully cleaner and more flexible.

The script works really simply, give it a src.rpm or a url and it will download the src.rpm, download the sources of the package, compare the sha1sum with upstream, install the srpm, build it locally and if the local build worked, start a scratch build on koji and run rpmlint on the generated rpm.

This is made for any package, but according to the name of the package more functionality can be added. I already added the function specific for R reviews, but I would like to know if person from PHP-Pear/Pcl or from Perl would also be interesting to add their own method in this script.

Again the goal is not to replace to reviewer but more to make his task easier also by automating some of the mandatory steps (such as the local build, the sha1sum of the srpm vs the upstream sources or running rpmling). It is not meant to replace a human reviewer but more to assist him.

The script is available at: http://pingou.fedorapeople.org/reviewHelper.py

Let me know if you find it interesting.

R-autoreview

Pierre-Yves — Thu, 13 May 2010 10:06:00 +0100

A script to help to review R packages

Un script pour aider à faire des revues de paquets R

English version

There has been a bunch of new R review submitted to the redhat Bugzilla lately and I have been doing some.

R is easy to package (R2spec being of some help on that) and quite boring to review. The package needs to follow the guidelines but after that besides the license, potential warning at build time and the dependencies there isn't much to check.

So in order to make my life easier I have written a small script that automates a number of steps for me.

There is what it does from a srpm:

check for the latest version
download the src.rpm
install the src.rpm
download sources
sha1sum of the sources
sha1sum of the sources from src.rpm
check that R-core is in the Requires line
check that R-devel is in the BuildRequires line
check that tex(latex) is in the BuildRequires line
check that %dir */R/library/%{packname} is present
check that %doc concerns at least doc, html, DESCRIPTION, NEWS and print the other
check the %install
check that there is coherence between noarch and datadir
check that there is not both datadir and libdir in a spec
build locally the rpm and run rpmlint on them
start a build on koji for the src.rpm

This output looks like this:

$ python Scripts/R-autoreview.py -s R-caTools-1.10-2.fc12.src.rpm * Latest version packaged
Target is already in the folder, no need to re-download it 
e9f393dbfe3928448ccdc40dd011987d73acce9b  caTools_1.10.tar.gz
e9f393dbfe3928448ccdc40dd011987d73acce9b  /home/pierrey/rpmbuild/SOURCES/caTools_1.10.tar.gz
* sha1sum are equals
* All required Requires are present
! R-core is present more than once
* All required BuildRequires are present
* There is 1 %dir
  %dir is OK
* There is 2 %doc
  %doc is OK
* The rpm installed in _libdir
* The rpm seems to have the required element in %install
* The rpm uses %{_libdir} and is arch
rpmbuild -ba /home/pierrey/rpmbuild/SPECS/R-caTools.spec > R-caTools.spec-build.log 2>&1 
* Build properly under 2.6.33.3-85.fc13.x86_64
* rpmlint:
R-caTools.src: W: spelling-error %description -l en_US cumsum -> cum sum, cum-sum, cums um
R-caTools.x86_64: W: spelling-error %description -l en_US cumsum -> cum sum, cum-sum, cums um
3 packages and 0 specfiles checked; 0 errors, 2 warnings. 
Scratch build on koji for target f14
* Koji build: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=2184735
  0 free  0 open  3 done  0 failed
  2184735 build (dist-f14, R-caTools-1.10-2.fc12.src.rpm) completed successfully

   TODO:
* Check the sources for license
* Check the build, log for Warning & co

This script is available at: http://pingou.fedorapeople.org/R-autoreview.py

R2spec/R2rpm 3.0.0

Pierre-Yves — Wed, 05 May 2010 13:34:00 +0100

New release of R2spec

Nouvelle version de R2spec

English version

This time it is there, the new release of R2spec is on its way and I have to say it brings a huge bunch of new features!

R2spec now comes with a new flavour, R2rpm which allows you to generate directly rpm from the R libraries.

