Please merge my patches. I want to give MongoDB the best possible “out of the box” experience on Fedora and RHEL EPEL. I’ve taken my time to make sure that these patches were written in a way that preserves upstream behavior and compatibility, because I think upstream should have a great experience too. Since we support [...]
I arrived at FUDCon this evening at about 5pm after picking up tdfischer and codeblocker from the airport. We went out to dinner with Colin Walters and John Palmieri and a bunch of others. It was a lot of fun. It was also great to meet up with Dan Walsh again and to meet Dave [...]
As MongoDB’s 1.8 release cycle is drawing to a close, I decided to update the Fedora 15 packages of MongoDB to the 1.7.x branch. The upgrade process from 1.6 to the 1.7.x/1.8.x series should be fairly straightforward. On non-replication/non-sharded setups it should be completely transparent: just upgrade the RPMs and restart; everything should work. For [...]
My Fedora RPMs for Natus v0.1.3 were approved and are in the process of making it through updates-testing. If you are running Fedora 13 or 14 and would like to try out Natus, you may do so using one of the following procedures: Wait about 24 hours for the packages to hit the mirrors, enable updates-testing [...]
18 Oct
Posted by Nathaniel McCallum as Technology
Just to be clear, my last post was not prompted by any particular event or person. The transition to git (from CVS) is new to pretty much everyone as evidenced by the numerous git related threads on fedora-devel. I thought I’d contribute to the discussion by giving a simple outline of what to do and what not [...]
When making modifications to a package that you are not familiar with, please take a look at the structure of the git archive using a tool like gitg. If you notice that the branches are kept in sync for a number of releases (ie rawhide, f14, f13, f12) using fast-forward merges, please don’t then proceed [...]
I’ve just tagged libgpod 0.8.0 for F13 updates-testing. This is the first step to an updated Banshee (1.8.0) in F13 as well as better iPhone/iPad support in the existing Rhythmbox. I’d really like to get some testing on this, so please, if you are using updates-testing and have any Apple-brand device, please check to see [...]
Banshee 1.8.0 entered F14 updates-testing sometime yesterday. This includes: iPhone/iPad support Amazon MP3 Store (money from the affiliate program goes to the GNOME Foundation!) Miro Podcast Directory Much, much, more… In short, please test it and provide your feedback here. There is a known issue of Apple devices not turning off the sync screen when [...]
In order to get iPhone support, Banshee must be built against several new packages which switch Banshee from using its HAL backend to the new gudev backend. The latest libgpod has already been merged and you can test it in F14 updates-testing (leave feedback here: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libgpod-0.7.95-1.fc14). I’ve also filed new package review requests for each [...]
About six months ago I wrote C# bindings for libgpod in hopes that Banshee would adopt it. I did this following the old volunteer principle: in a volunteer organization, don’t do 100%; instead donate just enough effort/money to motivate others to give. Well, I can happily say that thanks to the fantastic efforts of the [...]