Archive for the ‘Open Source’ Category
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/07
This one is clear and concise. [Wayback/Archive] liburing/CONTRIBUTING.md at master · axboe/liburing · GitHub of which some highlights:
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The main reasons for the rules are:
- Keep the code consistent
- Keep the git repository consistent
- Maintain bisectability
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No fixup commits! Sometimes people post a change and errors are pointed out in the commit, and the author then does a followup fix for that error. This isn’t acceptable, please squash fixup commits into the commit that introduced the problem in the first place. This is done by amending the fix into the original commit that caused the issue. You can do that with git rebase -i and arrange the commit order such that the fixup is right after the original commit, and then use ‘s‘ (for squash) to squash the fixup into the original commit. Don’t forget to edit the commit message while doing that, as git will combine the two commit messages into one. Or you can do it manually. Once done, force push your rewritten git history. See reasons 1-3 in the introduction series for why that is.
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A good commit explains the WHY of a commit – explain the reason for this commit to exist. Don’t explain what the code in commit does, that should be readily apparent from just reading the code. liburing commits follow the following format:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/08/31
Someone pointed me to the answer of [Wayback/Archive] open source – What are the legal considerations when forking a BSD-licensed project? – Software Engineering Stack Exchange by [Wayback/Archive] Earlz (question by [Wayback/Archive] Thomas Owens):
The common thing I see to handle this is basically using some kind of version control and when a file is changed by a large amount, adding a copyright header.
For instance, in OpenBSD I believe they follow a convention like this:
--top of file--
[copyright header of recent "major" editor]
[copyright header of previous major editor]
[copyright header of creator]
(where copyright header is BSD license or whatever)
This handles the copyright issue for the most part. Basically anytime a major edit is done on a file, a copyright header will be added. Major is subjective, but usually involves more than trivial refactoring or porting.
Which meant that some copyrights had to be updated at [Wayback/Archive] Update copyrights · Issue #37 · jpluimers/fritzcap · GitHub
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/05/27
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/09/16
[WayBack] A thread written by @SwiftOnSecurity:
Corporate purchasing and policies make funding open source Literally Impossible.
Nothing’s going to change until you make them pay you.
Someone filed a bug?
Support contract.
Someone wants a feature?
Support contract.
It’s literally easier to pay you $1500/yr than $25 once.
Edit: since Threader/Threader_app died, I archived the Twitter thread at Archive.today.
And much more: worth a long read.
Via another interesting post: [WayBack] Idea for FOSS projects. Register your project/product name as a trademark and only use it for official, stable releases. Have a different name for your … – Jan Wildeboer – Google+
Idea for FOSS projects. Register your project/product name as a trademark and only use it for official, stable releases. Have a different name for your not-(yet)-stable Code.
Put trademark agreements in place. Everyone who uses your trademarked name for services based on your code has to pay. Everybody using the non-stable code is free to do so, but cannot use your trademarked name.
With lots of interesting comments:
- Jan Wildeboer
+Andreas Kahler because when you don’t allow use without pay you are violating the open source principles.
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It’s how most distros work – it can be a problem though because you then control how the mark is used and without care it becomes a blocker. Eg it’s really hard to ship Unbuntu based stuff because you can’t modify Ubuntu and call it Ubuntu (which is fair enough) , but for cloud images – problem.
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+Alan Cox That’s why it IMHO makes more sense for projects/products.
- Jan Wildeboer+1
+Torsten Kleinz … Setting up a new provider at any medium to big company is a big, lengthy and horrifyingly complex process.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/12/03
Since Thomas has been moving projects to OSDN, he now keeps a list of which one is where at [WayBack] My Open Source Projects – twm’s blog
via:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/10/22
Medical devices are still vulnerable, five years after this became public:
Former US Vice President Dick Cheney’s doctors disabled his pacemaker’s wireless capabilities to thwart possible assassination attempts, he said in an interview with CBS’s ̶…
[WayBack] Doctors disabled wireless in Dick Cheney’s pacemaker to thwart hacking – Naked Security
I knew they were, but never realised Dick Cheney had a modified one implanted.
Some people are more equal to others…
via: the below video “Freedom In My Heart And Everywhere” from the linux.conf.au 2012 Keynote by Karen Sandler.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/11/30
Interesting: https://github.com/MinBZK/OperatieBRP
[WayBack] The Netherlands saw a big I.T. project meant to deliver a new citizen registry system fail. So they did one thing right. All the source code is now on github… – Jan Wildeboer – Google+
It includes both documentation and source code.
A bit of browsing reveals at least some of the technologies used:
Most of the SQL code seems to be generated.
There are truckloads of .XML configuration files, typical for a Java environment. Some configuration is in .properties files.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/09/12
At the time of discovering Welcome to workaround.org via More ISP Mail saveback – Joe C. Hecht – Google+:
The famous ISP-style mail server tutorials live here. Learn how to set up your own fully-functional mail server using Postfix, Dovecot IMAP/POP3 and MySQL backend on a Debian server just like your favorite mail or website hosting provider.
I have been maintaining the ISPmail tutorial since Debian Woody. However those older Debian versions are no longer supported. If you still like to read the old versions I have provided PDF versions of the tutorials for Squeeze, Lenny, Etch, Sarge andWoody.
My daily work leads to various discoveries and insights. Some were petty but others really brightened my day.
I am a system administrator and programmer. In my nerdy spare time I work on web applications, Python and Ruby programs, write articles or explore new software technologies. On workaround.org you can find news, solutions and hints on my findings and get help. Of course your feedback is welcome.
These are some projects I am currently working on:
- IRC is a great medium for getting instant help (at least on the freenode IRC network). I have collected some tips about Getting help on IRC to help you get help instead of getting barbecued.
- knoba’s factoids
I run a bot called knoba (short for knowledge base) on the freenode IRC network. Two channels I visit frequently are #postfix and #squid. So I have fed the bot with lots of factoids that you can query using !foobar in the channel. These are the factoids understood in #squid and #postfix. Please don’t play with the bot publicly. Send it a “/msg knoba help" and learn how it works.
My daily work leads to various discoveries and insights. Some were petty but others really brightened my day.
Squid is a powerful open-source web proxy. I was responsible for a large Squid installation at a former employer. Maybe the following articles help you save time in your daily work.
Padrino is an lean Ruby web framework. It is an interesting alternative to the heavier Ruby-on-Rails. I spent quite some time with it and created a couple of articles about it:
Zabbix is a mighty open-source monitoring software. If you need a serious system for your organisation and manage to condone its creepy web interface it is hands down the the most superior software I have ever seen. And I have been dealing with monitoring software since Nagios was called Netsaint.
These articles should help you in your daily work maintaining a monitoring system:
–jeroen
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