Since I already announced it I won't spend to much time on it.

Check the changelog at the bottom for all the info !

I would like to thanks José Matos and Allen S. Rout for their help to build and improve this release.

French version

Et voila, une nouvelle version de R2spec est dans les tuyaux et je dois dire qu'elle amène tout un tas de nouveautés.

R2spec vous apporte maintenant un nouvel outil, R2rpm qui comme son nom l'indique permet de construire directement un rpm pour une bibliothèque R.

Bon comme je l'ai déjà annoncé je ne vais pas trop m'attarder là-dessus.

Regardez donc le changelog ci-dessous pour toutes les infos !

Je voudrais aussi remercier José Matos et Allen S. Rout pour leur aide dans la construction et l'amélioration de cette release.

Version 3.0.0 -- 05th May 2019
- Features added
  * R2spec can now be called from an external script
  * Use template via jinja2 to generate the spec files (Based on an idea of Allen S. Rout)
  * Create the R2rpm script which directly builds the rpm
  * Add a man page for R2rpm
  * Add the -p option which enable to build a spec from a package name
  * Parse the PACKAGES file from the repositories to find the information for the packages
  * Make the print of the TODO optional in the API
  * Give the opportunity to use mock to build the RPMs (rpmbuild being the default)
  * Enable to specify the mock command in the conf file
  * Enable to change the argument given to rpmbuild via the conf file 
      (to build srpm instead of rpm for example)
- Bugs correction
  * Fix the addition of the R- prefix to the dependencies
  * Rewrite the reading of the DESCRIPTION file from R
  * Do not enforce the spec and the source directory, reads the rpmmacros instead
     Thanks to José Matos for this function
  * Fix the summary if it ends with a dot "."
  * Capitalize the summary by default
  * Change UTF-8 to utf-8 to make emacs happy
  * Fix the spec file for the dependencies of this new release
  * Fix some bugs while trying to generate the RPM/SPEC from a tarball

Trackpoint and mouse wheel on Fedora 13

Pierre-Yves — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 20:07:00 +0100

How to configure your trackpoint to emulate mouse wheel on Fedora 13

Comment configurer le troisième bouton de votre trackpoint pour émuler la roulette de la souris sous Fedora 13

English version

Some time ago I posted how to configure the trackpoint to emulate the mouse wheel on Fedora 11.

However, with the new release of Fedora, this configuration does not work anymore, as explained in the documentation.

So there is the new protocol to emulate the mouse wheel with the trackpoint:

Create a file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/mouse.conf
Put this into it:

Section "InputClass"
  Identifier     "Wheel Emulation"
  MatchIsPointer "on"
  MatchProduct   "TrackPoint"
  Option         "EmulateWheelButton" "2"
  Option "EmulateWheel" "on"
EndSection

Restart X

And there you go ! The middle click + the trackpoint emulate a mouse wheel.

French version

Il y a quelques temps j'avais posté comment émuler la roulette de la souris sur un trackpoint via hal.

Cependant avec le dernier hopus de Fedora, cette configuration ne fonctionne plus, comme décrit dans la documentation.

Donc maintenant pour émuler la roulette de la souris sur un trackpoint il faut faire:

Créer le fichier /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/mouse.conf
Y mettre:

Section "InputClass"
  Identifier     "Wheel Emulation"
  MatchIsPointer "on"
  MatchProduct   "TrackPoint"
  Option         "EmulateWheelButton" "2"
  Option "EmulateWheel" "on"
EndSection

Redémarrer X

Et voila ! Le bouton du milieu + le trackpoint vous permettent d'émuler la roulette de la souris.

RPM repository for R packages

Pierre-Yves — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 23:25:00 +0100

A RPM repository for R packages is being built

Un dépôts de RPM pour les bibliothèques R est en cours de création

English version

At the moment I wrote this lines there is a group of people who have joined their effort to create a RPM repository for R packages in a similar way than Dirk's work for APT.

