Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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- Up early: poked at various things. Chronically irritated
by -yet-more- d-bus related fatal crashes caused by API mismatch.
It seems that having not taken my advice some years back to allow
some level of compatible API evolution, we're lumbered with a fragile
situation where, when people change the API, un-modified clients crash.
Since there are no hard (or in particular RPM) dependencies generated
for this stuff, you can trivially update just 1 half of the contract
and things start crashing for no good reason. Urg. How simple it would
be to mandate the toleration of missing/extra arguments - the type-data
on the wire, and in the method signature makes that trivial.
- Embarassingly Jeff Cai from Sun came up with a correct fix
for the ORBit2 deadlock I thought I'd nailed causing e-d-s hangs,
tested, expanded & committed to both branches.
- Ran the Xgl validation tests for the T60p - nearly perfect.
Dug at the gnome login script, poked at the nautilus CD recorder.
My content in this blog and associated images / data under
images/ and data/ directories are (usually)
created by me and (unless obviously labelled otherwise) are licensed under
the public domain, and/or if that doesn't float your boat a CC0
license. I encourage linking back (of course) to help people decide for
themselves, in context, in the battle for ideas, and I love fixes /
improvements / corrections by private mail.
In case it's not painfully obvious: the reflections reflected here are my
own; mine, all mine ! and don't reflect the views of Collabora, SUSE,
Novell, The Document Foundation, Spaghetti Hurlers (International),
or anyone else.
It's also important to realise that I'm not in on the Swedish Conspiracy.
Occasionally people ask for formal photos for conferences
or fun.
Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@collabora.com)
