Git and Bash Love
I’ve recently been working with git a lot, more specifically with branches. I love git’s branching and its fairly awesome. However, its also easy to forget which branch you’re currently working on (especially awful to find that the commits you did were to master :/). Sometime back I did some extensive searching to fix that…
Fix FTBFS Jam
As of me writing this post, there are about 428 packages that have failed to build from source (FTBFS)]. We’re doing a FTBFS jam this Wednesday (29 June, 2011). If you’re interested in helping out, drop by in #ubuntu-motu) and just generally say that you want to help fix FTBFS and someone will be able…
Hacking on Ubuntu Single Sign-On
As most of you, who’ve used community projects like Loco Team Portal and Summit know, we use login.launchpad.net as our open id provider. I believe the future is to use login.ubuntu.com. It is more consitent in terms of design, and is the exact same code as login.launchpad.net but with different configuration and theme. We have…
Landing with tarmac
I heard about Tarmac a few weeks ago when Shane mentioned it in one of his intern diary blog posts. At that point I didn’t actually look into it much since I thought it was something that’s internal to Canonical. Last week, Michael Hall told me about Tarmac again and how they use it to…
Cleaning up the Planet
For a while I’ve noticed that Planet Ubuntu configurations are in a sort of mess. Officially, individuals who are Ubuntu members and some other organizations (more details) can post to the planet. But when someone’s membership expires, cleaning the config is a painful and tedious task. Additionally, there is also no way, other than manual,…
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