On the technical point, the RPMs will be built using R2rpm which have some consequences regarding the RPM generation (there is no -devel sub-packages and rpmlint is not silent for example).

We are busy at the moment trying to get and set up the architecture since we would like to support 4 versions:

- CentOS/RHEL 5 i386 and x86_64
- The latest version of Fedora i686 and x86_64

For that we will need some "builders" most likely some VM.

In order to discuss the creation of this project we have set up a mailing list available at: http://www.bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/r-repo-dev

Feel free to join the list to get some more information about its development and to help us making the project reality.

French version

Il y a à l'heure actuelle un petit groupe de personnes qui s'est constitué avec pour objectif de construire un dépôt RPM pour les bibliothèques R. Ce projet est très proche du projet de Dirk pour APT.

D'un point de vue technique, les RPMs seront construits avec R2rpm ce qui a quelque conséquences sur les RPMs généré (pas de sous paquet -devel et rpmlint n'est pas silencieux par exemple).

À l'heure actuelle nous sommes en train d'essayer de réunir l'infrastructure. Nous souhaitons supportés 4 versions:

- CentOS/RHEL 5 i386 and x86_64
- La dernière version de Fedora i686 and x86_64

Il nous faut donc pour ça quelques "builder" vraisemblablement des machines virtuelles.

Pour discuter de ce projet nous venons de mettre en place une liste de diffusion, disponible à : http://www.bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/r-repo-dev

N'hésitez pas à nous rejoindre pour suivre le projet ou pour nous aider à en faire une réalité.

R2rpm on cran

Pierre-Yves — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 09:58:00 +0000

Building cran RPM via R2rpm

Construire des RPMs du cran avec R2rpm

English format

Using the PACKAGES file from the CRAN I was able to generate a list of 670 packages that do not depend on anything else than R.

This morning I ran R2rpm on the first 100, it took around 3h and there are the results:

89 packages built
['ADGofTest', 'AMORE', 'AlgDesign', 'Animal', 'BGSIMD', 'BMN', 'BPHO', 'BayesValidate', 'Bhat', 'BiasedUrn', 'Biodem', 'Bolstad', 'Bolstad2', 'BootCL', 'CAVIAR', 'CCP', 'CDFt', 'CHsharp', 'CORElearn', 'CTT', 'ClinicalRobustPriors', 
'ComPairWise', 'CompetingRiskFrailty', 'ConvCalendar', 'CreditMetrics', 'CvM2SL1Test', 'CvM2SL2Test', 'DEA', 'DEMEtics', 'DEoptim', 'DTDA', 'DTK', 'Davies', 'Defaults', 'DiversitySampler', 'EMJumpDiffusion', 'EbayesThresh', 
'ElectroGraph', 'ExPD2D', 'FBN', 'FITSio', 'FKBL', 'FNN', 'Flury', 'GPArotation', 'GWRM', 'GeneF', 'GillespieSSA', 'HAPim', 'HI', 'HMM', 'HMR', 'ISOcodes', 'Imap', 'Iso', 'JADE', 'JudgeIt', 'Kendall', 'LDtests', 'LIStest', 'LearnBayes', 
'LearnEDA', 'LogitNet', 'LowRankQP', 'MAMSE', 'MCE', 'MKLE', 'MLDA', 'MLEcens', 'MMG', 'MMIX', 'MPV', 'MSVAR', 'MTSKNN', 'ModelGood', 'Multiclasstesting', 'NMFN', 'NORMT3', 'OPE', 'ORIClust', 'ORMDR', 'Oarray', 'OrdMonReg', 
'PBSddesolve', 'PLIS', 'POT', 'PSAgraphics', 'Peaks', 'PearsonICA']

11 packages failed
['BioStatR', 'BoSSA', 'BradleyTerry', 'BradleyTerry2', 'CPE', 'Cairo', 'FracSim', 'GDD', 'KFAS', 'MImix', 'OAIHarvester']

Damn this is good ! :-)

R2spec / R2rpm

Pierre-Yves — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 21:26:00 +0000

New version of R2spec in the pipes

Une nouvelle version de R2spec dans les tuyaux

English version

There is a new version of R2spec in the pipes, this version fixes some bugs and introduces some new features. The main of these features is the presence of R2rpm now.

