Mohit Sethi mohitsethi

Gerrit vs Github: for code review and codebase management

Sure, Github wins on the UI. Hands down. But, despite my initial annoyance with Gerrit when I first started using it almost a year ago, I am now a convert. Fully. Let me tell you why.

Note: This is an opinionated (on purpose) piece. I assume your preferences are like mine on certain ideas, such as:

Fast-forward submits to the target branch are better than allowing merge commits to the target branch. The reason I personally prefer this is that, even if a non-conflicting merge to the target branch is possible, the fact that the review/pull request is not up to date with the latest on the target branch means feature branch test suite runs in the CI pipeline reporting on the review/PR may not be accurate. Another minor point is that forced merge commits are annoying as fuck (opinion) and clutter up Git log histories unnecessarily and I prefer clean histories.
Atomic/related changes all in one commit is something worth striving for. Having your dev

Chef Metal, Configuration and Drivers

As Chef Metal approaches 1.0, we've landed a huge configuration and driver interface improvement intended to enable:

A standard way to specify credentials and keys that keeps them out of recipes and allows them to be used in multiple places
External commands (like "metal execute") that can look up information and manage a node independent of the original Metal recipe
Environmental and directory-specific configuration
Make the drivers easily usable in test-kitchen and knife

Herein I want to talk about the Driver interface and how it is used by provisioning programs like the machine resource or kitchen, and driver implementors.

This project has moved to a GitHub repository:

https://github.com/hwdsl2/setup-ghost-blog

Running Docker on two hosts, bridged with Open vSwitch

This Gist shows how to use Open vSwitch to bridge Docker containers on two hosts. It is based on this blog post http://goldmann.pl/blog/2014/01/21/connecting-docker-containers-on-multiple-hosts/.

A similar Gist using Tinc instead of Open vSwitch is available: https://gist.github.com/noteed/11031504.

Setup

5 entertaining things you can find with the GitHub Search API

Let's have some command-line fun with curl, [jq][1], and the [new GitHub Search API][2].

Today we're looking for:

The hottest repositories created in the last week.
The oldest user accounts with zero followers. (So sad.)
Issue trends by language.
Clojure projects defying convention.

The program below can take one or more plain text files as input. It works with python2 and python3.

Let's say we have two files that may contain email addresses:

file_a.txt

foo bar
ok ideler.dennis@gmail.com sup
 hey...user+123@example.com,wyd
hello world!

	#!/bin/bash

	set -e

	if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
	echo "USAGE: $0 plugin1 plugin2 ..."
	exit 1
	fi

	plugin_dir=/var/lib/jenkins/plugins

	apply plugin: "java"
	apply plugin: "eclipse"
	apply plugin: "maven"
	apply plugin: "findbugs"
	apply plugin: "pmd"

	def defaultEncoding = 'UTF-8'
	[compileJava, compileTestJava].options.encoding = defaultEncoding

	sourceCompatibility = 1.7

	# BOOTSTRAP COMMANDS
	alias kb="knife bootstrap"
	# alias k="knife bootstrap windows ssh FQDN
	# alias k="knife bootstrap windows winrm FQDN

	# CLIENT COMMANDS
	alias kbdc="knife client bulk delete"
	alias kcc="knife client create --editor /usr/bin/sublime"
	alias kdc="knife client delete"
	alias kec="knife client edit"

	#!/usr/bin/env python
	#
	# Very basic example of using Python and IMAP to iterate over emails in a
	# gmail folder/label. This code is released into the public domain.
	#
	# RKI July 2013
	# http://www.voidynullness.net/blog/2013/07/25/gmail-email-with-python-via-imap/
	#
	import sys
	import imaplib