• Updates to tickle-me-email, my Getting Things Done-inspired email toolbox:
  • Added the ability to inject arbitrary headers into draft messages. (#5)
  • Merged a documentation fix from Will Thompson. (#5)
• Improved my Chrome extension for the FastMail web interface:
  • Support appending arbitrary text in the Compose textarea to the subject via a context menu. (#4)
  • Avoid brittle parsing of the page and use the Javascript API instead. (diff)
• Updated my Strava Enhancement Suite, a Chrome extension that improves and fixes annoyances in the web interface of the Strava cycling and running tracker:
  • Merge support from Jeff Schuler to support "Flyby" activity defaults. (#50)
  • Correctly fallback to the default value after introducing a new value. (diff)
• Made a quick and dirty Kindle version of Derek Siver's book reviews. (repo)
• Improved my stravabot IRC bot to be more resilient on service failure. (diff)

• I make no claims to the stability or completeness.
• I have no documentation or assurances.
• I will not provide the client secret and ID. You'll have to find them on your own.
• This may stop working without any notice, and there may even be really nasty bugs that result in your alarm going off at 4 AM.
• Send PRs! This is a side-project for me.

$ python -m sense
Sense OAuth Client ID: xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx
Sense OAuth Client Secret: xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx
Sense email: paultag@gmail.com
Sense password: 
Attempting to log into Sense's API
Success!
Attempting to query the Sense API
The humidity is **just right**.
The air quality is **just right**.
The light level is **just right**.
It's **pretty hot** in here.
The noise level is **just right**.
Success!

>>> from sense import Sense
>>> sense = Sense()
>>> sense.devices()
 'senses': [ 'id': 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx', 'firmware_version': '11a1', 'last_updated': 1466991060000, 'state': 'NORMAL', 'wifi_info':  'rssi': 0, 'ssid': 'Pretty Fly for a WiFi (2.4 GhZ)', 'condition': 'GOOD', 'last_updated': 1462927722000 , 'color': 'BLACK' ], 'pills': [ 'id': 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx', 'firmware_version': '2', 'last_updated': 1466990339000, 'battery_level': 87, 'color': 'BLUE', 'state': 'NORMAL' ] 

>>> values = [x.get("value") for x in sense.room_sensors()["humidity"]][:10]
>>> min(values)
45.73904
>>> max(values)
45.985928
>>> 

Hi readers,

Here comes my journey till the mid-term (June 21st) as a blog to share my experience.

I have previously worked on some social related projects such as smart guidance for blind and sensor based wireless controller . I have been selected as a speaker for FOSSASIA-16 (Asia s premier technological event)to talk on the project smart guidance for blind .FOSSASIA speakers. It was a great experience participating in the technological event in Singapore science centre.Got an opportunity to meet open source contributors from all over the world(even though it is an Asian event, participation was all over from the world). There were pre-meetups for FOSSASIA on the day before three-day event.I have attended the one organised by RedHat, Singapore.Discussed on many topics related to open source.

Three days of FOSSASIA event was a great experience.It was the second time as a speaker in an international conference.My talk was on the second day.Sharing is the best way to increase your knowledge. Talks and workshops were brainstorming.Learnt many new things and got the courage to contribute to the open source.Met Daniel Pocock in Debian exhibition table.Meeting awesome people can be the turning point of life.Had a discussion about the Debian projects and it motivated me for open source software.We have discussed about the Real Time Communication and was encouraged to apply for GSoC (Google Summer of Code). As per our discussion, prepared the project proposal on improving voice,video and chat communication with free software and submitted it for GSoC. I have been selected to contribute for Debian with stipend from Google.

This was my first application for GSoC and I have been selected to contribute for open source and free software. I would like to thank Google and Debian for giving this amazing experience.

Learning and coding have begun.Updated my laptop with Jessie, latest version of Debian.Get acquainted with the new platform.Got to learn many things about Real Time Communication.Learnt more about SIP, XMPP, peer-to-peer technology to work on my project.It s always better to be clear with theory before coding.When it comes to voice and video over IP, most people nowadays are quick to use Skype, Whatsapp, or Viber. My main goals of the project are helping people to avoid using proprietary communications tools like Skype, Viber and WhatsApp and simplifying the setup of free alternatives like Jitsi, Linphone, Ekiga, Tox (qtox), Mumble.Downloaded some of the already available open source VoIP to find the problems behind it and improve it further.Bootstrapping any business relevant network based on these free alternatives is still hard.

