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diff --git a/content/posts/2017/2017-11-01-hacktoberfest-2017.md b/content/posts/2017/2017-11-01-hacktoberfest-2017.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..95c8688 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/posts/2017/2017-11-01-hacktoberfest-2017.md @@ -0,0 +1,215 @@ +--- +title: Hacktoberfest 2017 +date: 2017-11-01 +tags: +- Contributions +- FreeSoftware +- Github +- Hacktoberfest +--- + +# Hacktoberfest 2017 + +This year I actively participated in the Hacktoberfest event, which is "a +month-long celebration of open source software". Ironic, given that the +companies organising it don't have their own software stack open source. + +I've found some issues to solve in [https://perl6.org/](Perl 6) projects, and +that lead to trying to solve issues in some other projects, and eventually I +got more PRs out than there are days in the month. It did go at the cost of +some sleep, but in the end it seems worth it. In this article, I'll give a +small overview of all those PRs, in no particular order. + +## Projects contributed to + +### Funtoo + +#### funtoo/boot-update + +- https://github.com/funtoo/boot-update/pull/14 + +When reinstalling my server to try out [https://docker.com](Docker), I noticed +an error in the output of the `boot-update` utility, a tool from +[https://www.funtoo.org/Welcome](Funtoo) to make installing and configuring the +bootloader easier. The error itself was a small type of a `-` which had to be a +`_`. + +#### scriptkitties/overlay + +- https://github.com/scriptkitties/overlay/pull/14 +- https://github.com/scriptkitties/overlay/pull/15 +- https://github.com/scriptkitties/overlay/pull/16 + +This is the overlay of the [https://scriptkitties.church](Scriptkitties) +community. It's got some additional software released under a free license that +is not available in the main portage repository. Most of the packages in here +are of software made by the Scriptkitties community. + +This month I updated the readme to be in asciidoc, my new favourite format for +documentation. The Travis builds should also no longer throw errors, so those +can be used again to ensure the overlay is meeting quality standards. One +package has also been updated to be at it's latest version again. + +### Perl 6 + +#### moznion/p6-HTML-Escape + +- https://github.com/moznion/p6-HTML-Escape/pull/1 + +On this repository, I added a subroutine to also handle unescaping HTML special +characters. Sadly, the owner of this repository has shown no sign of life, and +the PR remains open. + +#### rakudo/rakudo + +- https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/pull/1180 + +This is a rather small issue, but I noticed it when compiling Perl 6 with +[https://github.com/tadzik/rakudobrew](Rakudobrew) and it annoyed me. +[http://zoffix.com/](Zoffix) was a great help in getting me started on this one, +and in general with many other Perl related contributions as well. + +#### scriptkitties/perl6-IRC-Client-Plugin-Github + +- https://github.com/scriptkitties/perl6-IRC-Client-Plugin-Github/pull/2 + +A neat feature for the Github notification system, HMAC adds a header that can +be used to verify the body of the request, and can be used to verify the other +end of the connection knows the right "secret". Inspired by a Perl 6 bot that +already did this, I made a PR to make this a proper +[https://github.com/zoffixznet/perl6-IRC-Client](IRC::Client) plugin. It is still +being tested in [https://github.com/scriptkitties/musashi](musashi). + +#### perl6/roast + +- https://github.com/perl6/roast/pull/342 + +Roast is the test suite for Perl 6. There was an open issue for the IO::File +tests, which needed expansion. As my first contribution during a Perl 6 +squashaton, I expanded these tests to fix the issue that was open for it. + +#### vim-perl/vim-perl6 + +- https://github.com/vim-perl/vim-perl6/pull/9 +- https://github.com/vim-perl/vim-perl6/pull/10 + +This first PR has become a bit of a drag, with the maintainers not responding +for two weeks, but suddenly very eager to respond when I mention I'm going to +fork off and update the reference on the Perl documentation to my fork. +Nonetheless, it's sorted out, and the abbreviations for unicode operators +have been merged in! + +#### timo/json_fast + +- https://github.com/timo/json_fast/pull/32 + +`JSON::Fast` is the de-facto standard for dealing with JSON data in Perl 6 it +seems. For my work with `App::Cpan6` I wanted the JSON data to be ordered, so I +added that as an option when calling `to-json`. Having the JSON