Working up on Dorrie

For some time now, I started working up on Dorrie. Dorrie is a web application which enables users to build a Fedora/Spin.It is a Free Software licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3 or later and written using Django/Python.

After successfully downloading and deploying Dorrie from GitHub, I found out that it was showing an error “invalid arguments to setopt” in the /basic/ page. So after googling for few minutes I came to know the error was arising because setopt was receving uni-code as the argument in place of string So, after the modification of the code, I sent the patch upstream. Later, Shrink, rtnpro and I were discussing on Dorrie so rtnpro came up with the idea of making the code modular and dividing the codes in files based on type of settings. He also told of introducing django-addons into Dorrie as it adding a true plug-n-play functionality to our own Django applications and he assigned me the job. Since, it had been quite sometime I had worked on Git, I had forgotten some of the commands so I had to google the commands again and write out the patch. I sent out the patch upstream the following day. Here is my Dorrie clone on GitHub.

Hacking a level deeper into Transifex

Last week, I started working on the ticket #789 which reported that there should be support for the xliff files with .xml extension. As it was an easy patch with few edits in the configuration file and tests I submitted the patch to upstream for review and they accepted it.
After that rtnpro directed /me to work on the ticket #673 which reported that there should be a RSS Feed for the project timeline. As I had already worked with RSS Feed in ASKBOT so I had a prior knowledge about the topic. But I went through the topic once again more deeply and got to a lot more things. It took sometime due the festive season in between but submitted the patch for review as soon as possible and got it accepted.
After that I started off ticket #578 but could not complete it as I found that there was a bug in the /project/add/ page which raised the NoReverseMatch exception so I reported this to rtnpro and started working on it and found some more bugs and a typo and finally resolved it altogether and submitted the patch. I also sent a patch regarding a bug in the Manage tab which was losing it’s selection after the sub menu item was pressed.

contributing to Transifex

For some time now, after my exams got over I started hanging going through the source code of Transifex. After some time, I contacted rtnpro and he directed me to work on the ticket #808.
The ticket #808 reported that searching should be made possible not only in the source text but also in the translations.So, I had to go through Complex lookups with Q objects in order to write the patch. I submitted patch upstream for review and got it accepted.:)