Would you like to list the senders, receivers and date of the messages in the inbox of your mail.Python has a library file IMAP which can be used to connect to an email account, examine every message in every folder and look at the To , From and CC headers of every email message in the folder.

Do you have phone numbers and other contact details in old emails? Would you like a quick way to data-mine your inbox to find them and help migrate them to your address book? Got the help from phonenumbers library for parsing, formatting, and validating international phone numbers.I would like to share how I imported this library file into my coding.Download the given library file and open the file in the terminal.Type

$ python setup.py install

to install the library file.Now you can call the functions by importing phonenumbers.

You can go through the code in my GitHub profile here.(Recently started committing my projects in GitHub)

Iain R. Learmonth joined my journey as a mentor.Helped in solving some issues in my coding through GitHub.

It was a wonderful journey till now.Will be working further to improve voice, video and chat communication with free software.Stay connected to know more about my further journey through GSoC.

• Contribute constructively - no one likes to be told "You've got a REALLY ugly baby there" or equivalent.
• Think through what you post: check references and check that it reads clearly and is spelled correctly
• Add value

• Provide as full details of hardware and software as you have
• Answer questions carefully: Ask questions the smart way: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
• Be prepared to follow up queries / provide sufficient evidence to reproduce behaviour or provide pathological test cases
• Provide a patch if possible: even if it's only pseudocode

• Keep pristine sources that you have downloaded
• Maintain patch series against pristine source
• Talk to the originators of the software / current maintainers elsewhere
• Follow upstream style if feasible / a consistent house style if not
• Be generous in what you accept: be precise in what you put out
• Don't produce licence conflicts - check and check again that your software can be distributed.
• Don't apply inconsistent copyrights

• Make permissions explicit and publish under a well established FLOSS licence
• Be generous to potential contributors and collaborators: render them every assistance so that they can help you better
• Be generous in what you accept: be precise in what you put out
• Don't produce licence conflicts - check and check again that your software can be distributed.
• Don't apply inconsistent copyrights: software you write is your copyright at the outset until you assign it elsewhere
• Contribute documentation / examples
• Maintain a bugtracker and mailing lists for your software

• Ensure that you have the rights you purport to assign
• Assign the minimum of rights necessary - if you can continue to allow full and free use of your code, do so
• Meet any required code of conduct [CoC] stipulations in addition to the CLA

(It is a gross oversimplification, but for the purposes of OpenStack CI, Jenkins is pretty much used as a glorified ssh/scp wrapper. Zuul Version 3, under development, is working to remove the need for Jenkins to be involved at all).

OpenStack CI Overview While previous post was really focused on the image-building components of the OpenStack CI system, overview is the same but more focused on the launchers that run the tests.

1. The process starts when a developer uploads their code to gerrit via the git-review tool. There is no further action required on their behalf and the developer simply waits for results of their jobs.

2. Gerrit provides a JSON-encoded "fire-hose" output of everything happening to it. New reviews, votes, updates and more all get sent out over this pipe. Zuul is the overall scheduler that subscribes itself to this information and is responsible for managing the CI jobs appropriate for each change.

3. Zuul has a configuration that tells it what jobs to run for what projects. Zuul can do lots of interesting things, but for the purposes of this discussion we just consider that it puts the jobs it wants run into gearman for a launcher to consume. gearman is a job-server; as they explain it "[gearman] provides a generic application framework to farm out work to other machines or processes that are better suited to do the work". Zuul puts into gearman basically a tuple (job-name, node-type) for each job it wants run, specifying the unique job name to run and what type of node it should be run on.

