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title: Status Update - Fall Semester
date: 2021-12-17
series:
    - status
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## Preface
Hello all! Welcome back to another status update! I realized recently that I 
haven't been all that good about making monthly status updates, so I think for
at least the rest of this academic year I'll be making termly status updates, 
so one every 7 weeks. Hopefully this will lead to longer status updates with 
more content.

Now, on to the Fall Semester status update!

## Status update
As I write this, it's a day after my last final exams, and I'm sitting in the
campus library on my service desk shift. Much of my open source contributions
this semester have been to the [LNLDB](https://github.com/WPI-LNL/lnldb), which
handles events, membership, and a whole bunch of other stuff for WPI Lens and
Lights. That's a Django codebase, and I've contributed a few features:

- Pronoun Support
  - Allowed members to provide their personal pronouns on their profile pages
- Email resources for new Crew Chiefs
  - When a member is assigned as a Crew Chief for the first time, send some
    extra resources in the email

I also have some pull requests pending review:
  
- Position postings
  - Lets executive board members post leadership roles to the active members
- Cropping Officer photos
  - Officer photos are currently inconsistently cropped, this lets them resize
    as needed

With the transition to college, among other things, I haven't had the time to 
do much else. I started to work on adding a tag for GPG-signed commits to 
git.sr.ht, but that hasn't gone anywhere.

Speaking of git.sr.ht...

## New code location
I've deployed a production [sourcehut](https://sourcehut.org) instance to a new
server, available at https://git.carathe.dev. I'm waiting on WPI ITS to unblock 
that domain, but it shouldn't be too long. I've already thrown things up there,
and that's where I'll put personal projects.

That's all for this semester! Happy holidays, and see you in the new year :)