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How Ubuntu is Made (LinuxPlanet)
Over at LinuxPlanet, Sean Michael Kerner talks with Canonical CTO Matt Zimmerman about the tools and processes used to work with the globally distributed Canonical team. "While Zimmerman noted that he does get together face-to-face fairly regularly with his staff once a quarter, facilitating regular interaction requires a long list of common tools. For instance, Zimmerman said that Canonical engineers do a lot of work through IRC , wikis and teleconferences. The team also uses the open source Gobby tool for collaborative editing and Mumble for voice chatrooms.
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'Mumble is sort of like IRC for voice,' Zimmerman said. 'You have a set of channels and then people come and go from one channel to another and whatever channel you're in, there is live voice between the people that are in the room.'"
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How Ubuntu is Made (LinuxPlanet) Posted Sep 10, 2010 8:51 UTC (Fri) by colo (subscriber, #45564) [Link]
Mumble indeed is awesome. It even helped making my team (almost! ;)) win a Clanbase Quake 3 Opencup back when it was still rather new, and all the other, proprietary voice communication tools that were popular back then induced significantly higher latency while offering nowhere near the perceived quality mumble did.
How Ubuntu is Made (LinuxPlanet) Posted Sep 10, 2010 19:55 UTC (Fri) by jmm82 (guest, #59425) [Link]
Is Gobby better then Google docs?
Also, off topic I tried Ubuntu One, but have switched back to Dropbox since it works with my droid, ipad, Windows, and Linux. I am planning to write my own version of one of these programs so I can have more than two gb and easily have it work without a gui for all my servers. Does anyone have any good recommendations of a starting point?
How Ubuntu is Made (LinuxPlanet) Posted Sep 11, 2010 2:17 UTC (Sat) by mmcgrath (subscriber, #44906) [Link]
> Is Gobby better then Google docs?
It's a whole lot free'er
How Ubuntu is Made (LinuxPlanet) Posted Sep 11, 2010 6:25 UTC (Sat) by Cato (subscriber, #7643) [Link]
Have a look at Unison, it handles 2-way syncing pretty well and is CLI-based with optional GUI. It's written in OCaml, which is an interesting functional/OO language that compiles to machine code.
Gobby Posted Sep 12, 2010 14:46 UTC (Sun) by sladen (subscriber, #27402) [Link] Gobby is revision control with perfect merging at ten commits per-secondÂ…
Gobby Posted Sep 13, 2010 2:54 UTC (Mon) by cowsandmilk (guest, #55475) [Link]
um, that's nice, how is that relevant to using unison as a dropbox replacement?
How Ubuntu is Made (LinuxPlanet) Posted Sep 13, 2010 17:21 UTC (Mon) by jmm82 (guest, #59425) [Link]
I will check out Unison. I actually am very familiarly with OCaml. I actually did a one hour oral presentation for in in college, but that was 7 years ago;) It is a very cool language, if I remember! Thanks for the tip!
How Ubuntu is Made (LinuxPlanet) Posted Sep 12, 2010 17:26 UTC (Sun) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]
There's Novell's iFolder but, last I looked, I found it severely overengineered and cranky. I hope the iFolder architects have played with Dropbox and thought to themselves, "oops... I guess the problem really was this easy to solve."
Still, it might be a decent starting point.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IFolder
Sparkleshare Posted Sep 13, 2010 5:39 UTC (Mon) by jku (subscriber, #42379) [Link] Sparkleshare doesn't have a release yet, but looks promising. It's built on top of git. Hylke seems to be promising support for other OSes (Windows, OSX) in the future as well.
How Ubuntu is Made (LinuxPlanet) Posted Sep 16, 2010 6:16 UTC (Thu) by branden (subscriber, #7029) [Link]
E486: Pattern not found: Debian
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