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First impression of the scmsync workflow of OpenBuildService

2025-06-08T00:00:00+00:00

Also called the Git workflow, I am quite confused of how the process works. There is a guide</a> and even following it, I am more confused than before since there are missing pieces and information about this workflow even though each step looks "straight-forward".</p>

Honestly, I don't have issues if this new git workflow was communicated well to volunteers and packagers, alike. I actually see potential in it but I also see potential problems with it assuming this will become the main workflow in the future.</p>

Firstly, the lack of information on what Git config to have. When I tried it for the first time, Git LFS needs to be enabled. What's interesting is Git LFS by nature is slow as indexing and tracking large files can really slow down uploads and downloads of package sources. As a volunteer living in the Philippines, in a city with at least "okay-ish" internet, it took me at least 30 minutes</em></strong> to download the LFS "objects" for the vendored tarball for rusty v8.</p>

Secondly, after I was able to push the Git sources to my fork, I performed a PR but here are other things that got me confused.</p>

There are two git branches, devel</code> vs factory</code> inhttps://src.opensuse.org/javascript/rusty_v8</a>.</li>
As mentioned in the guide, you have to make a PR to the factory</code> branch. But isn't the point of devel</code> in the old workflow to attempt building the project before pushing it to Factory as part of the checks?</li>
The scm-staging-bot</strong> was not present even after the PR was approved.</li> </ol> Lastly, there should be some form of CI but maybe the build runs on OBS through the scm-staging-bot</strong> 😕. But there was none present.</p> The new workflow is such a blocker because, for example, as of writing, there is a need to update deno</a> as mentioned in here</a>. Knowing that, I also searched and found that there were some that shared my frustration or confusion with the move to git workflow in here</a>.</p> Overall, this is still a developing issue, so I might update this post after some things are cleared up? Yeah...</p>

Change of plans and priorities 2023-09-26T00:00:00+00:00 As my selection of what to learn grows, I think there will be a change of plans and priorities. It's time to narrow down what is essential.</p> Currently, I am learning Rust, and will do some Go. This added more and more of my to-do list of learning things.</p> And it became unproductive§</a > </h1> My attention span on learning stuff were getting lower and lower to a point, I need to reassess which and which are not to learn.</p> Here are the list of things I need to do</p> Setting aside System Administration</li> Setting aside Kanidm</li> Setting aside Crystal</li> </ul> They're really not set aside. I can go back to them in the future if I have the time.</p> Crystal is good, why not keep it?§</a > </h2> Sadly, only a few companies I know use Crystal. 😥 Even though it's actually a more useful language to learn and can replace Go.</p> Now what should I learn§</a > </h1> Rust will always stay. Erlang will stay. Go is added. Python will be revisited. And one database? I'm planning to at least learn one but never got the chance to. Possibly, Postgres or MySQL.</p> Why Erlang?§</a > </h2> Concurrency. Also, some of Go's ideas are taken from Erlang so I also need to check those as well.</p> Why Python?§</a > </h2> It's not hard to relearn. I just need to revisit it. It's good for scripts and prototyping.</p> Why Rust?§</a > </h2> Because blazingly 🚀🚀🚀 fast 😜</p> What now?§</a > </h1> Yes. I am going to watch Learn Go in 3 hours from a Humble Bundle I got last year. And then read Thorsten Ball's Writing an Interpreter in Go. I will check out Erlang's language reference too ☺️</p> First impressions on my first non-Google email provider 2023-09-19T00:00:00+00:00 I was planning last year that I will have to start looking for ways to avoid Google as much as possible or at least minimize my dependence on Google services. It's most likely the latter</em>.</p> On September 18, 2023§</a > </h1> I finally switched to a new email provider called Mailbox</a>. I have little information about the company but it seems it's well known from various tech people I met.</p> First impressions§</a > </h1> When I went to their website, it looks so clean and green like the "green energy" message they have on their landing page.</p> </p> But sadly, when I bought for their services, I was not really impressed by their web client. It was... uncared for? I am not sure why the landing page looks so cool but the placement for their settings is so weird. Here are a list of screenshots so you would understand what I mean.</p> </p> Another nitpick is the inconsistency of the tooltip. It should show the tooltip when the selection happens</em> and NOT after you are centered on the button</em>.</p> </p> Also, when clicking settings, I have to click... twice</em>? One for the gear icon, which will create two options as a drop-down; one for settings, and one for "connect your device". That's the weirdest way to navigate to settings. It's subtle but it's such a huge</strong> inconsistency. Kind of a missed opportunity.</p> </p> Then what?§</a > </h2> For other stuff, it was alright. But it feels so dated. It's good since it's light I am fine with that. I just don't know why the placement/behavior of the buttons/settings are all over the place. Maybe I am wrong? If anyone reading this is a front-end designer or specializes in UI/UX, please tell me if I am wrong.</p> Services§</a > </h1> Well enough of the UI, how about their services?</p> So I bought the 9EUR per month monthly plan</em> which amounts to 545.74PHP—Premium Plan</strong></em>:</p> Mail Storage of 25GB</li> Cloud Storage of 50GB</li> 25 Mail aliases</li> Allows 250 aliases for custom domains</li> Gets more support Online office</li> Priority & phone</li> </ul> </li> </ul> Sounds great? To be honest, I bought this plan because I want to try the most expensive offering.</p> But it's too early to tell so I will try this for a year and get the yearly plan. So I will get a month using the monthly plan and once for the yearly plan; a total of 13 months. Unlucky!</p> I will be going to skip a bit of the features since I haven't got used to it yet. But one thing that interests me to use more and more is the DavFS/WebDav feature. Although, their documentation was not really accurate nor informative about it. Yes, they have a documentation but what I mean is, it feels rushed.</p> Other features are mentioned in https://mailbox.org/en/private-customers#price-plans.</p> Overall§</a > </h1> Again, it's too early to say anything. But one thing I already did is "forwarding" all my emails from my previous Gmail account to my new mailbox email addresses and aliases. And I already copied almost all of my old inboxes to my new inboxes.</p> Other considerations§</a > </h1> I was eyeing for Fastmail</a> since</p> It's recommended by my mentor (bias)</li> It's in Aussieland, so it's closer. And also the only email service near southeast asia because Asia seems to have no email service company. Kind of makes sense, but I will keep it to myself</em> 😛</li> Has more enticing offerings and features. At the same price, you get 100GB and 600+ aliases.</li> Probably has a better UI for their web client. Their website says it all.</li> </ol> For now, I will be using this for a year.</p>