Author Archives: Sid

v0.7 Release – Explaining the Split Bug

Posted on March 14, 2009 by Sid

As a part of one of my goals for this release I want to find a solution for a problem I have appropriately named the “split bug”. Let me explain what it is all about: Sometimes merge changsets are showing … Continue reading →

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v0.7 Release – The Scroll Bar Solution

Posted on March 13, 2009 by Sid

As a part of one of my goals for this release I want to find a solution to the pesky scroll bar problem. I explained the problem and my futile attempts to find a solution in my previous blog post. … Continue reading →

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v0.7 Release – The Scroll Bar Problem

Posted on March 13, 2009 by Sid

As a part of one of my goals for this release I want to find a solution to the pesky scroll bar problem. Let me explain: The Problem Basically, by default the pushlog only loads 10 entries, which doesn’t fill … Continue reading →

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v0.7Release – Retrieving the Total Number of Entries

Posted on March 12, 2009 by Sid

Earlier today I outlined the goals of my current release. One of the problems I was looking to fix was with the function, getMaxEntries(). The job of this function was to create an xmlHttpRequest() in order to retrieve the maximum … Continue reading →

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v0.7 Release Goals

Posted on March 12, 2009 by Sid

It’s time for another release for hgweb. I had thought about working on a new feature this release by I’ve decided to push that back to the next release. This time around I completely want to focus on one bug, … Continue reading →

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Using Gmail with hg’s Patchbomb Extension

Posted on February 24, 2009 by Sid

I recently created a patch for the Mercurial Project and in order to submit the patch I had to use hg’s patchbomb extension. Unfortuantely that requires me to have SMTP on my system. I didn’t have that so either I … Continue reading →

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v0.6 Release Complete

Posted on February 22, 2009 by Sid

I’m finally done with my v0.6 release. This time around I’ve managed to put out a total of 5 patches for 3 bugs. The patch fix for bug 445560 was minor but needed. The second patch was for the Mercurial Project … Continue reading →

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v0.6 Release – Removing the Page Navigation Links from Pushloghtml

Posted on February 21, 2009 by Sid

I’ve decided to remove the navigation links that appear at the top and the bottom of pushloghtml. This wasn’t part of my goals for this release but I’ve decided to add this at the last minute. The patch is for … Continue reading →

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v0.6 Release – Refactoring to Fix the Bitrotting Issue with Bug 459727

Posted on February 21, 2009 by Sid

I had mentioned in my previous blog post that hgpoller/pushlog-feed.py had bitrotted. One of my goals for this release was to make changes to the current version of pushlog-feed.py so that my patch is no longer broken for bug 459727. I’ve finally … Continue reading →

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v0.6 Release – Examining the Changes with hgpoller/pushlog-feed.py

Posted on February 20, 2009 by Sid

I had mentioned in my v0.6 goals blog post that my patch for bug 459727 had bitrotted. Unfortunately significant changes were made to hgpoller which apparently broke my patch. I need to remedy this situation because all my server side functionality for … Continue reading →

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