This week started off a little bumpy with a power outage that lasted a few hours and then a freak thunder/hail storm on Monday. On Wednesday the boat (a server the FOSSBox uses) went down Wednesday, slowing down everything and taking down FossBot. Finally, after a series of issues with Glade, we have shelved the GUI for now and have decided to instead work on producing some quality videos to send to Red Hat.
As a part of these videos I want to highlight the work of Red Hat employees by making there avatars different than all of the other contributors. However, Gource handles custom avatars in a bit of a funky way. Each person that needs a custom avatar must have a copy of the picture saved in a directory with their full name, as it is in the logs, as the file name. I created a proof of concept image by manually going through a log and creating a new file for each user with a Red Hat email. A screen shot of that is attached, and I think it looks pretty nice. However, that is a cumbersome process and isn't practical for every project, especially as we get into projects with a lot of contributors. This week I started creating a program that will parse a custom log and create these files for every user with a particular email host in a file. Right now I am running into some issues with Unicode characters in some names, but I will get further into this when problems are solved.
Another exciting aspect of this week is that I (finally) got my Red Hat laptop unlocked! Having it unlocked will mean that we can render videos on that laptop while I am working on my own. It should save me from having down time and should increase the number of videos we can render. This also means I can now access my Red Hat email, which should save some communication headaches.
I have high hopes for the week to come. I am going to get the file creator working and start rendering some videos!
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