F/LOSS activity, July 2017
Once again, my focus was on Gitano, which we're working toward a 1.1 for. We had another one of our Gitano developer days which was attended by Richard maw and myself. You are invited to read the wik…
Yay, finished my degree at last
A little while back, in June, I sat my last exam for what I hoped would be the last module in my degree. For seven years, I've been working on a degree with the Open University and have been taking a…
F/LOSS activity, June 2017
It seems to be becoming popular to send a mail each month detailing your free software work for that month. I have been slowly ramping my F/LOSS activity back up, after years away where I worked on c…
Yarn architecture discussion
Recently Rob and I visited Soile and Lars. We had a lovely time wandering around Helsinki with them, and I also spent a good chunk of time with Lars working on some design and planning for the Yarn t…
Gitano - Approaching Release - Deprecated commands
As mentioned previously I am working toward getting Gitano into Stretch. Last time we spoke about lace, on which a colleague and friend of mine (Richard Maw) did a large pile of work. This time I'm …
Gitano - Approaching Release - Access Control Changes
As mentioned previously I am working toward getting Gitano into Stretch. A colleague and friend of mine (Richard Maw) did a large pile of work on Lace to support what we are calling sub-defines. The…
Gitano - Approaching Release - Changes
Continuing on from the previous article, here is a (probably incomplete) list of the critical changes to Gitano which have been, or will be, worked on during the run toward a 1.0 release. Each of the…
Gitano - Approaching Release - Work
I have been working quite hard, along with my friend and colleague Richard Maw, on getting Gitano ready for a release suitable for inclusion into Debian Stretch. You can see how we're doing on the var…
Kicad hacking - Intra-sheet links and ERC
This is a bit of an odd posting since it's about something I've done but is also here to help me explain why I did it and thus perhaps encourage some discussion around the topic within the Kicad comm…