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title: I will be speaking at FOSDEM
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- jenkins
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- fosdem
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- puppet
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- conference
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This upcoming February I will be making the trip to the bitterly cold
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cobblestoned streets of Brussels, Belgium for [FOSDEM
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2012](http://fosdem.org/2012/), one of the most fantastic open source
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conferences of the entire year.
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I've been to FOSDEM once before, but as a timid young lad who barely spoke to
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anybody. I distinctly recall walking down a hallway past [Theo de Raadt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo_de_Raadt)
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thinking "ZOMG IT'S THEO" then in the most sauve fashion, I turned around and
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walked back down the hallway in the opposite direction making sure I got a good look at Theo.
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What a damn nerd.
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This year will be something special in that I will be speaking in the
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[Configuration Management Devroom](http://fosdem.puppetlabs.com/) on the
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subject: "*Open Source Infrastructure - Running the Jenkins project with Puppet and
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more*.
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If you're not familiar with the structure of FOSDEM, there are a two main
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tracks which are held in amphitheaters which can hold hundreds of people at a
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time. The only one of these I remember from my last visit was watching a talk
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by [Alan Cox](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Cox), to give you an idea of
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the scale of those sessions.
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Concurrent to the main tracks there are a number of topic-oriented "devrooms"
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where developers of common interests (Mono, MySQL, Open source virtualization,
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etc) congregate for talks, panels, etc.
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My talk is structured as a hybrid technical/case study talk, the abstract of
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which is below:
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> In early 2011 the Jenkins project became the Jenkins project, leaving behind an
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> organically grown but Oracle (formerly Sun) operated infrastructure. An open
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> source project with thousands of users had to grow an infrastructure
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> practically overnight, initially doing things "the wrong way" by hand crafting
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> machines. That was until a costly mistake forced us to reconsider and migrate
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> to managing our infrastructure with Puppet from a publicly available shared Git
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> repository.
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> Besides Puppet, the Jenkins project also uses a number of other tools to help
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> manage access control on GitHub, parts of JIRA, etc, all carrying on the very
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> transparent and welcoming tradition the project prides itself on.
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> In this talk I will discuss the ups and downs of switching an established
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> infrastructure to Puppet, all within the public eye and with volunteer time and
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> energy.
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If you're in Europe next February, I highly recommend making the pilgramage to
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FOSDEM, and be sure to come up and say "hi!" I promise I don't bite.
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title: Identi.ca is dead to me
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- opinion
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- identica
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- microblogging
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- twitter
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There was a time when I was a big fan and user of open source microblogging
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site [Identi.ca](http://identi.ca). I regret ot inform you that this time has
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passed and I can no longer in good conscience support the platform.
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Identi.ca has always had issues, to be expected of an open source web property,
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there are bound to some rough edges running around. Things took a turn for hte
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worse when the team decided to [perform a major
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upgrade](http://status.net/2011/09/15/upgrading-identi-ca-and-other-statusnet-cloud-sites-to-1-0-0rc1)
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which took the site offline for an entire weekend. The major upgrade in
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mid-September introduced a number of issues:
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* Entirely new UI which improved things in some areas (more AJAX) but
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introduced whole new UX flows, heavily padded rounded UI elements and new
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hiding places for elements (Groups) that I used to use heavily (why the
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christ would you put the Groups that I **admin** behind three clicks and not
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have them in the stupid sidebar? Idiocy).
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* Took the XMPP bot offline for interacting with Identi.ca. This was often the
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*only* way I interacted with the site!
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* [Data integrity
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issues](http://status.net/2011/10/28/big-loss-of-data-on-identi-ca)
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* A [number](http://status.net/2011/12/20/identi-ca-down-update-not-any-more)
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of [stability
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issues](http://status.net/2011/12/02/unscheduled-downtime-for-identi-ca) and
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[bugs](http://status.net/2011/11/05/overview-of-technical-problems-with-identi-ca)
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I would go on, but my mouth is already foaming at an unhealthy rate so I better
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stop before I get kicked out of this coffee shop.
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Anyways, it is of my opinion that the folks behind made a classic blunder: the
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major re-write (joining Netscape 5, Perl 6, Python 3, and numerous other
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over-promising projects that falter in the "real world"). Eschewing the
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evolutionary approach to a project means large changes in data structure or
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user experience can and will be made before anybody has seen them operate with
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"real world" data and users.
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I'm not sure where this leaves me with regards to using Identi.ca, I want to
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like the site so badly but every tiem I've tried to use it in the past three
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months I end up terribly frustrated.
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*Extra bonus rant:* If you ever try to use the mobile site, you'll have a taste
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of how silly Identi.ca can be sometimes. If the site doesn't detect that your
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browser is mobile (which happens on every device for me), then you have to load
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the full non-mobile home page, at the bottom of which is a "Switch to mobile
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desktop layout" link. The link doesn't have an href, it uses **fucking
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JavaScript**, clicking this link will reload the page with a special
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mobile cookie set. There is no `m.identi.ca` site at all.
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To use Identi.ca from a mobile browser: your browser must run JavaScripts, you
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must load the full non-mobile document, click that link, set the cookie then
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hope that your browser keeps that cookie around forever.
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Uh oh, my mouth is foaming up again, better stop here.
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