R2rpm generate the complete rpm directly from a url, the sources or simply the name of the package. It builds the package twice, once to determine the %file section and once to generate the RPM.

I fixed the length of the %description so that it is not bigger than the mandatory 75 characters, the summary is also corrected if it ends with a dot.

Tonight I have been playing with this new version, I was able to generate in the fly a bit more than 70 RPMs for R libraries in just few minutes (ok maybe it tooks a couple of hours :-)).

All the RPMs work, there are not rpmlint compliant so there would need more work if we want to integrate them into the repository but it is a good basis.

Something that I still want to do before to release officially the version 3.0.0 is the possibility to build the dependencies of a given package. Basically, this would allow to build RPM for one package and all the packages of which it depends.

For those who would like to test you can find the source, srpm and rpm in https://fedorahosted.org/releases/r/2/r2spec/ (latest release so far 3.0.0-0.4).

Do not hesitate to test it and report any issue you find in it :-)

Hope you like it !

Fosdem 2010 Day 2 (End)

Pierre-Yves — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:47:00 +0000

Back on FOSDEM 2010

La fin du FOSDEM 2010

English version

There we are, on the way back home.
These 2 days have been really nice, this event is attracting every year more and more people and covers more and more topics.

Today I have been able to attend 2 very interesting conferences. One from Richard Hughes on PackageKit one year after. It is a very good tool and the future of it, looks really nice. After that I stayed for the talk on 'Semantic Desktop' this being a technology that I have professionally interest in. The conferences covered a quick introduction to the basis of the semantic technology and format with a quick presentation of the RDF format, the second part was more applied to the implication of the semantic technology in the development of the 'Desktop Environment'. Unfortunately time was running I could not stay to this part.
I have to say that I would love to see more conference about this, but FOSDEM is probably not the best place for that. I should look for more semantic oriented conference.

Thanks to Max I am also carrying with me about 600 laptop stickers that the French NPO will be able to redistribute, thanks a lot Max !

Finally I would like to thanks all the people that made this FOSDEM such a good one, starting of course by the FOSDEM people and Frederic who organised the Fedora and JBoss participation this year again. Thanks to all the folks from Grece, Turkey, USA, The Netherlands (yes there were some, although not all were real Dutch), the German community present as ever, the French and Belgium guys who showed up but also our ambassadors from Switzerland, Hungary, Roumania, Italy (I am probably missing some, sorry about that).

I was nice to see all and I am already looking forward to see you next year.

PS: Nicu if you read this, since I could not pay you a beer today, let me know how to be sure you get one. I want the Fedora Comic back !! ;-)

Fosdem 2010 Day 1

Pierre-Yves — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 09:57:00 +0000

Just arrived at FOSDEM

FOSDEM 2010, les premières impressions (anglais uniquement)

English version

I have just arrived at the forum and it feels already nice. Nice blue sky, good people around and while the FOSDEM is opened for one hour that there are already quite some people.

The Fedora Booth is located to a new place but quite close to were it was last year. We are still on one of the biggest part of the even, quite right in the middle. We have space around and for neighbour CentOS and Amarok, but few stands away, the GN OMe booth also has a Fedora for demonstration.

Now time to look at the planning of the conference to see which one I want to attend. I already checked mine, 17h30 in the Di stribution room.

Here we go !

