[three]Bean

I wrote last week about how a few of us from Fedora were at PyCon US in Montreal for the week. It's all over and done with and we're back home now (I got a flu-like bug for the second time this season on the way home...) So, these are just some quick notes on what I did at the sprints!

• Early on, I ported python-fedora to python3 and afterwards bkabrda picked up the torch and ported fedmsg and the expansive fedmsg_meta module. The one thing standing in the way of full-on python3 fedmsg is the M2Crypto library which will probably not see python3 compatibility anytime soon. Slavek courageously ported half of fedmsg's crypto stack to the python3-compatible cryptography library only to find that it didn't support the other half of the equation. We're keeping those changes in a branch until that gets caught up.

• The most exciting bit was helping Nolski with his tool that puts fedmsg notifications on the OSX desktop. It totally works. Crazy, right?

• Later in the week, I helped decause a bit with his new cardsite app. Load it up and let it run for a while. It's yet another neat way to visualize the activity of the Fedora community in realtime.

• I started a prototype of fedora-hubs which doesn't do much but display little dummy widgets, but it is useful for reflecting on how the architecture ought to work.

• I wrote some code to get the fedmsg-notify desktop tool to pull its preferences from the FMN service. The changes work, but they required some server-side patches to FMN that are done, but haven't yet been rolled out to production (and we're in freeze for the Beta release anyways..).

  In order to use your FMN preferences, you currently have to set a gsettings value by hand which is unacceptable and gross, but I'm not sure how to present it in the config UI. We can't just go all-in with FMN because there are other distros out there (Debian) which use fedmsg-notify but which don't run their own FMN service. We'll have to think on it and let it sit for a while.

• Lastly, Bodhi2 saw some good work. (We fixed some bugs that needed to be hammered out before release and we actually have an RPM and installed it on a cloud node! Staging will be coming next once some el7 compat deps get sorted out.)

• ncohglan introduced us to the authors of kallithea which led to some conversations about pagure and where we can collaborate.

• I was really glad to meet sijis for fun-time late-night hackery in the hotel lobby.

That's all I can remember. It was a whirlwind, as always. Happy Hacking!