Category Archives: Mercurial Project

v0.4 Release – Better regexps for Creating bugLinks

Posted on January 17, 2009 by Sid

This is concerning bug 459727. As one of my goals for this release I wanted to create better regexps in order to match all possible bugLink patterns i.e. bug 123455, b=134566, 345777 or BUG 293455 To do this I came … Continue reading →

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v0.4 Release – Optimizing Client Side Code

Posted on January 17, 2009 by Sid

This is concerning bug 459727. As one of my goals for this release I’m trying to maintain/add functionality but reduce the amount of code. I started off by perusing the code in renderMorePushLogResults() found in the hg_templates/pushlog.tmpl file (see below). … Continue reading →

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v0.4 Release Goals

Posted on January 16, 2009 by Sid

The 0.4 release deadline is approaching fast (next week) and I thought it would be beneficial to come up with a list of goals that I will be attempting to complete. I will be applying further fixes to bug 445560. … Continue reading →

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A New Beginning

Posted on January 15, 2009 by Sid

I’m finally back from my month long vacation and a new semester at Seneca College has begun. I spent most of the holidays trying to take it easy and get some rest. It was a welcome change from the frenzied … Continue reading →

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Some Reflections on The Open Source Course

Posted on December 7, 2008 by Sid

Regular classes for this semester have finally come to an end which means that the open source course for this semester has also reached the finish line. This is the first time I’ve taken such a course. I think it … Continue reading →

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v0.3 Release Complete!

Posted on December 7, 2008 by Sid

My v0.3 release has finally come to an end along with the course. Throughout this release I have put out a total of 7 patches spread over 3 bugs and wrote 13 blog posts (not including this one). I have … Continue reading →

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Another Patch Approved, for bug 445560

Posted on December 5, 2008 by Sid

I’m happy to report that another patch of mine has been approved by ted! This is for bug 445560. For this patch I had to make some changes after I initially put up the patch but they weren’t major ones. … Continue reading →

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v0.3 Release – Improved bug link for bug 459727

Posted on December 4, 2008 by Sid

The pushlog has a buglink feature that changes a string that contains reference to a bug number into a link to that bug on BugZilla. This is done on the server side by hgpoller/buglink.py file. However, when loading more entries … Continue reading →

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v0.3 Release – Further Problems with Loading More Items, bug 459727

Posted on December 3, 2008 by Sid

I put up a couple of patches today to fix problems with an earlier patch I had submitted for bug 459727. It seems that my fix for the problem of the initial results not loading enough entries to fill up … Continue reading →

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v0.3 Release – Fixing the Problems with my Patch for bug 459727

Posted on December 3, 2008 by Sid

I’ve been busy trying to fix problems that had arised regarding the patch I submitted for bug 459727. All that is being done right now is fixing various small problems but the overall functionality remains the same. So the following … Continue reading →

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