Our friendly neighborhood irc bot zodbot gained some new powers last week:

First, .vacation will tell you who is on vacation right now according to the fedocal vacation calendar:

│ threebean │ .vacation
│    zodbot │ threebean: The following people are on vacation:
│           │ cicku, monnerat, tomspur, vondruch, nphilipp, kdudka, mtasaka

Second, .pulls will report back the list of open pull requests on a given GitHub repository. Hopefully this will catch on among Fedora Infrastructure app developers as a way to facilitate and prompt code review:

│ threebean │ .pulls fedora-infra/tahrir
│    zodbot │ threebean: @oddshocks's "Add checks to check for attempted
│           │ duplicate additions of things in admin panel."
│           │ https://github.com/fedora-infra/tahrir/pull/286
│    zodbot │ threebean: @hroncok's "Reenable gravatar fallback"
│           │ https://github.com/fedora-infra/tahrir/pull/209

Writing zodbot plugins is fun and you can do it too. The source can be found in git right here.

The apps.fp.o landing page got an update last week:

It was reorganized -- the categories in place before weren't thought out that well, and we had started to out-grow them. I reorganized the apps loosely by "purpose". If you have input and want to suggest changes, please do file a bug or submit a patch.

It got a fresh theme -- I updated the css from old bootstrap-2.x conventions to bootstrap-3.1.x and am now using our Fedora bootstrap theme -- the same css base that FMN and bodhi2 use.

It now has status integration -- some apps on the landing page now draw additional information from status.fp.o to give viewers a heads up if they're not functioning correctly.

gnokii tells me he uses this thing all the time in his "how to join Fedora" sessions since "nobody can remember all the different urls."

Just as a heads up, a new release of the Fedora Notifications app (FMN) was deployed today (version 0.3.0).

Want to help with the future direction of Fedora Badges and don't know where to start? One place we really need help is with the triaging, review, and conceptual work that goes into cooking up new badges.

It used to be that we had a real bottleneck. New badge ideas would be submitted to the fedora-badges trac but notifications of updates there (fresh insights, elaborations, requests for clarifications, etc..) would only be sent to members of the sysadmin-badges group (a small but sturdy crew).

Earlier this month, we hooked up trac notifications to the badges mailing list opening the door to broader participating -- you can now subscribe and take an active part in determining the future direction of the system!

NOTE -- Your action must be born of intrinsic motivation. There is no badge for joining the mailing list. I'm sorry.

If you didn't already know it, there is a Fedora Badge for associating a libravatar with your Fedora account.

A fun by-product of having such a thing is that we have a list of FAS usernames of people who have public avatars with predictable URLs. With that, I wrote a script that pulls down that list and assembles a "photo wall" of a random subset. Check it out:

I wrote it as a part of another project that I ended up junking, but the script is neat on its own.

Perhaps we can use it as a splash image for a Fedora website someday (say, next year's Flock site or a future iteration of FAS?). It might make a fun desktop wallpaper, too.

Here's the script if you'd like to re-use and modify. You can tweak the dimensions variable to change the number of rows and columns in the output.

#!/usr/bin/env python
""" fedora-photowall.py - Make a photo montage of Fedora contributors.

Dependencies:
 $ sudo yum install python-sh python-beautifulsoup4 python-requests ImageMagick

Usage:   python fedora-photowall.py
Author:  Ralph Bean
License: LGPLv2+

"""

import hashlib
import os
import random
import urllib

import sh
import bs4
import requests

dimensions = (12, 5)

datadir = './data'
avatar_dir = datadir + '/avatars'
montage_dir = datadir + '/montage'


def make_directories():
    try:
        os.makedirs(datadir)
    except OSError:
        pass

    try:
        os.makedirs(avatar_dir)
    except OSError:
        pass

    try:
        os.makedirs(montage_dir)
    except OSError:
        pass


def avatars(N):
    url = 'https://badges.fedoraproject.org/badge/mugshot/full'
    response = requests.get(url)
    soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(response.text)
    last_pane = soup.findAll(attrs={'class': 'grid-100'})[-1]
    persons = last_pane.findAll('a')

    persons = random.sample(persons, N)

    for person in persons:
        name = person.text.strip()
        openid = 'http://%s.id.fedoraproject.org/' % name
        hash = hashlib.sha256(openid).hexdigest()
        url = "https://seccdn.libravatar.org/avatar/%s" % hash
        yield (name, url)


def make_montage(candidates):
    """ Pull down avatars to disk and stich with imagemagick """

    filenames = []
    for name, url in candidates:
        filename = os.path.join(avatar_dir, name)
        if not os.path.exists(filename):
            print "Grabbing", name, "at", url
            urllib.urlretrieve(url, filename=filename)
        else:
            print "Already have", name, "at", filename
        filenames.append(filename)

    args = filenames + [montage_dir + '/montage.png']
    sh.montage('-tile', '%ix%i' % dimensions, '-geometry', '+0+0', *args)
    print "Output in", montage_dir


def main():
    make_directories()
    N = dimensions[0] * dimensions[1]
    candidates = avatars(N)
    make_montage(candidates)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

And another example of output:

Cheers!