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A little organization and updates!
Hi all!
I've been doing some poking around and realized that I don't have a good overall state-of-the-DW-development. I have some vague ideas about what some people are working on and interested in, but I wanted to make those vague ideas become a bit less vague. :)
If you have a few minutes, I'd appreciate you taking the time to answer a couple of quick questions here!
- Are you actively working on a bug (or several) right now? Which ones?
- What are you interested in working on -- broadly or narrowly, what do you want to do? (Or are you just open for suggestions?)
- Is there anything explicitly blocking you from doing what you want? (Knowledge, someone has the bug claimed for a year, need a hand with something, etc.)
- Free form! Anything you want to say or ask. :)
I also want us to have another development focused chat like we did some months ago. I think the last one I did was well timed for US developers but bad for EU, so I'll go the other way this time. I'm thinking something like 8AM Pacific which is midnight for ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fu and 4PM UTC on a Sunday. Reasonable?
Thanks!
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2 - I like styles, I like small bugs but everything's interesting. The only barriers for me are knowledge and time.
3 - Well, as I said, knowledge and time. I have to drop some bugs from time to time because I can't go any further or what I tried didn't work or because it's too big a project. This isn't a big issue for me, though. IT isn't my field; I'm always happy to learn new stuff but I don't want this to become a full-time hobby and being limited in what I can do is a very efficient way not to fall into that trap. I hope that makes sense. What else? Having a few more people work in styles would help too as it's hard to concentrate on bigger projects when themes and styles keep piling up. Hmm. Oh, workers. There are bugs I can't work on, even very simple ones, because I can't test things on my hack. Wiki entries about how to make them work would be very helpful I believe.
4 - It's good hearing from you. How are you and your family?
Edit: re: chat time. Depends on the date. If I work Sunday evenings aren't always a good time for me.
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It makes sense re: having some limits so that this can remain a hobby. It works out pretty well for DW though since you're good at working with the styles system, which not many people have the patience/expertise for.
I'll see what we can get put together re: the workers. I thought we had something, but apparently not! They're not super difficult to run, the problem is mostly just knowing which ones to do. Do you know if you've set up TheSchwartz or not? (Or if hack sets it up by default? I am not sure.)
My family and I are great! Oliver is cruising around with reckless abandon and starting to chatter -- not words, but just excited baby-talk -- it's really quite adorable. Henry is a handful, but he's three and I'm told that's supposed to happen; and to be fair, he's quite wonderful, it's just easy to mention the tantrums. This morning we were all sitting down and eating breakfast and Henry looked up from his cheerios and said "We're a family!" and I got tears in my eyes. It was just awesome.
I, on the other hand, am busy and crazy and don't stop moving until I pass out. Day job, Dreamwidth, family, flight lessons, 2 LARPs, 2 sit-down RPGs, ... I have packed myself to bursting. I'm actually shuffling some of these off to the "minimum attention" pile and debating flat-out cutting some and, for sure, some are temporary. I keep myself busy and yet that seems to be how I run best. High octane -- go go go.
Thanks for answering my questions! I'll definitely post up about the dev meeting chat but it will be an advanced notice; there will be plenty of notice!
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I think it's set up. I have all the data in config-private and the lines are uncommented. I've used $LJHOME/bin/worker-manager --debug and edited workers.conf and I can see it runs some stuff but I still can't get some emails (I've also used /admin/eventoutput whenever I could but it's hard to figure it out sometimes) or PMs or latest things. Don't know what I'm doing wrong.
Awww. How wonderful! I think it's hard to remember how intense things feel when you're so young and how intensely even if briefly you react in return because that's all you know. Is he going to kindergarten yet? (sorry if that's an odd question; I don't know how it works in your country :)
XD I imagined you flying the plane then jumping out of the plane then running to your job while taking your gear off. Go go go! Sorry for my silly ramblings. Seriously, though, we definitely need an official Captain Mark icon.
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A date has not been set yet! I've been ridiculously busy lately. Thank you for the reminder, though. I'll see if I can get something set up for early June. Probably right after YAPC, since that gives Denise and I some time to chat about things.
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If you have and they don't answer your question, or if there's room for improvement, you can either ask in the latest questions thread, file a Docs/Wiki bug or both.
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