[gentoo-soc] Distfile patching support - Weekly report #5

[gentoo-soc] Distfile patching support - Weekly report #5

[Rafael Martins]

Hi all

Quick summary: Improve the performance of the Gentoo Linux mirrors by
reducing the overall bandwidth load, allowing people to fetch binary
patches from the mirrors, instead of the full source tarballs, when
updating some package. This project is partially based on GLEP 25.

The project is ahead of schedule.

== Progress ==

This week I didn't much, I guess. I'm fixing some thing in my scripts
for the full tree run, that I can't start yet. I was also working on
my Bachelor thesis and organizing things for FISL[1]. The project is
yet ahead of schedule though. On the "publicity" side I talked about
my project at Google OSS Jam São Paulo [2], last thursday, and got
some nice feedback.

== Next steps ==

Tomorrow I'm traveling to Porto Alegre to represent Gentoo at FISL
[1]. We'll have a booth there. If you are around, check it out :).
Anyway, I'll be running the tests from there, and monitoring.

[1] http://rafaelmartins.eng.br/post/google-oss-jam-2011-sao-paulo/
[2] http://softwarelivre.org/fisl12?lang=en

Best Regards,

-- 
Rafael Goncalves Martins
http://rafaelmartins.eng.br/

[gentoo-soc] Re: Distfile patching support - Weekly report #5

[Rafael Martins]

On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Rafael Martins
<rafael@rafaelmartins.eng.br> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Quick summary: Improve the performance of the Gentoo Linux mirrors by
> reducing the overall bandwidth load, allowing people to fetch binary
> patches from the mirrors, instead of the full source tarballs, when
> updating some package. This project is partially based on GLEP 25.
>
> The project is ahead of schedule.
>
> == Progress ==
>
> This week I didn't much, I guess. I'm fixing some thing in my scripts
> for the full tree run, that I can't start yet. I was also working on
> my Bachelor thesis and organizing things for FISL[1]. The project is
> yet ahead of schedule though. On the "publicity" side I talked about
> my project at Google OSS Jam São Paulo [2], last thursday, and got
> some nice feedback.
>
> == Next steps ==
>
> Tomorrow I'm traveling to Porto Alegre to represent Gentoo at FISL
> [1]. We'll have a booth there. If you are around, check it out :).
> Anyway, I'll be running the tests from there, and monitoring.
>
> [1] http://rafaelmartins.eng.br/post/google-oss-jam-2011-sao-paulo/
> [2] http://softwarelivre.org/fisl12?lang=en
>

Bah, I messed the references :P
[1] is [2] and [2] is [1].

Thanks!

-- 
Rafael Goncalves Martins
http://rafaelmartins.eng.br/

Re: [gentoo-soc] Distfile patching support - Weekly report #5

[Donnie Berkholz]

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On 15:35 Mon 27 Jun     , Rafael Martins wrote:
> This week I didn't much, I guess. I'm fixing some thing in my scripts 
> for the full tree run, that I can't start yet. I was also working on 
> my Bachelor thesis and organizing things for FISL[1]. The project is 
> yet ahead of schedule though. On the "publicity" side I talked about 
> my project at Google OSS Jam São Paulo [2], last thursday, and got 
> some nice feedback.

Nice as in complimentary or useful? If useful, what were the 
questions/suggestions?

-- 
Thanks,
Donnie

Donnie Berkholz
Admin, Summer of Code
Gentoo Linux and X.Org
Blog: http://dberkholz.com

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Re: [gentoo-soc] Distfile patching support - Weekly report #5

[Rafael Martins]

On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 15:35 Mon 27 Jun     , Rafael Martins wrote:
>> This week I didn't much, I guess. I'm fixing some thing in my scripts
>> for the full tree run, that I can't start yet. I was also working on
>> my Bachelor thesis and organizing things for FISL[1]. The project is
>> yet ahead of schedule though. On the "publicity" side I talked about
>> my project at Google OSS Jam São Paulo [2], last thursday, and got
>> some nice feedback.
>
> Nice as in complimentary or useful? If useful, what were the
> questions/suggestions?
>
> --

Mostly complimentary but also useful. People from outside the project
can see things that I can't easily, like rebember to warn users that
they should keep the old distfiles in place if they want to take
advantage of deltas. :)

Best regards,

-- 
Rafael Goncalves Martins
http://rafaelmartins.eng.br/