Ubuntu has some tools around i18n to make it easier to translate desktop software into many languages. Currently, some of that depends on stuff in CDBS (adding the gettext domain to .desktop files, stripping the translations from gconf schemas, etc.). This is all in /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/langpack.mk. I would like to use debhelper instead of CDBS in [...]
Feb
5
Interested in porting Ubuntu i18n infrastructure from CDBS to debhelper
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Dec
23
RTMP license forbids anyone from storing data?
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I’m interested in the RTMP video over http protocol because I’m interested in video streaming. From reading the wikipedia entry, I saw that Adobe published the RTMP spec. Surprisingly, it had a license accompanying it – I’m not used to seeing a license next to a specification, so I read the license rather than downloading [...]
Oct
12
chdist, for easily working on packages from multiple distributions
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If you ever need to do backports, I recommend the chdist tool. While working on one.ubuntu.com, I have frequently found myself needing to try out packages on both Ubuntu 8.04 and Ubuntu 9.10 (currently under development), often backporting a package from Karmic to Hardy. I’ve been running 9.10 (Karmic) on my primary laptop since the [...]
Jul
23
choosing a wsgi server
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Working on ubuntuone.com, we have a few different WSGI applications, and some WSGI middleware that we run across all of them. Some of the WSGI applications are Django, some are custom built, and we’re planning to deploy some based on lazr.restful. Currently we run a mildly complicated proxy in front of the WSGI servers made [...]
