[Fofredux-devel] introduction

[Katie B. <ka...@ho...>]

Hi!  I'm a bit late to the party, but I'm a new developer on
fofredux.  I've been a feedonfeeds user for a while, and like many
of you, I was impatient to see some development happen, so I
tinkered with my own installation while awaiting a fork of the
project, which I'm excited to see.  I've migrated several bugs and
feature requests from feedonfeeds to fofredux.

I understand there's going to be a freeze-test-release cycle coming
up for fofredux.  I hope someone's working on that issue with the
views being messed up until the user adds at least one category;
that one had me stymied when I first checked out fofredux.

One of the "customizations" I hacked on to my installation of
feedonfeeds was to add my own cookies in magpierss's
_fetch_remote_file() function, because I wanted LiveJournal to
recognize me and give me my friends' friends-locked-entry feed items 
in addition to the public ones.  I'd be interested in adding this 
sort of functionality in a less kludge-y and more generalized way, 
but I'm still looking into whether and how magpierss might support 
that.  

By way of introducing myself, I write and test embedded spacecraft
flight software by day.  I've been working on New Horizons, a
spacecraft bound for Pluto/Charon, for the past few years, and I'm
really excited for its launch next month.  By night, I help out with
LinuxChix, read, practice yoga, study Japanese, and spend far too
much time using feedonfeeds to check up on the 90+ feeds I've
subscribed to. :)  Lately, I've been getting into amateur radio,
particularly amateur radio satellite communication.

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Katie Bechtold         http://hoteldetective.org/
ke...@us...