4. A group of Zuul launchers are subscribed to gearman as workers. It is these Zuul launchers that will consume the job requests from the queue and actually get the tests running. However, a launcher needs two things to be able to run a job a job definition (what to actually do) and a worker node (somewhere to do it). The first part what to do is provided by job-definitions stored in external YAML files. The Zuul launcher knows how to process these files (with some help from Jenkins Job Builder, which despite the name is not outputting XML files for Jenkins to consume, but is being used to help parse templates and macros within the generically defined job definitions). Each Zuul launcher gets these definitions pushed to it constantly by Puppet, thus each launcher knows about all the jobs it can run automatically. Of course Zuul also knows about these same job definitions; this is the job-name part of the tuple we said it put into gearman. The second part somewhere to run the test takes some more explaining. To the next point...

5. Several cloud companies donate capacity in their clouds for OpenStack to run CI tests. Overall, this capacity is managed by a customized management tool called nodepool (you can see the details of this capacity at any given time by checking the nodepool configuration). Nodepool watches the gearman queue and sees what requests are coming out of Zuul. It looks at node-type of jobs in the queue (i.e. what platform the job has requested to run on) and decides what types of nodes need to start and which cloud providers have capacity to satisfy demand. Nodepool will start fresh virtual machines (from images built daily as described in the prior post), monitor their start-up and, when they're ready, put a new "assignment job" back into gearman with the details of the fresh node. One of the active Zuul launchers will pick up this assignment job and register the new node to itself.

6. At this point, the Zuul launcher has what it needs to actually get jobs started. With an fresh node registered to it and waiting for something to do, the Zuul launcher can advertise its ability to consume one of the waiting jobs from the gearman queue. For example, if a ubuntu-trusty node is provided to the Zuul launcher, the launcher can now consume from gearman any job it knows about that is intended to run on an ubuntu-trusty node type. If you're looking at the launcher code this is driven by the NodeWorker class you can see this being created in response to an assignment via LaunchServer.assignNode. To actually run the job where the "job hits the metal" as it were the Zuul launcher will dynamically construct an Ansible playbook to run. This playbook is a concatenation of common setup and teardown operations along with the actual test scripts the jobs wants to run. Using Ansible to run the job means all the flexibility an orchestration tool provides is now available to the launcher. For example, there is a custom console streamer library that allows us to live-stream the console output for the job over a plain TCP connection, and there is the possibility to use projects like ARA for visualisation of CI runs. In the future, Ansible will allow for better coordination when running multiple-node testing jobs after all, this is what orchestration tools such as Ansible are made for! While the Ansible run can be fairly heavyweight (especially when you're talking about launching thousands of jobs an hour), the system scales horizontally with more launchers able to consume more work easily. When checking your job results on logs.openstack.org you will see a _zuul_ansible directory now which contains copies of the inventory, playbooks and other related files that the launcher used to do the test run.

7. Eventually, the test will finish. The Zuul launcher will put the result back into gearman, which Zuul will consume (log copying is interesting but a topic for another day). The testing node will be released back to nodepool, which destroys it and starts all over again nodes are not reused and also have no sensitive details on them, as they are essentially publicly accessible. Zuul will wait for the results of all jobs for the change and post the result back to Gerrit; it either gives a positive vote or the dreaded negative vote if required jobs failed (it also handles merges to git, but that is also a topic for another day).

Work will continue within OpenStack Infrastructure to further enhance Zuul; including better support for multi-node jobs and "in-project" job definitions (similar to the https://travis-ci.org/ model); for full details see the spec.

use strict; # let's not forget best practices ;-)
use warnings;
use Config::Model qw(cme); # cme function must be imported
cme('popcon')->modify("PARTICIPATE=yes");

my $instance = cme('popcon');
$instance->load("PARTICIPATE=yes");
$instance->apply_fixes;
$instance->say_changes; 
$instance->save;

Changes applied to popcon configuration:
- PARTICIPATE: 'no' -> 'yes'

my $root_node = cme('popcon')->config_root;
say "is popcon active ? ",$root_node->fetch_element_value('PARTICIPATE');

• Scarlett Clark worked on making some packages reproducible, focusing on KDE backend and utility programs.
• Ceridwen published an initial design for the interface for reprotest, including a discussion on different types of build variations and the difficulties of specifying certain types of variations.
• Valerie Young improved documentation for building our tests website, began migrating Debian-specific pages into a new namespace, and planned future work around its navigation.

