Joey Hess posted a draft of a code_swarm video for d-i a couple of weeks ago, which reminded me that I’ve been meaning to do something similar for Ubuntu for a while now as it’s just about our archive’s fifth birthday. I have a more or less …
I’ve been a bit surprised by the strong positive response to my previous post. People generally seemed to think it was quite non-ranty; maybe I should clean the rust off my flamethrower. :-) My hope was that I’d be able to persuade people to change some practices, so I …
I hate to say this, but often when somebody does lots of bug triage on a package I work on, I find it to be a net loss for me. I end up having to go through all the things that were changed, correct a bunch of them, occasionally pacify …
A while back, the BBC approached Canonical about providing seamless access to unencumbered BBC content for all Ubuntu users (in the UK and elsewhere). We agreed to approach this by way of a plugin for our primary media player, Totem, and asked Collabora Multimedia to do the plugin development work …
Ubuntu’s live CD installer, Ubiquity, needs to suppress desktop automounting while it’s doing partitioning and generally messing about with mount points, otherwise its temporary mount points end up busy on unmount due to some smart-arse desktop component that decides to open a window for it.
To date, it …
I hacked together a little timesaver for developers this morning: omni
completion for Launchpad bugs in Vim’s debchangelog mode. To use it,
install vim 7.1-138+1ubuntu3 once it hits the mirrors, open up a
debian/changelog file, type “LP: #”, and hit Ctrl-X Ctrl-O. It’ll think
for a …
Hot on the heels of Joey’s tale of getting rid of base-config (the second stage of the installer) in Debian, we’ve now pretty much got rid of it in Ubuntu Dapper too. The upshot of this is that rather than asking a bunch of questions, installing the base …