Fosdem 2010 Day 0

Pierre-Yves — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:43:00 +0000

On the road to FOSDEM 2010

Sur la route du FOSDEM 2010

English version

FOSDEM, for the third year in a row I am going to FOSDEM. I am looking forward to it, this year again it will be great I am sure ! I'd like to thanks Federic for all the work it did on organising this amazing event.

I have not looked deeply into the program yet all I know is that I will be giving the talk about the french speaking community and its NPO on saturday afternoon. I will also likely be hanging here and there, looking for people and likely give a hand to the booth. I already know that I need to find the debian maintainer of Guake ;-)

But first things first, first let's arrive to Brussels (I'm still in the train to) then find the hostel and this afternoon I'll be joinning the Fedora FAD.

To all of you who are going to the FOSDEM, see you later !

It's gonna be great ! I'm looking forward :)

French version

Cette année et pour la 3ème année consécutive je suis en route pour le FOSDEM. Cette année encore le FOSDEM s'annonce superbe. Frederic a fais un superbe boulot pour tout organisé, merci à lui !

Je n'ai pas encore étudier le programme des conférences mais je sais que je donnerai la présentation sur la communauté française de Fedora samedi après-midi. Le reste du temps je pense me promener, profiter des conférences et être un peu au stand sans doute. Je sais déjà que je dois trouver le mainteneur debian de Guake ;-)

Mais une chose après l'autre, d'abord arriver à Bruxelles, puis l'hotel et cette après-midi le FAD.

Je sent que ça va être génial ! J'ai hâte :)

Guake 0.4.1 - 2

Pierre-Yves — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:54:00 +0000

English version

Quickly, I have rebuilt Guake 0.4.1 to include the french translation.

The builds can be found:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/guake-0.4.1-2.fc12
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/guake-0.4.1-2.fc11

French version

J'ai inclus la traduction français de Guake dans une mise à jour du RPM.

La mise à jour est en attente de testing :
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/guake-0.4.1-2.fc12
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/guake-0.4.1-2.fc11

Guake 0.4.1

Pierre-Yves — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:07:00 +0000

Guake 0.4.1 is released !

La version 0.4.1 de Guake est sortie !

English version

Guake 0.4.1 has been released, has been built and is pending for the testing repository. For reference, Guake is a top-down terminal in the same style than Tilda, Yakuake or the consol in the game quake. It is made for Gnome

Among the new feature we have quite a number of new locales available, the switch to Transifex really helped us on that ! A certain amount of bugs are also fixed in this release.

The new release is called: "I was just joking" (you'll have to go through the archive of the mailing-list to get that one ;-)).

I hope you will enjoy this new version

If you test it, don't forget to comment on bodhi ;-)

French version

Guake 0.4.1 est sorti, compilé et en attente pour le dépôt updates-testing. Pour rappel Guake est un terminal de type top-down qui s'affiche en haut de l'écran à la façon de Tilda, de Yakuake ou de la console de quake (le jeu ;-)), il est prévu pour Gnome.

Parmi les nouveautés on notera un plus grand nombre de traductions disponibles, le passage à Transifex nous ayant bien aidé pour ça. Un certain nombre de bogues sont aussi corrigés dans cette version

Cette nouvelle version est appelée "I was just joking" (il vous faudra aller dans les archives de la liste de diffusion pour la comprendre celle-la ;-) ).

J'espère que vous aimerez cette nouvelle version.

Pour les testeurs n'oubliez pas de mettre un mot sur bodhi ;-)

changes since 0.4.0:

Updated translation and new translation:

 * Italian
 * French
 * Portuguese/Brazilian
 * Novergian
 * German
 * Polish
 * Greek
 * Hungarian

Bugs/Features:

 * Change start message #168
 * Add an option to the preference windows to create new tab in cwd #146
 * Preferences windows are resizable #149
 * Guake's windows not shown when ran for the first time #174
 * Implement dbus interface to script with guake #150, #138, #105, #126, #128, #109
 * Command line arguments implemented
   -n create a new tab
   -e execute a command on a defined tab
   -r rename a tab
   -t toggle visibility
 * Improve regex to use character classes (improve the support of certain locales) #156
 * Ask user if he really wants to quit when there is a child process #158
 * Double click on a tab allows you to rename the tab #165
 * Add more information on the INSTALL file 
 * Tray icon position fixed #161

Infrastructure:

 * Move from guake-terminal.org to guake.org
 * Set up a mailing-list at: http://lists.guake.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/guake

Guake and mailing list !

