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Compiled a new patch for subversion according to what came out of Greg's (gstein) and my discussion yesterday. Looks like this one is going through ;)

A few days ago I wrote an email to the ZDP (Zope Documentation Project) list saying that we should teach Zope newbies more ZPT instead of DTML. The reason for this email was that I experienced many DTML related questions by newbies in the #zope freenode irc channel. ChrisMcDonough and I had a little thread (threat?) over the past few days and discussed where the problem lies and what needs to be done. As it turns out, I volunteered (damnit, it happened again!) to work over the Zope tutorial which hasn't been touched for decades (well, if you round it up ;)). Let's see whether I actually find the time to do that.

Otherwise I started armageddon on my bank account today:

• bought new Shimano Deore brakes
• bought new Continental 2.3" tires
• bought a 30 liter back pack which is specially designed for long bike tours
• bought a rack and a bag that goes with it to be mounted on the seat post
• ordered a seat post with shocks
• bought road maps for all eastern and southern Germany as well as northern Italy.

I'm almost ready to go and might leave next weekend. This is not certain, however.

Discussed my subversion patch with Greg Strein (gstein) and cmpilato on the Subversion devlist. It seems like we've found a solution with which all of us are satisfied. Now we just need to implement it ;).

More bike tour preparations:

• became a member of the Alpenverein (Alps club); their member card gives me discounts in huts.
• ordered six maps of the region in the Alps in question and a roadbook called TransAlp which describes numerous paths and passes suitable for crossing the alps with your mountain bike
• phoned several people in several cities on my route and asked whether I could stay with them for a night
• set up a ZWiki so I can write a diary when I'm on my bike tour and find an internet café (very unlikely at 2500m in the Alps, though ;))

Went jogging again in the evening.

Yesterday:

Merged changes from subversion trunk into my working copy, updated my patch and re-sent it to the mailinglist. Still waiting for a response, but it's weekend, so I'm not expecting anything before Monday.

Bought a ton of new bike-related stuff in the afternoon:

• gloves
• functional underwear
• shirts
• shorts

Then I went to see Fried play LaCrosse and qualify himself and his team for the German national championship. Fried's already playing for the German national team, so I expected nothing else. Plus, it was his birthday which we celebrated afterwards.

Today was just jogging in the morning, researching for more bike accessories and answering emails. Usual Sunday business.

Send a patch to the subversion dev list. When this patch is applied, SWIG will build shadow classes for the subversion bindings. Before you had to access C structs through accessor functions. The patch not only involved the make file and some SWIG .i files, but also some changes to the python scripts accompanying subversion. Wonder whether it will be accepted then...

Did more preparations for the bike tour:

• ordered a map of huts in the Alps
• bought new tires, tubes, brakes, a computer, pump, toolset; thank god for plastic money, otherwise I would have choked seeing how much money changed hands today...
• went shopping for a back pack and/or a bike bag; still can't decide what equipment do take and whether to just go with a back pack or not.

Federico emailed me that I was very welcome. He just thinks I'm crazy. Oh, yes I am.

Conrad, who served in the army the same as me and whom I met during skiing in Berchtesgaden this year, came to visit from Bayreuth. He graduated from Stanford last year and now he's staying over for the weekend to go to a (German) reunion which is held in Berlin tomorrow.