Evalicious

To the best of my understanding there is a little over a week before FeatureFreeze, so now would be as good a time as ever to put together an update on the status of migration-assistant. Continuing from my last post, it took a lot longer than I expected to get the Ubiquity code up and running. I had expected to have that, email account importing, and firefox bookmark importing all done by now, but I quickly ran out of time. Even now I’m tackling some minor bugs left in that portion of my code. I’m not going to under-estimate this one: it’s going to be a race to get everything I’d like to have checked in included before the cut off. I do however have a long weekend this weekend in which I intend to use for a few all-nighters and some days during the week where my course load and work schedule is light. It’ll be a race, but I intend on getting the job done and done right.

I actually have not been able to test my Ubiquity code outside of my chroot yet. VMWare seems to choke (or rather, my 512MB of RAM) on Ubiquity off the Knot-1 CD. It will just sit there for eternity after you press the next button on the welcome screen. If anyone has any suggestions beyond, “find a faster computer” which I’m going to try to locate tomorrow, I’m all ears. I’m trying to get that code working and stable as quickly as possible, because, in addition to the quickly approaching deadline, I’d really like to get back to coding import routines.

Since Summer of Code ‘06 is officially over, I can finally accept patches to the project. If you’re interested in contributing, or you’d just like to see what progress has been made thusfar, you can check out (bzr) migration-assistant and my Ubiquity branch and the following two repositories, respectively:

• http://www.evalicious.com/projects/migration-assistant
• http://www.evalicious.com/projects/ubiquity.ma

I really don’t mind constructive criticism, so if you find something in there that you think is terribly done, by all means tell me in the comments here or to evand on Freenode and I’ll do whatever I can to fix it.

As soon as I’m certain all of the components are working properly, namely Ubiquity, I’ll put an ISO image up on here for the truly lazy. Post Feature Freeze I’m going to throw together quite a few VMWare images and stress test this as much as possible with as many different configurations as possible. But again, for now anyway, my focus is on Ubiquity, Firefox, and Outlook/Evolution.

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