Status update, July 2021
No status update since a long time (almost a year), mainly because of a lot of personal challenges. But now is the time to go back on the status update habit!
This kind of article is used to keep track of what I have achieved over the course of the last month-or-so. Why keeping track? Because it is a nice way to remind me that I have not been that lazy during the month. And also because it may make you reader find interesting software or problems from my contribution list.
Rust work
Maintainance tasks:
- Introduce Github Actions for my gladis and gtk_liststore_item Rust crates;
- Adapt the last two crates to work with the gtk 0.14.0 crate release; and
- Release them on crates.io.
After fixing these GTK Rust crates, I stumbled upon the new glade-bindgen crate. This crate pushes the concept of gladis further: it automatically generate structs containing all of the Gtk widgets, from the source *.ui files.
This approach is even more attractive than the gladis approach I took some time ago. It would be nice for this crate to reach a certain level of maturity. To this intent, I have proposed two (now merged) pull-requests to this crate:
Next contributions I would like to make is to make the README a little bit sexier, as well as applying the rustfmt automatic formating tool on the autogenerated *.ui.rs files.
Debian work
Debian has been in the freeze state for quite some time now. No new packages allowed. The NEW queue is filling up. This is the reason why I did not spend time creating or improving new packages for now.
Now that the Full Freeze has been announced, I may start to look back at contributing. At least push all of my waiting packages into testing.
I am also somewhat interested in finishing the packaging of the opentracker software (discussion started in 2012!). I use it extensively, but was surprised that it was not available in the Debian archive.