Thu, 06 Nov 2008
wnpp-bg
I'm pleased to announce version 1 of wnpp-bg, a Python script for generating background images listing your currently open wnpp bugs. It is available either from bzr, as a tarball or as a Debian package.
wnpp-bg works by scraping a user's page on qa.debian.org (presumably your own), and finding the bugs listed under 'Owned WNPP bugs'. It pulls out the package names and creates an image from that list. You can pass in the geometry of your screen, as well as how large the blank borders around the image should be (to take account of, for example, gnome-panel).
wnpp-bg was inspired by Tim Retout, with whom I work, who manually generated such an image and had it set as his background. Naturally, I had to do one better, and this is the result. Hopefully people will find it useful. I suggest shoving it in a cron job, though probably not a fortnightly one.
Bug reports or feature requests should be sent to daniel@daniel-watkins.co.uk.
Posted: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:50 | | Comments: 0