Contributing Advent 7: Snapshots
Today we look at a non-code contribution. The PHP project makes snapshots of the current state of the Git repository available through http://snaps.php.net. There is a two hourly cronjob that goes over all the active branches and then builds a .tar.gz, a .tar.bz2 and an .xv bundle.
After the recent branching of PHP 5.6 the snapshots started failing. I have always been involved with making the snapshots work so I had a look to see what was wrong.
I discovered that "somebody" had use the root account to try to fix/change/update things, but the snapshots are build under a different uses, the snapbuilder user. With some file now having been updated by root, the snapbuilder user was unable to read and/or write to those files anymore, resulting in broken snapshots.
I also discovered that the directory that contains the master branch of the code was missing altogether. I can't explain how that happened, but I restored it by cloning a new version from the Git repository. A similar thing I did for the PHP 5.6 branch so that we now also have snapshots for that branch.
Life Line
Updated 3 restaurants
I walked 3.1km in 29m25s
I walked 4.4km in 45m01s
I walked 5.4km in 55m28s
Updated a restaurant; Confirmed a hotel
I walked 6.3km in 1h12m59s
Paraphrasing opening keynote speaker at ConFoo: "Should we go back to the waterfall method of writing massive specs upfront to feed to AI coding agents?"
I walked 1.6km in 17m29s
I walked 2.1km in 17m44s
Updated a pub
I walked 2.6km in 26m41s
Merged pull request #1065
Comparison whether class is userland or internal used the wrong macro
PHP 8.6: zend_enum.h now mixes code with declarations
PHP 8.6: Argument names are now stored as zend_strings
Updated a bench and a waste_basket
I walked 8.3km in 1h25m37s
Created a recycling
I walked 10.5km in 1h46m57s
An interesting journey in story form, showing how English changed over time.
https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english
A much better writer than I is summing up perfectly why I have such disdain for Generative AI/LLMs.
https://jonn.substack.com/p/so-why-do-i-feel-so-angry-about-this
Created a waste_basket; Updated a waste_basket; Deleted a bench
Created a bench; Updated 7 benches and a gate; Deleted 2 benches and a gate
Created 10 benches and 2 waste_baskets; Updated an information
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