data ordered +makes it easier to compare diffs of two different versions of the data, making +git diffs a lot cleaner. + +Sadly, timo has not merged the PR yet, so I can't properly depend on it in +`App::Cpan6`. + +#### scriptkitties/perl6-SemVer + +- https://github.com/scriptkitties/perl6-SemVer/pull/1 + +This is one of the new projects I started. It is intended to be used in +`App::Cpan6`, since that uses [https://semver.org](Semantic Versioning) for all +modules it works with. This module defines a class that can interpret a SemVer +notation, and exposes methods to bump any part of the version. + +#### perl6/doc + +- https://github.com/perl6/doc/pull/1614 + +This has been one of the more annoying PRs to work on, as the current `zef` +maintainer insists everything but his module is wrong, and seemed very +uninterested to improve the situation for users. After some discussion on IRC, +some more discussion on IRC, and then some discussion on the PR itself, I +decided to just word the paragraph differently. + +I am still interested in improving the documentation here and the ecosystem +itself, mainly the `META6.json` specification, and getting `zef` to play nice +with this spec. If anyone else is interested in helping me out on this, do +message me on IRC! + +#### perl6/perl6.org + +- https://github.com/perl6/perl6.org/pull/86 +- https://github.com/perl6/perl6.org/pull/87 + +There were some open issues for the [https://perl6.org](perl6.org) website, and +I decided to take a look at some and try to fix them. This resulted in NeoVim +being added to the list of recommended editors for Perl 6, and the list of IRC +bots being updated to include all bots in use right now. + +#### scriptkitties/p6-MPD-Client + +- https://github.com/scriptkitties/p6-MPD-Client/pull/1 +- https://github.com/scriptkitties/p6-MPD-Client/pull/2 + +As I was making `App::MPD::AutoQueue` and `App::MPD::Notify`, I found some +issues in `MPD::Client`. I fixed those to get my two new projects working +nicely. + +#### melezhik/sparrowdo + +- https://github.com/melezhik/sparrowdo/pull/15 +- https://github.com/melezhik/sparrowdo/pull/18 + +Sparrowdo is a configuration management system, written in Perl 6. I learned +about it after a reference from the Perl 6 Weekly, and set out to try it. I ran +into some issues, which I reported and eventually fixed. + +In addition, I also rewrote the testing script for Travis, which enables +paralel builds of the tests. This has nearly halved the time required for +running the full test suite. + +#### perl6/ecosystem + +- https://github.com/perl6/ecosystem/pull/371 +- https://github.com/perl6/ecosystem/pull/372 +- https://github.com/perl6/ecosystem/pull/374 + +These PRs added a module, and removed that one and more later on, since I got a +PAUSE ID and uploaded my modules to CPAN. + +#### scriptkitties/perl6-App-Cpan6 + +- https://github.com/scriptkitties/perl6-App-Cpan6/pull/1 +- https://github.com/scriptkitties/perl6-App-Cpan6/pull/2 +- https://github.com/scriptkitties/perl6-App-Cpan6/pull/3 +- https://github.com/scriptkitties/perl6-App-Cpan6/pull/4 +- https://github.com/scriptkitties/perl6-App-Cpan6/pull/12 +- https://github.com/scriptkitties/perl6-App-Cpan6/pull/13 +- https://github.com/scriptkitties/perl6-App-Cpan6/pull/14 +- https://github.com/scriptkitties/perl6-App-Cpan6/pull/15 + +`App::Cpan6` is a tool I've started working on to assist me in creating new +Perl 6 modules. There's been a couple of tasks that I do often in the process +of creating a module, and those tasks should become easier and faster using +this module. + +If everything works out and I learn enough of the module installation process, +I might consider letting this deal with the installation and updating of +modules as well. + +## In retrospect + +The Hacktoberfest has been an interesting month for me. I've gotten to +contribute to a project I have come to love a lot, Perl 6. I've also made some +new friends with similar goals. Sadly I can't put in this much time every month +of the year, but I would if I could! + +I learned many interesting things for Perl 6, new operators, new functions, all +kinds of cool stuff to improve my Perl scripts with. I also got to learn about +parallelizing Travis builds with the Sparrowdo project, of which I will write +another tutorial post later. + +I've greatly enjoyed contributing to all the various projects, and would +recommend other people to check it out too. The people on the respective +project's IRC channels have been a great help to me to get started, and I can +help out getting you started as well now. |