Plethora of Projects

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This is definitely my highest priority project. It has the most users and with my friend Eric Holscher leaving on a long hike soon I’ll be the primary caretaker of the project. I have various issues to work architecturally which are moderately boring or security related but will be taking some of my development time on this project.

I’ve already started into one of my bigger goals which is to clean up the code base. The files to all comply to flake8 which is a step in the right direction. Next I will be cleaning things up so the project is closer to what I am used at work, which also gives us a style guide we can simply just cite.

Another goal is to change out the log in system to Mozilla Persona and eliminate the need for passwords. This, along with some other architecture fixes will make the platform a bit safer.

ZenIRCBot

This project has been gathering more users as well as contributors. Unfortunately it has been sitting there bitrotting (from my standpoint) due to being too busy for it. I am going to be trying to take over part of the May PDXNode hack night as a ZenIRCBot hack night.

This code base is also in dire need of a cleanup. We have 3.0 coming out soon, along with that I’m also going to be moving it under an org and splitting out various parts into their own repos under that org. Once that is done, I’ll be adding the backwards compatible changes like multiple server support. The nodejs version will be the blessed version and I’ll try to keep the python and clojure versions up to date but I don’t want to let them hold back the bot.

Finally, I’ve already added Aaron Parecki as a contributor and we’ll be code reviewing each other’s patches as well as sharing the burden of accepting pull requests and such.

pytmux

This is a newer project that is currently in a working state but I’d like finish some features so can release 1.0 and leave the project in a stable state.

The next steps for this are some more of the basic features (which are already filed as issues on github) as well as taking some time looking at the other projects in this space and determine what a 1.0 release should look like. This should be a minimal amount of hacking and should result in something that doesn’t require much maintenance.

hackspots.net

This project hasn’t even started other than gathering data. There is lots of hope in it though, and I really want it to exist. It has a lot of potential for those of us in town to discover new places to go, and to provide a place to send people who are new to town.

The project needs to be inited, in an effort to not polarize to one of the two bigger server side web languages (Python/Ruby) I’ll likely be going with nodejs. Theoretically there is a code base that was already started but it isn’t open source yet and rather than wait/force it to go open, I can just build it myself.

Django Debug Panel

This project has wonderful potential and high aspirations. Unfortunately it is also quite a bit of work. I have lots of prior art to sort through, issues to create, then finally I have to build it and document the protocol. This project is on the back burner for now until I can clear some other things off my plate.

training.wraithan.net

This one is in fact just throwing a 500 right now. I upgraded some stuff and it is all broken. As I get ready to do more century rides this summer I will want to have this around. Also I’d like to add integration for more than just DailyMile. There isn’t a ton of work to do, other than getting it working again.

Summary

I have a lot of projects to work on, some of which are higher priority than others. I am feeling rather overwhelmed when you combine this list with my hobbies, work, and other obligations. Hopefully, if you are using any of these projects, you’ll be patient with me as I try to find the time to improve them all.