Pierre-Yves — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:53:00 +0000

Guake has now a mailing list !

Guake a maintenant une liste de diffusion

English version

Guake is a top-down terminal for Gnome in the same style than Yakuake or the terminal in quake.

I have been following this project for a while and I am now very pleased to announce you we have now a mailing-list for guake.

If you like the project, want to keep in touch, discuss on the priorities, the new features basically keep in touch with the project and its decisions feel free to sign in http://lists.guake.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/guake

If you are a beginner, want to report a bug and don't really know how to ask your question or how to formulate your words before opening a ticket on the trac, feel free to sign in the mailing-list!!

Another nice step forward for Guake

French version

Guake est un terminal qui se cache en haut de votre écran et apparaît quand vous appuyez sur une touche, dans le même style que Yakuake ou la console dans quake.

Cela fait quelques temps que je suis ce projet et je suis aujourd'hui très content de vous annoncer que le projet a maintenant sa liste de diffusion.

Si vous aimez le projet et souhaiter suivre les décisions qui sont prises, si vous souhaitez participer au projet, voir les nouveautés, les priorités alors n'hésitez pas à vous inscrire sur http://lists.guake.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/guake.

Si vous êtes débutant et avez besoin d'un peu d'aide n'hésitez pas à poser vos questions sur la list de diffusion.

Un beau pas en avant pour Guake

Une rencontre amusante

Pierre-Yves — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:07:00 +0000

Always nice to meet people you know from Fedora

Une rencontre sympatique

French version

Ce soir en rentrant chez moi, j'ai eu le plaisir de reconnaître dans le métro un voisin de quartier que je sais être contributeur du projet.

C'est rigolo de voir monter dans une rame de métro une tête connue, se demander si c'est la bonne personne puis à la vue des badges linux et mandriva accrochés à la sacoche, confirmer son impression.

Vînt alors le temps, d'essayer de se faire reconnaître sans mettre toute la rame de métro au courant, tout un challenge ! Carlos, merci pour tes cartes ambassadeurs faites à l'occasion des RF10 ;-).

Ce fut donc un plaisir pour moi de retrouver ce contributeur tant de fois croisé sur la toile et une seule fois auparavant rencontré.

English version

It is always nice to meet on the street people you know from Fedora. I have had this occasion today by meeting in the subway a fellow contributor.

Fedora 12 ?? Paris ?? 12/12 ??

Pierre-Yves — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:20:00 +0100

French version

J'y serai, et vous ?

English version

I will be there, and you ?

Working with upstream

Pierre-Yves — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:42:00 +0100

Guake is now on Transifex

Guake est maintenant dans Transifex

English version

On Fedora working with upstream has always been a goal. I became packager for Fedora few years ago since then I try to follow this policy.

In one of the package I maintain it has become a bit more than with the other.

Guake is a top-down terminal (like Yakuake for kde or the terminal in Quake). I am using it on a daily basis (so nice to have your weechat over there) and about one and half year ago I submitted my first patch to the project.

Since then I never stopped to bother Lincoln about Guake :-)

Recently (and with the approach of a new release) I spoke to Lincoln about Transifex, I have to recognize that until now the translation were not that well handled by us (people had to open a ticket on the trac). Now with this tool we can see and follow much more easily the state of the translation.

And it works ! We have Guake in transifex for some days and we just finished to set up the commit on the po file on the git that we already have our first contribution, the update of the polish translation (thanks Piotr ) !

