As you may know, I was participating in this year Gerrit User Summit, 15th-16th November 2018 in Palo Alto, CA. I gave two talks: Bazel build gerrit: New and Noteworthy about optimizing Gerrit Bu...
As you may know i was participating in this year Gerrit User Summit, 12th-13th November 2016, followed by Developer Hackathon in Mountain View, CA. There were plenty of great talks, including EMa...
https://ostrovsky.org/gerrit-user-summit-2016-mountain-view-ca/
In September 2016, I attended 5 days Gerrit developer hackathon, in Walldorf, SAP. As always it was a big pleasure to meet SAP Git/Gerrit hackers in person: Sasa, Matthias, Michael and Chris. I f...
As you may know i was participating in this year Gerrit User Summit, 21-26 March, followed by Developer Hackathon in Mountain View, CA. I had three presentations: Gerrit@LibreOffice with detailed...
https://ostrovsky.org/gerrit-user-summitconference-in-mountain-view-ca/
OpenSuSE 13.1 was released on November 2013, so i am late to upgrade my W530 Laptop. The main reason to upgrade is to make Intel’s on board card and NVIDIA’s card work in Optimus Modus. For t...
Last week Gerrit Code Review version 2.8 GA was released. It is a major release and devs have spent 8 months and two Hackathons in London and Boulder to release it. The highlights are: Secondary ...
Why are we using open source software? Well that’s a rhetoric question and i am sure you come up with many reasons for that, just to name few: Freedom Quality Security Try it first Community An...
https://ostrovsky.org/main-reason-to-use-open-source-software-customizability/
During my work on migration from dmake to gnu make (gbuildification) of expat module i discovered some innocent looking lines in the old dmake based make file: So what is BUILD_X64 here and when ...
https://ostrovsky.org/gbildify-expat-module-and-test-it-on-windows/
Some history first First time i compiled LibreOffice (LO) in march 2012, it failed to compile in the seamonkey (moz) module (i didn’t enable it explicitly). I had many questions about moz inte...
As you may know, LibreOffice undergoes currently migration to code review system gerrit. In his post to dev ML Why Gerrit and other consideration Norbert Thiebaud explained the objectives which t...
https://ostrovsky.org/how-gerrit-fits-in-libreoffice-ci-infrastructure/