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Tahrir

• Fedora cloud node is still live with current develop branch, though not much in the way of end-user functionality. That will be this coming week.

• Notable improvements to the interface.

  • Better structure.
  • More Fedora look & feel.
  • Built Fedora Badges logo.
  • Implemented initial Tahrir logo and favicon. Thanks, Decause.

• Did away with is_admin and implemented proper Pyramid __acl__ machinery. See issue #33.

• As per issue #61, took variables base_url and title out of views' return dicts and added them as Pyramid events with super-fancy Pyramid magic:

  # This is Tahrir's events.py file.
  
  from pyramid.events import (
      subscriber,
      BeforeRender,
  )
  
  from pyramid.security import (
      authenticated_userid,
  )
  
  
  @subscriber(BeforeRender)
  def inject_globals(event):
      """Injects global variables into every template after the view
      is processed but before the template is rendered."""
  
      # request is available in every template, and we can just pull it
      # in like so...
      request = event['request']
  
      # ... and then set a couple global variables that will be available
      # in every template, so we don't have to pass them through the
      # dict returned by the view every time!
      event['title'] = request.registry.settings['tahrir.title']
      event['base_url'] = request.registry.settings['tahrir.base_url']
  

• Began rewiring database structure. Tahrir will now soon have a database connection through tahrir_api.dbapi to tahrir_api.model, rather than being directly connected to tahrir_api.model. I will be implementing the currently-unused TahrirDatabase class provided by Tahrir-API's dbapi.py file.

• Other changes required by changes to database model in Tahrir-API, detailed below.

Tahrir API

• Learned Alembic and wrote some migration scripts for the database additions I planned to make. It was cool. They worked.
• Made additions to database detailed in recent posts. Check out the before post and the after post.
• Fixed a failing test caused by one of my changes. Also fixed a warning regarding silly unicode things. Note: hashlib's hexdigest() function does not return a unicode value.

Badges General

• Added badge ideas found on this old wiki page to my overarching summer badges repo.
• Threebean, Decause, and Jenn contributed a significant amount to the repo today.
• Threebean is hard at work implementing many of the badges outlined in the repo. But I'll let him talk about that.

Previous State of Fedbadges

• State of Fedbadges #1

Daily Misc.

• ASCiiFLOW is a cool thing.
  • I have some feelings about the very persistent "Help us improve this website" dialog.
• Daily Dead: 71-12-07
  • Chooba chooba

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Fedora Tagger

• Tagged some things in Fedora Tagger.
• Fixed a typo in Fedora Tagger.

Tahrir-API

• Fixed failing test caused by recent addition of created_by field to the invitations table.
• Fixed test warning related to unicode stuff. Boy was that a pain.
  • Plenty of from __future__ import unicode_literals and unicode(). One part of the issue was that hexdigest() in the hashlib module doesn't return a unicode value.
• Thanks to Threebean for poking me about the failing tests and Qalthos for diving in with me and fixing the unicode issue.

Tahrir

• Continued hacking on authorization stuff. It WILL be done tomorrow.
  • Following that, I can start adding metrics, visualizations, more end-user functionality, and other cool stuff!

Miscellaneous

• Grateful Dead show: 71-02-20
  • It really is It For The Other One

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General

• Added a few things to my .zshrc (see dot-files repo).
• Signed up for coderbits. Dig the interface. It remains a challenge to effectively rank/score developer activity.
  • Exported badges to my Mozilla Persona Open Badges backpack.

Tahrir

• Implemented the favicon provided by decause, created from the Tahrir logo he designed, which is an abstraction of Tahrir Square.
• Spent most of the day hacking on authorization stuff. Implementing Pyramid's __acl__ machinery and doing some restructuring as per issue #33 and issue #61.

EPAUV

• Decause, Qalthos, and I are still in contact with the EPA regarding our submission for the National Day of Civic Hacking's EPA challenge.
  • See related blog post.
• Though we've provided screenshots, documentation, and whatnot, they really want a live demo as soon as we can. I must defeat OpenShift soon (and that means the latest version of charsheet will be live, too!).

yumwat

• This little thing I started the other day made a bit of progress
  • Found the docs I was after.
  • The functionality I need is not available where I need it. Pinged #yum on Freenode about this. There has to be a reasonable solution, what I'm attempting is far too basic.

Miscellaneous

• What is up with the results of pkgwat search fortune?

  • Related: sudo yum install astromenace -y.

• Grateful Dead show of the day: 1979-12-05.

• One of the recent changes to my .zshrc pipes the results of fortune -a via fortune-mod through cowsay. Results have been entertaining, as expected. One from tonight:

   _______________________
  < Too ripped. Gotta go. >
   -----------------------
          \   ^__^
           \  (oo)\_______
              (__)\       )\/\
                  ||----w |
                  ||     ||
  

I should really be keeping a better list of my thoughts and discoveries during my work day. Perhaps these logs will become a daily thing. If they do, they will definitely go along with more topical posts.

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