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diff --git a/src/_posts/2017-11-01-hacktoberfest-2017.adoc b/src/_posts/2017-11-01-hacktoberfest-2017.adoc deleted file mode 100644 index 67c7746..0000000 --- a/src/_posts/2017-11-01-hacktoberfest-2017.adoc +++ /dev/null @@ -1,197 +0,0 @@ ---- -date: 2017-11-01 12:37:53 -tags: FreeSoftware Github Hacktoberfest Contributions -description: > - 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. - Nevertheless, I did contribute to free software, and this article lists these - contributions. ---- -= Hacktoberfest 2017 -:toc: preamble - -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. |