Julio Merino

Software artist. Writer aficionado. Open source enthusiast. Runner. Father of two.
Currently: Senior Software Engineer at Google, New York City.

  • GSoC 2014 idea: Port FreeBSD's old-style tests to ATF

    Are you a student interested in contributing to a production-quality operating system by increasing its overall quality? If so, you have come to the right place! As you may already know, the Google Summer of Code 2014 program is on and FreeBSD has been accepted as a mentoring organization. As it so happens, I have a project idea that may sound interesting to you. During the last few months, we have been hard at work adding a standardized test suite to the FreeBSD upstream source tree as described in the TestSuite project page.

    March 12, 2014 · Continue reading (about 3 minutes) · Comments

  • How to merge multiple Git repositories into one

    Are you looking for a method to merge multiple Git repositories into a single one? If so, you have reached the right tutorial! Please bear with me for a second while I provide you with background information and introduce the subject of our experiments. We’ll get to the actual procedure soon and you will be able to apply it to any repository of your choice. In the Kyua project, and with the introduction of the kyua-atf-compat component in the Summer of 2012, I decided to create independent Git repositories for each component.

    February 15, 2014 · Continue reading (about 4 minutes) · Comments

  • Moving projects to GitHub

    For a couple of years or so, I have been hosting my open source projects in Google Code. The time to jump ship has come. The major reason for this move is that Google Code stopped supporting file downloads three weeks ago. This is unfortunate given that "binary" releases are a must for proper software distribution. Sure, I could use a third-party service like Bintray to offer the downloads, but I'd rather consolidate all project data in a single location.

    February 6, 2014 · Continue reading (about 2 minutes) · Comments

  • Killing the ATF deprecated tools code

    The time to kill the deprecated tools —atf-report and atf-run principally— from the upstream ATF distribution file has come. Unfortunately, this is not the trivial task that it may seem. But wait, "Why?" and "Why now?" Because NetBSD still relies on the deprecated tools to run its test suite, they cannot just be killed. Removing them from the upstream distribution, however, is actually a good change for both ATF and NetBSD.

    February 5, 2014 · Continue reading (about 5 minutes) · Comments

  • FreeBSD Test Suite tutorial at AsiaBSDCon 2014

    I am pleased to announce that the tutorial on the FreeBSD Test Suite that I proposed for AsiaBSDCon 2014 has been accepted! The conference website will soon include more details, but allow me to spoil your wait: Goals: Learn how to use the test suite, how it is internally organized and how new tests can be written. Stretch goal: Get attendees to contribute one or more tests to the project.

    January 8, 2014 · Continue reading (about 1 minute) · Comments

  • FreeBSD Test Suite goals and planning

    I was really impressed and delighted to see how popular my previous (and first) post on FreeBSD testing, titled Introducing the FreeBSD Test Suite, was. Looks like this project may be of great interest to developers and users out there (not unsurprisingly) so I'll try to keep you all up-to-date with any key developments. A first question that arises from the announcement is: where are the test suite and infrastructure headed?

    January 5, 2014 · Continue reading (about 2 minutes) · Comments

  • Header files: Series wrap-up

    Happy New Year! Let me welcome 2014 with a very simple post to wrap up the header files series as is customary so that you have all relevant links in a single place for future reference: Series introduction Multiple-inclusion protection Self-containment C++ ipp files Avoid C++ “using” directives Poor man’s replacement for modules Qualify your identifiers Poor compilation times in C++ As I mentioned a couple of posts ago, I am quite busy these days spending my limited free time on Kyua-related hacking, which means you should expect a less constant blogging pace.

    January 1, 2014 · Continue reading (about 1 minute) · Comments

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