I was entirely happy to happy to announce a new version of Tarmac, 0.3. In fact, I was so happy that I went again and immediately did another release of Tarmac, Tarmac 0.3.1. Tarmac 0.3.x series brings a whole slew of fixes, including fixing more than half of the bugs filed against Tarmac. In fact, there are no more bugs with a higher importance than Low currently (ideally, people use the software and find more for me to work on).

Tarmac is a tool for automatically landing branches that have been approved for merge through the Launchpad code review system. It uses the Launchpad API to find these branches, and has a variety of features to automate their merge and management.

Tarmac 0.3 is also a complete re-write of most of the system. Notably, this means that Tarmac can be used on branches that aren't the development focus. I'm sure this will make Ted Gould happy, but the real reason I did this was help in the managing of all those official source package branches on Launchpad.

The Plugin architecture has also been reworked a bit as well. Since I spent so much time writing documentation for Tarmac, I realized how icky it was to write plugins. If you have plugins from 0.2, you'll need to port them to 0.3. You'll also need to port your configuration to Tarmac 0.3.x, since the configuration has changed a bit.

The final big thing to notice is that Tarmac is getting entirely more entwined with bzrlib (because it's such an awesome library even outside of bzr) by stealing it's command code. Tarmac is only one script now, and the first argument is the actual command.

You can find Tarmac 0.3.1 here. I'm working on packaging it now (although I'm really slow packaging, mentoring desired).

In a nod to Michael Bernstein's F/OSS License App for Web App Wednesday, I threw together some code that does a similar thing for Launchpad. Things rolled downhill from there to do some other really fun things, but I thought I'd stop and blog about the first result before hacking on the rest of the data.

The above image is the result of this hacking. I used the Google Charts API to create the pie chart. It's obvious that GPLv2 is the most popular license, being that 35% of all Launchpad projects are licensed that way.

I'm pleased to announce the first version of bzr-autoreview, a Bazaar plugin for automating Launchpad merge proposal reviews.

The concept is simple. Go to your local mirror of a branch on Launchpad, and simply type bzr autoreview. The plugin will do the rest. It finds every merge proposal against your public branch that doesn't yet have a review, gives you an editor pre-populated with the diff, and then, after your review, allows you to also vote.

I have many planned features, but I've been trying this year to release code instead of just writing it. The code's a mess because I was spanning hemispheres while writing it. I plan on cleaning it up in the next few days and releasing again.

Please see the README. You can download the tarball or get the branch. If you're really ambitious, I'd appreciate any patches, so please see the HACKING file. A special thanks goes to Elliot for giving me the idea in the first place.