Making reviewing easier
Having to read all the ReviewGuidelines just to review a package is not nice. Especially that you need to make a report of it after you are done. So, me, being lazy again, wrote a few lines which generates a report ready to be checked and copy/pasted to the review request (assume that what I just said is grammatically correct). The script is really simple, it just fetches http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/ReviewGuidelines and uses regex to parse out MUST and SHOULD items, so in case of any change to this page, you’ll be updated.
To use it, just do:
$ ./package_review.pl > ~/my_review.txt
you can find the script here.
New Emacs
Quick notice: After looking around a little bit and not finding Emacs 23 packages for Fedora, I went ahead and rebuilt the one which is in rawhide. You can find it in http://amoradi.fedorapeople.org/rpms/ and install all emacs* rpms and you should have Emacs with neat fonts! Have fun coding!
Way to go!
I’m back, alive and happy! Just finished the last exam of high school and now I will have more free time. So Fedora 11 was released on Tuesday, and my first impression is: The ultimate awesomeness of the universe!
A lot of cool new features which just blew my mind away, but a few things I noticed right away were:
- fast fast fast. Blazing fast. Ext4 is doing a great job! You run it, it pops!
- kde 4.3B1 for kde-redhat-unstable users (special thanks goes to the KDE-SIG)
- cool plymouth theme (anyone know how to get it to work on nvidia cards without having to type vga=318 every time? adding it to /etc/grub.conf doesn’t seem to work)
- faster startup
These are only things I have personally noticed in the past 2 or 3 days with it, if you want a list of features, go to the fedora features list
All in all, I’m done with exams and I’m looking for some things to do! And my question is, dear lazy web, is there a list of wanted packages which I can look at and make some of them not-so-wanted?
