From ac2da684f889461d76ed099eaf2d5afbec2fc5ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hess Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 21:36:14 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] blog for the day --- .../blog/day_279__final_release_prep.mdwn | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/design/assistant/blog/day_279__final_release_prep.mdwn diff --git a/doc/design/assistant/blog/day_279__final_release_prep.mdwn b/doc/design/assistant/blog/day_279__final_release_prep.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..8028d3a79d --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/design/assistant/blog/day_279__final_release_prep.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +Landed two final changes before the release.. + +First, made git-annex detect if any of the several long-running git process +it talks to have died, and restart them. My stress test is reliably able to +get at least `git cat-file` to crash, and while I don't know why (and +obviously should follow up by getting a core dump and stack trace of it), +the assistant needs to deal with this to be robust. + +Secondly, wrote rather a lot of java code to better open the web browser +when the Android app is started. A thread listens for urls to be written to +a fifo. Creating a fifo from fortran^Wjava code is .. interesting. Glad to +see the back of the `am` command; it did me no favors. + +AFK