Martin Albisetti

Upload your websites with bzr-upload

beuno — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 02:37:20 +0000

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.

Project’s page: https://launchpad.net/bzr-upload

Comments, feedback, patches, etc are very welcome.

MySQL migrates to Bazaar!

beuno — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:06:02 +0000

This just in, MySQL has migrated from BitKeeper to Bazaar. They also seem to be using Launchpad quite extensively, and have already updated their installation from source instructions.
Not only is it a big user base for Bazaar, but yet another move from Closed Source to Open Source software.

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… thir… er… me too.

beuno — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 05:02:40 +0000

+1 to Robert’s suggestion.
Maybe make that optional? “email me my own comments and bug reports”

Fun (or weird) aliases to configure

beuno — Sat, 31 May 2008 08:00:51 +0000

After half an hour of randomly re-reading xkcd strips, I thought I’d start a meme: Fun or weird aliases for commands.
Kick start, aliases for “sudo”:

simonsays apt-get install python2.5
please apt-get install python2.5
youdo apt-get install python2.5

Big Buck Bunny, open source at it’s best

beuno — Sat, 31 May 2008 03:11:40 +0000

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.

Ubuntu CDs getting stuck in customs…

beuno — Tue, 20 May 2008 01:56:09 +0000

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.

Bazaar 1.4 released

beuno — Sat, 03 May 2008 02:27:45 +0000

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

IDE Integration in Bazaar

beuno — Sat, 03 May 2008 02:24:53 +0000

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.

Hardy is out! Check out the Desktop Tour

beuno — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:07:24 +0000

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.

Essential topics to get people to start helping out

beuno — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:01:51 +0000

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…