My free software and open source activities of April 2020

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What has happened this month? In the meantime to read the previous report go here that was very busy.

This month I focused a lot on Mozilla Italia so there isn’t so much code.

GitHub

This month I opened 9 tickets and closed 3 https://github.com/issues?q=archived%3Afalse+author%3AMte90+sort%3Aupdated-desc+created%3A%3E%3D2020-04-01+updated%3A%3C%3D2020-04-30+is%3Aissue+

My projects

2 new articles in Italian:
- AnsaCheck quando le blockchain ci ricordano che sono fuffa
- Il fanatismo Open Source, umoristico
New project GBAATM-Rebirth
- This project took a lot of time for various reasons:
  - My first C++ project
  - Very legacy code that require a VM with XP and Microsoft Developer Studio 6
  - For testing require to use a GBA emulator to test the patched rom
  - Porting the original code to 0 warnings and crash with my very low C++ knowledge
  - It isn’t finished yet
New lpl-thumbnails-downloader.py version
- After some issues reported I improved a bit the algorithm that now support new ways on getting a game thumbnails

Book

About the book I started on gathering notes again but also reading what I written for the new edition to extend some thoughts.

Mozilla

In Mozilla Italia worked for the voting of the new logo and the discussions around it
Started some internal discussion about support.mozilla.org for Mozilla Italia
Prepared a talk about Firefox versions for Mozilla Italia
Helped on reviewing various pull requests for https://github.com/MozillaItalia/DeepSpeech-Italian-Model
Reviewing new website and worked on that http://mozillaitalia.github.io/ – https://github.com/MozillaItalia/mozillaitalia.github.io/
A lot of internal discussions about plans for Mozilla Italia
Started technical reviews of Italian MDN localization
I got a new mentee for the Reps program, Philippe
Helped on internal code reviews for https://github.com/mozilla/community-portal

WordPress

I worked on testing and reviewing various pull requests in VVV, also joining some internal discussions about internal steps.

Improved those pages on wordpress.org:

About the WPBP I released 2 new versions of the generator for bugfixes and improved the wiki page with other stuff after some discussions with some users.

A tiny gist to fix a problem with W3 Total Cache plugin and assets filenames: https://gist.github.com/Mte90/f54dd4d47571d54bc3ae76690020f14b.