So if you are using Guake, likes it, feel free to check the project page on transifex and to add or update new translation (you might like to know that we should be in string freeze tomorrow for the release 0.4.1 ;-) ).

Thanks Transifex !

French version

Une des politiques claires de Fedora est de travailler avec upstream. Je suis packageur pour Fedora depuis quelques années déjà et je tâche de suivre cette politique.

Il y a cependant un projet qui s'est démarqué des autres quant à mon implication.

Guake est un terminal qui se cache et apparaît depuis le haut de l'écran un peu comme Yakuake pour KDE ou la fenêtre de terminal dans Quake. Je l'utilise tous les jours (mon weechat est là haut) et il y a environ un an et demi j'ai soumis à ce projet un premier patch.

Depuis je n'ai jamais arrêté d'embêter Lincoln à propos de Guake :-)

Dernièrement (et avec l'approche d'une nouvelle version), j'ai parlé de Transifex avec Lincoln. Jusqu'à présent il faut dire que nos traductions n'étaient pas des mieux gérées (il fallait ouvrir un ticket sur le trac). Mais maintenant avec transifex on peut voir et suivre beaucoup plus facilement l'état de la traduction.

Et ça marche !! Guake est maintenant dans transifex depuis quelques jours mais nous venons seulement de finir la configuration pour commiter directement les fichiers po dans le repo git. Et nous avons déjà notre première contribution ! La traduction polonaise de Guake est maintenant à jour (Merci Piotr) !

Donc si vous utilisez Guake, que vous l'aimez n'hésitez pas à regarder la page du project sur transifex et d'ajouter ou de mettre à jour les traductions (d'ailleurs pour info nous serons en string freeze à partir de demain pour la version 0.4.1 ;-) ).

Merci Transifex !

procmail et Fedora

Pierre-Yves — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:17:00 +0100

Filter for the Fedora/Redhat mailing list

Les filtres pour les listes de diffusions Fedora/RedHat

English version

Lately I have been trying to get around procmail to filter emails retrieved by fetchmail. I could not find on the internet example of procmail filter for the Fedora and RedHat mailing list.

The idea is to get a different maildir for each mailing list which I finally made up using this:

:0H:
* ^TO_.*<\/.*redhat\.com>
* MATCH ?? ()\/^@<+
$MAILDIR/$MATCH/ 

:0H:
* ^TO_.*<\/.*fedoraproject\.org>
* MATCH ?? ()\/^@<+
$MAILDIR/$MATCH/

I know, I could also have done 1 filter/mailing list but then again I'm lazy ;-)

French version

Dernièrement j'ai fais joujou avec procmail pour filtrer les emails venant de Fedora et RedHat récupéré par fetchmail. Je n'ai pas trouvé sur internet d'example de filtres procmail pour les listes de diffusion de Fedora et RedHat.

L'idée est d'avoir un dossier/fichier par liste de diffusion, ce qui est possible en passant par:

:0H:
* ^TO_.*<\/.*redhat\.com>
* MATCH ?? ()\/^@<+
$MAILDIR/$MATCH/ 

:0H:
* ^TO_.*<\/.*fedoraproject\.org>
* MATCH ?? ()\/^@<+
$MAILDIR/$MATCH/

Oui je sais, on peut aussi faire un filtre par liste, mais bon je suis fainéant ;-)

Welcome home guake !

Pierre-Yves — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:11:00 +0200

The guake project has moved

Le projet guake a déménagé

English version (French below)

Guake, if you do not know it, is a small top-down terminal for Gnome (in the style of Yakuake for KDE, Tilda or the terminal used in Quake). The project was hosted until now at http://guake-terminal which became http://trac.guake-terminal when the trac instance became the main website.

In fact the main issue was that one of the developer for some reasons has stopped to get involved in the project and of course has shit never occur alone, he was the one owning the domain name. After poking him a bit the change from guake-terminal to trac.guake-terminal could be done though.

