Category: webdev
Another Launchpad Bug Fixed!
On Tuesday, I managed to land a fix for another Launchpad bug. This one probably was my first non-trivial bug fix and also older than any other bug I’ve attempted (4-digit bug!) Earlier, during page load, Launchpad would take each bug, search if its, valid, get the title, and show tooltips. This feature was removed…
Looking for vim
Yesterday, I was trying to find how to get a terminal inside vim, like the embedded terminal in gEdit and Kate. Look what I found out instead! I have no words.
RTFD and Summit
Writing documentation isn’t easy. And maintaining up-to-date documentation isn’t easy either. readthedocs.org is a Django project which was written as part of Django Dash It is backed by RevSys, Python Software Foundation, and Mozilla Webdev. We can write our docs in Sphinx and import it into Read the Docs. I’ve just got it setup for…
Summit improvements and bug fixes
‘If I do that, I might break Summit!’ That’s something often heard at UDSes by organizers. Indeed, Summit has historically had stability issues, especially during the high-usage week of a UDS. But Summit is starting to outgrow it’s troubled youth, gaining better code, better testing, and most importantly, more stability. The Summit team, consisting of…
Helping with breakpad
Wednesday was a fun day. I finally decided to take the plunge and step in and help with Breakpad Fine day to make that decision too, since the Breakpad status meetings are on Wednesdays at 11 am Pacific Time. I ended up being on the call via Google Voice. (Side note: Skype on linux had…