Bazaar 1.4 released

The 1.4 release of Bazaar includes handy improvements to the speed of log and status, new options for several commands, improved documentation, and better hooks, including initial code for server-side hooks. A number of bugs have been fixed, particularly in interoperability between different formats or different releases of Bazaar over there network. There’s been substantial internal work in both the repository and network code to enable new features and faster performance.

You can check out the full changelog at: https://launchpad.net/bzr/1.4/1.4/
And download it at the usual location: http://bazaar-vcs.org/Download

Tags: Bazaar

IDE Integration in Bazaar

I’ve just kicked off a wiki page to follow up on the state of Integration into IDEs, so, if you want a specific IDE worked on, or are currently working on an integration, please feel free (or encouraged even) to add it to the wiki page: http://bazaar-vcs.org/IDEIntegration

I hope that page eventually harbours enough information for any random person to land on it and find out if their favourite IDE currently works with bazaar, or enough information to start working on one.

Tags: Bazaar, Debian, Ubuntu

Hardy is out! Check out the Desktop Tour

It seems Hardy is officially released, so congrats to everyone

If you’re going to download, please use torrents and be generous with your upload bandwidth :)

Torrent Link: http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/8.04/ubuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso.torrent

While looking through the Ubuntu pages, I ran into the new Desktop Tour, which seems like a really fancy and polished way of showing what Ubuntu is about.

Tags: Ubuntu

Essential topics to get people to start helping out

I’m going to try one of these “dear lazyweb” thingies for the first time.

On saturday, all us latin american folks are having a contintent-wide install fest names Flisol.

This year I’m going to be giving a talk on how to help out in the community, and use very practical examples, even doing some of the work live (translate, for example).

The goal is to encourage more people to help out, and show them clear easy ways to do so.

Now, the big question: What topics do you think that should absolutely be mentioned?

Now, back to my slides…  :)

Tags: Ubuntu

Hardy Heron release party Argentina

Well, all the cool kids are doing it, so, here goes.

Tomorrow we’ll be getting together to celebrate an amazing Ubuntu release, and probably drink much more than we should*.
I’d like to invite anyone lurking around Buenos Aires to drop by, the more the merrier.

Where? Dr Mason(in the basement!)
Address? Araoz 1199 - Capital Federal
When? 24 april (duh!)
Time? 19:30hs

There is a wiki page setup for this, so, if you’re sure your coming, please sign up  :)

Big thanks for Miguel and Felipe for organizing it!

Cya there!

* Optional

Tags: Ubuntu

Google just keeps getting smarter…

It’s amazing how google just keeps getting smarter and smarter…

Tags: Debian, Ubuntu

Shell History

malbisetti@pentaserv:~/red_teatral$ history|awk ‘{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’|sort -rn|head
292 bzr
51 cd
29 tail
25 ls
24 exit
17 screen
15 su
9 vim
6 rm
6 cat

Right, I might be using bzr a bit too much…  :)

Tags: Bazaar, Debian, Ubuntu

Bazaar hosting on Launchpad slow this weekend

Just a quick note for everyone who is wondering, bazaar hosting on Launchpad is horrifyingly slow this weekend, so, “it’s not just you”.

Seems the devs are working on it, and part of the problem has been fixed, but it’s still not there yet.

Good thing it’s a distributed version control system, huh?

Tags: Bazaar, Launchpad, Ubuntu

I’m going to DebConf8


I'm going to DebConf8, edition 2008 of the annual Debian developers meeting

And also, I want to point out the logo design was made by a good friend of mine, Lisandro Martinez Basabilvaso.

Now, if they would only fix his name in the winner announcements…

Tags: Debian, Ubuntu

Couldn’t attend the sprint? You can still help!

It occurred to me that many people couldn’t attend the last bzr sprint, and having missed out on other conferences myself, I know how discouraging it can be left out of the action   :)

Anyway, a great wiki page was setup with everything that was discussed, and who’s going to work on what, so feel free to sign up yourself to the bits you are interested, and get in touch with the rest of the folks to coordinate efforts.

Tags: Bazaar, Debian, Ubuntu