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My FOSS contributions and rants on Feb-April 2021

Sun, 18 Apr 2021 15:18:00 +0800

My rants and contributions to FOSS in Feb - April 2021

Involve with Debian and joined Debian Med teams, thank you Andreas Tille.
I intend to help Steffen Möller to package python-scanpy by fixing blocker and I end up packaging it missing dependencies which are python-sinfo and python-stdlib-list . Many thanks to who teach me how to packaging and Nilesh Patra for sponsoring me. The work on scanpy still unfinished, there is still leftover to do. WIP.
At same time I also send another ITP for python-scanorama, it working but the unit test asking for another missing package called as annoy from spotify and fbcpa from facebook.
Both missing package I able to rebuild locally but I not sending ITP yet. I send a request to Debian Python Team to join them and place both of this package under it.
I still contribute to Fedora as QA and few stuff. Another point, recently (actually few month ago but nvm, just put here), Izhar aka Kagesenshi get highsugar and re-activate the local community (Fedora Malaysia) via discord. He also setup a new team called Fedora Data Engineering SIG
After a while using and involve (contribute) with Fedora for fews years, I sometimes get a feel that Fedora and Red Hat moving so fast on everything and feel it not community oriented it more like leader oriented, take a look on something worth called as “flamewar” on Fedora-devel list which debate on changes on os-release.. check the Wiki here

There is few’s more contribution but I not keep track it properly, will update when I remember it 🤪

Fedora - koji kernel regression testing

Thu, 31 Dec 2020 08:45:00 +0000

I will show how to get latest kernel from Koji for testing purpose. For your infomation, Koji build packages take times to appear on updates-testing repository.

The faster way to get latest kernel the is manually download from Koji. As example here, on this blog post I will show how I will load kernel kernel-5.10.4-200 to my Fedora 33 Workstation.

Firstly check the latest success build kernel here

For example, I will use this build

Fedora rawhide + everything : bare-bones minimal KDE

Mon, 05 Oct 2020 01:12:00 +0000

The goal of this articles is how to get a bare-bones KDE desktop from Fedora rawhide everything installer. I’d welcome any suggestions and comments to improve it.

Let me remind before we proceed, Fedora rawhide is pre-release / testing / master / current development / rolling version of Fedora. Please read here for more details. If you are novice and not advance user, please don’t follow this tutorial, it not stable and “new unreport wild bugs” may appears and you will have problem to troubleshoot.

Use this - My favorite tools

Thu, 30 Jul 2020 15:54:23 +0800

Assalamualaikum and hello everyone,

I plan to create some blog post section called Use This. Yeah, I gonna post about what software, tools, script that I use. It just my own personal preferences of choices and I just recommend what I am use.

Maybe this kind of blog post will be useful and I also can jot down my settings and tweaks for everyone and my future references.

It will be cross platform, so Windows and Linux will be listed together. No worries. I will covers opensource, free and commercial software. Each post will hold only just one tools. Not just like regular “use this” interview that put all they favourite into one posts.