Archive for November 2006

Slippery Slopes

One of the most interesting thing about slippery slopes is how you never seem to be standing at the top of them, looking down. The slope seems fine at the top, and it’s only once you start down it that you realise this could end up with some broken limbs.
When Ubuntu was formed, Debian [...]

What we’ll get in feisty

This post is a sequel to my “What I want in edgy+1″ post, which was written when the developer summit was first announced. Now that the summit (and the following company All Hands meeting) is over, and we’re all back home, this seems as good a time as any to review what was discussed [...]

The Edgy Dance

Last week, a few of us gathered at Canonical’s London offices to oversee the final release preparations. This basically consists of testing the various candidate CD images and performing both install and upgrade tests on them.
As you can imagine, three people performing repeated tests of edgy means that the fabled startup sound got many, [...]