However, has all good project, having mailing list is nice, at least to keep in touch with the person involved (such as translators &all). But when you don't have access to the DNS the configuration becomes a problem.

Therefore, Lincoln (the main developer) bought yesterday the domain name http://guake.org where the project is now hosted. So, if you know a bit the project, want to get involved, pay attention in the coming days we will have our mailing list set up !

Welcome home guake ;-)

French version

Si vous le ne connaissez pas Guake est un terminal pour GNOME qui apparaît en haut de l'écran à la manière de Yakuake pour KDE ou du terminal dans Quake.

Jusqu'à présent le projet étais hébergé sous le nom de domaine http://guake-terminal.org qui est devenu http://trac.guake-terminal lorsque l'instance trac en place est devenu le site principal.

En fait le problème qui c'est posé, est qu'un des développeurs du projet c'est retiré et est partis avec le nom de domaine et donc les DNS.

Et comme pour tout projet, il est intéressant voir utile d'avoir des listes de diffusion pour rester en contact avec les personnes intéressées par le projet et prête à contribuer. Hors configurer des listes de diffusion sans avoir accès au DNS est un exercise plutôt difficile.

C'est pourquoi hier, Lincoln (dévelopeur principal du projet) a acheté le nom de domaine http://guake.org où le projet est maintenant hébergé. Donc si vous êtes intéressé par le projet voire même souhaiter en prendre part, sous quelques jours nous aurons nos listes de diffusion !

Bienvenue à la maison guake ;-)

Trackpoint et molette de souris

Pierre-Yves — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:17:00 +0200

Configurer un trackpoint pour remplacer la molette de la souris

Configure a trackpoint to emulate a mouse wheel

Version Française

Ce post est autant pour moi un aide mémoire que pour partager cette astuce que SmootherFr0gZ m'a donné.

Sur mon thinkpad j'ai un trackpoint et donc pas de barre de défilement verticale ou horizontale, heureusement hal est là !!

Par hal on peut simuler la molette de la souris et un appuis continus sur le 3ème bouton de la souris (soit bouton du milieu) avec un mouvement de la souris entraine un défilement de la page verticale ou horizontale.

Méthode:

Créer le fichier /etc/hal/fdi/policy/11-mousewheel.fdi
Dedans mettre:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
 <device>
  <match key="info.product" string="TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint">
   <merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateWheel" type="string">true</merge>
   <merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateWheelButton" type="string">2</merge>
   <merge key="input.x11_options.YAxisMapping" type="string">4 5</merge>
   <merge key="input.x11_options.XAxisMapping" type="string">6 7</merge>
   <merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateWheelTimeout" type="string">200</merge>
  </match>
 </device>
</deviceinfo>

Faire

service haldaemon restart

Redémarrer X

Reste plus qu'à appuyer sur le bouton du milieu et à faire bouger la souris en même temps pour faire défiler :-)

English version

This post is as much a reminder for myself as a wish to share what SmootherFr0gZ told me.

On my thinkpad there are no way to scroll up and down or on the side because I have a trackpoint and not a touchpad. But hal is there !!

Through hal you can emulate the third button to make it act as a mouse wheel.

The principle is easy:

Create the file /etc/hal/fdi/policy/11-mousewheel.fdi
Put this for content

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
 <device>
  <match key="info.product" string="TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint">
   <merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateWheel" type="string">true</merge>
   <merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateWheelButton" type="string">2</merge>
   <merge key="input.x11_options.YAxisMapping" type="string">4 5</merge>
   <merge key="input.x11_options.XAxisMapping" type="string">6 7</merge>
   <merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateWheelTimeout" type="string">200</merge>
  </match>
 </device>
</deviceinfo>

Restart hal

service haldaemon restart

Restart X

Now I can just press the middle button and move my mouse to scroll up and down or on the side :-)

I find this really handy !