• TeX Live 2016 released with SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for all engines except LuaTeX and original TeX.
• Continued discussion (alternative archive) with TeX upstream, about SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH corner cases, eventually resulting in the FORCE_SOURCE_DATE proposal from above.
• gcc-5/5.4.0-4 by Matthias Klose now avoids storing -fdebug-prefix-map in DW_AT_producer, thanks to original patch by Daniel Kahn Gillmor.
• sphinx/1.4.3-1 by Dmitry Shachnev now drops Debian-specific patches relating to SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH applied upstream, original patch by Alexis Bienven e.
• asciidoctor/1.5.4-2 by C dric Boutillier now supports SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH, thanks to original patch by Alexis Bienven e.
• dh-python/1.5.4-2 by Piotr O arowski now behaves better in some cases, thanks to original patch by Chris Lamb.

• excellent-bifurcation/0.0.20071015-8 by Vincent Cheng, original patch by Reiner Herrmann.
• gnurobbo/0.68+dfsg-2 by Stephen Kitt, original patch by Reiner Herrmann.

• gdbm/1.8.3-14 by Matthias Klose, original patch by J r my Bobbio.
• miceamaze/4.2.1-3 by Sarah COUDERT, original patch by Reiner Herrmann.
• netcdf/1:4.4.1~rc2-1~exp3 by Bas Couwenberg.
• osmo-bts/0.4.0-2 by Ruben Undheim.
• pd-hcs/0.1-3 by IOhannes m zm lnig.
• pd-hid/0.7-2 by IOhannes m zm lnig.
• python-certbot/0.8.0-1 by Harlan Lieberman-Berg, original patch by Chris Lamb.
• python-csb/1.2.3+dfsg-3 by Sascha Steinbiss.
• python-osprofiler/1.3.0-2 by Thomas Goirand.
• usb-modeswitch-data/20160112-3 by Didier Raboud, original patch by intrigeri.

• bzr/2.7.0-7 by Jelmer Vernoo .
• clanlib/1.0~svn3827-5 by Stephen Kitt, original patch by Chris Lamb.
• dwarfutils/20160507+git20160523.9086738-1 by Fabian Wolff.
• fakeroot/1.20.2-2 by Clint Adams, original patch.
• fastqtl/2.184+dfsg-2 by Dylan A ssi, original patch by Chris Lamb.
• gnuplot/5.0.3+dfsg3-3 by Anton Gladky.
• lazarus/1.6+dfsg-3 by Paul Gevers.
• python-pygit2/0.24.0-3 by Ond ej Nov .

• #806331 against xz-utils by Ximin Luo: make the selected POSIX shell stable accross build environments
• #806494 against gnupg by intrigeri: Make man pages not embed a build-time dependent timestamp
• #806945 against bash by Reiner Herrmann and Ximin Luo: Use the system man2html, and set PGRP_PIPE unconditionally.
• #825857 against python-setuptools by Anton Gladky: sort libs in native_libs.txt
• #826408 against brainparty by Reiner Herrmann: Sort object files for deterministic linking order
• #826416 against blockout2 by Reiner Herrmann: Sort the list of source files
• #826418 against xgalaga++ by Reiner Herrmann: Sort source files to get a deterministic linking order
• #826423 against kraptor by Reiner Herrmann: Sort source files for deterministic linking order
• #826431 against traceroute by Reiner Herrmann: Sort lists of libraries/source/object files
• #826544 against doc-debian by intrigeri: make the created files stable regardless of the locale
• #826676 against python-openstackclient by Chris Lamb: make the build reproducible
• #826677 against cadencii by Chris Lamb: make the build reproducible
• #826760 against dctrl-tools by Reiner Herrmann: Sort object files for deterministic linking order
• #826951 against slicot by Alexis Bienven e: please make the build reproducible (fileordering)
• #826982 against hoichess by Reiner Herrmann: Sort object files for deterministic linking order

• cryptographic_signature
• timestamps_in_maven_version_files
• ftbfs_build-indep_not_build_on_some_archs
• timestamps_added_by_xbean_spring
• timestamps_in_maven_metadata_local_xml_files
• timestamps_in_documentation_generated_by_asciidoctor

• Mattia Rizzolo uploaded diffoscope/54 to jessie-backports.

