I’m doing too many projects. I need to step back from most of them ASAP. I just don’t want them to dwindle, but prosper…

I really need to find more contributors for

  • LaySVN, Layered Subversion, a svn mod written for storing the configuration of non-identical servers in SVN (read: servers that have some configuration parts in common, some differ) and probably of use for other cases.
    I’ve recently started a rewrite of LaySVN for speed reasons; you can’t work on a per-file base with SVN but need to plan ahead a lot
  • Pyroman, a firewall tool featuring a IMHO nice configuration language and which is very fast due to using iptables-restore, and it has rollback on errors
  • SSDDiff, a diff tool for XML which can handle complex cases very well. Some say it’s doing a “semantic” diff, actually. The “fast” (approximative) mode needs some love, the prototyp app IO needs to be redone (i.e. output filename parameters), XML attribute changes aren’t reported yet in all output formats. I’ve also done some nice HTML diffs with it, that could be made a separate HTMLdiff application.
  • Debtags central database needs to be rewritten to fit our newer requirements (e.g. moderation of edits or specific tags), and moved to a new server (old one still being woody)
  • musicsquirrel (unreleased), a PyGTK duplicate finding tool using TRM (“musicbrainz”) signatures, could need some magic like duplicate album detection (by “clustering”), and a UI to mass-select duplicates accoring to some rules (e.g. kill all duplicates found in the “unsorted” folder, if there is a properly tagged version in some other place)
  • SELinux-Basics, a package to help getting SELinux working, has some basic sanity check shell scripts for a fresh SELinux system. These should be rewritten in OOP fashion with python or so, and extended with some extra checks.
  • SELinux on Debian needs more adventurous people testing and using it, fixing policy to match Debian needs, writing new policy for new services, writing tons of documentation, doing some pretty install scripts and fixing some upstream bugs (module linking still not working). And making it as easy to use as AppArmor claims to be, because SELinux IS better and should be used instead.
  • ISL3893, a wireless AP chip with a linux-based SDK available, is finally receiving some development. Too bad I can’t devote any time to it. It would be cool to bring it up to par with famous OpenWRT.

Oh, and half of above projects need a fancy web design and an icon.

Anyway, I should basically turn off my computer for the next two months and refrain from going online. :-( I know that I won’t have the discipline to do so…

And there are oh so many projects still only existant in my head that I’d really love to do sometime. One involving new search technologies with tags, bringing together directories like DMoz, tag based stuff like del.icio.us and “traditional” text search engines. Definitely the stuff the Web 2.0 is made out of (read: hype). But when I’m done with my diploma this new dotcom bubble is probably over, too… :-(