We’ve been talking about the Ubuntu Developer Tools Center for a few months now. We’ve seen a lot of people testing it out & contributing and we had a good session at the Ubuntu Online Summit about what the near future holds for UDTC. Also during that session, emerging from feedback we received we talked about how “UDTC” and “Ubuntu Developer Tools Centre” is a bit of mouthfull, and the acronym is quite easy to muddle.
In a nutshell, this release is fixing the changes introduced by the new Android Studio (0.8.14) download in beta channel. The web page changed from a md5 checksum to a sha1. We do that check as we grab that information from a secure https connexion, but then, we download from dl.google.com which isn't https enabled. Thanks again to Tin Tvrtković who did the work to add this support and makes the necessary changes!
Eclipse and Android ADT support now in Ubuntu Developer Tools Center Now that the excellent Ubuntu 14.10 is released, it's time to focus as part of our Ubuntu Loves Developers effort on the Ubuntu Developer Tools Center and cutting a new release, bringing numerous new exciting features and framework support! 0.1 Release main features Eclipse support Eclipse is now part of the Ubuntu Developer Tools Center thanks to the excellent work of Tin Tvrtković who implemented the needed bits to bring that up to our users!
We are starting to see multiple awesome code contributions and suggestions on our Ubuntu Loves Developers effort and we are eagerly waiting on yours! As a consequence, the spectrum of supported tools is going to expand quickly and we need to ensure that all those different targeted developers are well supported, on multiple releases, always delivering the latest version of those environments, at anytime. A huge task that we can only support thanks to a large suite of tests!
Last week, we announced our "Ubuntu Loves Developers" effort! We got some great feedback and coverage. Multiple questions arose around how to help and be part of this effort. Here is the post to answer about this :) Our philosophy First, let's define the core principles around the Ubuntu Developer Tools Center and what we are trying to achieve with this: UDTC will always download, tests and support the latest available upstream developer stack.
Ubuntu is one of the best Linux platforms with an awesome desktop for regular users (and soon phone and tablets and more!) and great servers for system administrators and devops. A number of developers are choosing Ubuntu as their primary development system of choice, even if they develop for platforms other than Ubuntu itself, like doing some Android development, web development and so on. However, even if we fill the basic needs for this audience, we decided a few months ago to start a development and integration effort to make those users completely feel at home.
Bonjour à tous, Suite à une discussion lors de la dernière Ubuntu Party à Paris, une proposition a été faite de résumer ce qui a été débattu pendant l'Ubuntu Developer Summit en ligne qui a eu lieu de mardi à jeudi soir. Pour rappelle l'UDS est le lieu (maintenant complètement en ligne) où toutes les décisions techniques concernant le développement d'Ubuntu sont prises. Tout le monde est invité à participer par conférence vidéo ou directement sur IRC.
It's been a long time I didn't talk about our daily release process on this blog. For those who are you not aware about it, this is what enables us to release continuously most of the components we, as the ubuntu community, are upstream for, to get into the baseline. Historic Some quick stats since the system is in place (nearly since last December for full production): we are releasing as of now 245 components to distro every day (it means, everytime a meaningfull change is in any of those 245 components, we will try to release it).
Just a quick note on Daily Releases (process to upload to the ubuntu distribution more than 200 components Canonical is upstream for in various ubuntu series). After some discussions on #ubuntu-release today, we decided to evoluate the daily release versioning schema: we previously had <upstream_version>daily<yy.mm.dd>-0ubuntu1 as a daily release schema in the regular case multiple releases a day for the same component would give: <upstream_version>daily<yy.mm.dd>.minor-0ubuntu1, where minor is an incremental digit for maintenance branch, we previously had <upstream_version>daily<yy.
I hope that everyone enjoyed the new virtual UDS format as we did. :) However, don't despair, it's not really *over* yet! The discussion around the application lifecycle[1] was covering a too large spectrum and we didn't get time to properly finish discussing it. As we didn't want to run over other sessions, we decided to reschedule it just after UDS. The new follow-up session "Application model: lifecycle" will happen this Friday, March 8, 16:00 – 16:25 UTC.