• Mattia uploaded strip-nondeterminism/0.018-1 to jessie-backports, to support a debhelper backport.
• Andrew Ayer uploaded strip-nondeterminism/0.018-2 fixing #826700, a packaging improvement for Multi-Arch to ease cross-build situations.
• 2 days later Andrew released strip-nondeterminism/0.019; now strip-nondeterminism is able to:
  • recursively normalize JAR files embedded within JAR files (#823917)
  • clamp the timestamp, the same way tar >=1.28-2.2 can (for now available only for gzip archives)

• Andrew Ayer released disorderfs/0.4.3, fixing a issue with umask handling (#826891)

• Valerie Young namespaced the Debian-specific pages to /debian/ namespace, with redirects to for the previous URLs.
• Holger Levsen improved the reliability of build jobs: the availability of both build nodes (for a given build) is now being tested when a build job is started, to better cope when one of the 25 build nodes go down for some reason.
• Ximin Luo improved the index of identified issues to include the total popcon scores of each issue, which is now also used for sorting that page.

• Without new development, a library (or an OS) can't go anywhere new
• New development sometimes breaks existing applications

• indoor training sessions only help with endurance (but they do good on this); they don't help with technique, and most importantly, they don't teach how to handle the bike in inclement weather; biking to work on paved road also doesn't help.
• nevertheless, indoor training does help with endurance
• mud guards ; before the race, I thought they'll help; during the race, I cursed at the extra weight and their seemingly uselessness; after the race, after I saw how other people looked, I realised that indeed they helped a lot I was only dirty on my legs, mostly below the knee, but not on my upper body. Unsure whether I will use the again.
• a drop seat is not needed if your seat is set in-between, but sure damn would have been more easy with one
• installing your GPS on your handle-bar with elastic bands in a section of non-constant diameter is a very bad idea, as it lives in an unstable equilibrium: any move towards the thinner section makes the mount very loose, and you have to lose time fixing it.

1. Computers work with Bytes. Bytes go in, Bytes go out.
2. The world needs more than 256 symbols.
3. You need both Bytes and Unicode
4. You cannot infer the encoding of bytes.
5. Declared encodings can be Wrong

1. Unicode sandwich
2. Know what you have
3. TEST

• It accepts only exactly one tested source package, and gives a proper error if none or more than one (often unintend) is given. Binaries to be tested, --override-control, etc. can now be specified in any order, making the arguments position independent. So you now can do things like:

  autopkgtest *.dsc *.deb [...]

  Before, *.deb only applied to the following test.
• The explicit --source, --click-source etc. options are gone, the type of tested source/binary packages, including built vs. unbuilt tree, is detected automatically. Tests are now only specified with positional arguments, without the need (or possibility) to explicitly specify their type. The one exception is --installed-click com.example.myapp as possible names are the same as for apt source package names.

  # Old:
  adt-run --unbuilt-tree pkgs/foo-2 [...]
  # or equivalently:
  adt-run pkgs/foo-2// [...]
  # New:
  autopkgtest pkgs/foo-2

  # Old:
  adt-run --git-source http://example.com/foo.git [...]
  # New:
  autopkgtest http://example.com/foo.git [...]
  

• The virtualization server is now separated with a double instead of a tripe dash, as the former is standard Unix syntax.
• It defaults to the current directory if that is a Debian source package. This makes the command line particularly simple for the common case of wanting to run tests in the package you are just changing:

  autopkgtest -- schroot sid

  Assuming the current directory is an unbuilt Debian package, this will build the package, and run the tests in ./debian/tests against the built binaries.
• The virtualization server must be specified with its short name only, e. g. ssh instead of adt-virt-ssh . They also don t get installed into $PATH any more, as it s hardly useful to call them directly.

• AUTOPKGTEST_APT_PROXY
• AUTOPKGTEST_ARTIFACTS
• AUTOPKGTEST_AUTOPILOT_MODULE
• AUTOPKGTEST_NORMAL_USER
• AUTOPKGTEST_REBOOT_MARK
• AUTOPKGTEST_TMP