I was lucky enough to be able to attend the Bazaar Sprint back in March, mostly thanks to Canonical sponsoring my entire trip across the globe
The sprint was interesting in all sorts of ways, and it got me working on several projects (some of which I’ll talk about in future posts), but there was one in particular that amazed me how fast it was put together. Bzr-upload.
It all started one night, while sitting across the table from Vincent Ladeuil, the guy who basically wrote transports in Bazaar, and I started complaining about how I had to work around bazaar to make it fit into my daily work flow (doing web development).
The problem was simple: bzr doesn’t update the working tree (the actual files) remotely, so there was no simple way for me to upload the websites I worked on a daily basis.
Long story short, Vincent asked some questions, sat down, wrote tests, wrote code to work with those tests (TDD, FTW), and after some fiddling, we can now upload websites (and anything else, actually) using bzr’s knowledge of what we’ve changed, and it’s solid transport libraries (ftp, sftp).
So… how does this work? Simple.
Assuming you already have bzr installed, fire up a terminal and do: bzr checkout lp:bzr-upload ~/.bazaar/plugins/upload
Now that we have the plugin installed, go to the branch containing your website, and with a simple: beuno@beuno-laptop:/mywebsite$ bzr upload sftp://beuno@host/path/to/http
No uploaded revision id found, switching to full upload
Uploading bar
Uploading foo
Done!
Did more work?
beuno@beuno-laptop:/mywebsite$ bzr ci -m'Random bug fix'
Committing to: /mywebsite/
modified foo
Committed revision 2.
beuno@beuno-laptop:/mywebsite$ bzr upload
Using saved location: sftp://beuno@host/path/to/http
Uploading foo
That’s it!
bzr-upload will remember the last revision you uploaded, and make sure it only sends what you’ve changed.
Congratulations to all the Canonical folks to helped with the move (I hear John and Elliot had a lot to do with it in particular), and welcome MySQLers
I’ve just finished watching the short film sponsored by the Blender Foundation, and I really have to say, it just feels better and better being in the open source world.
It’s an amazing production, both in the quality of the rendering, sound, and amazing idea behind it.
The official site is currently down due to heavy digging and such, but I happen to have the torrent link stored, so here’s a direct link to it, and, the embedded YouTube version (if you read through the planet, you might have to click to the post to watch it).
It’s licensed under Creative Commons, so besides being encouraged to share it, you can download all the original material used for it and all the tools, for free.
Here at the Argentina LoCo, we have been avoiding requesting the LoCo CD pack, due to it getting stuck in customs for random reasons, making it sometimes impossible to retrieve it, and other having to pay a tax of over 100usd.
I’m curious if this is just a problem over here, or if other LoCos are in the same situation, and, if any, what workarounds have to found.
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.
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.
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?
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!
I live in Argentina and currently work in a web development/Linux migration company oriented towards open source called Pentacorp, from where you can get in touch with me for any web development or Linux migration in Argentina you might need.
