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tsimonq2heheh popey :)00:07
tsimonq2jcastro: yeah my password has really special characters so I think that crashed it00:08
mhall119popey: jcastro: I'm telling you, we need a re-captcha that has people triage bugs before getting access, then let the spammers figure out how to do it00:12
tsimonq2heheh00:16
popeyI would not trust these idiots to triage a bug00:28
tsimonq2hahahahahah true XD00:29
jcastro"I order to access this wiki you must create a parser to convert moin to mediawiki."00:30
tsimonq2even better00:30
tsimonq2because then NOBODY would be on the wiki00:30
tsimonq2because I tried that once for another project, really hard...00:30
davidcalleMorning o/06:53
Kiloshi davidcalle dholbach svij and others07:08
svijmorning all07:08
dholbachhi Kilos, hey svij07:08
dholbachmarcoceppi, how's the world of juju, layers and django? can we update ubucon-site again?07:08
jcastropopey: alan.14:06
jcastrowatching apps going into the snappy store is kind of addicting14:06
popeyhah14:08
jcastroSince 2.0.2 landed all my stuff works14:09
jcastrowell, on this laptop anyway14:09
jcastroactually, I lie, the clock and calculator don't show up in the dash14:10
popeydpm: ^  šŸ˜ƒ14:11
popeysame here14:11
jcastroyou know what the best part is?14:12
jcastrowe can fix it whenever we want14:12
dpmpopey, jcastro, I don't know what's going on, they show up for me :/14:12
jcastrois there an equivalent of `dpkg -L` for snaps?14:12
popeyfind /snap/appname/current14:13
popeyI guess you could mount the squashfs file and look at it, dunno14:13
popeydpm: you're on 2.0.1 though?14:13
dpmpopey, I'm on 2.0.2 now14:14
popeyhm14:15
jcastroactually I don't see any snap apps in my dash and they all have .desktop files14:17
popeyjcastro: be interesting to see when number of snaps in the store overtakes number of clicks....14:17
popeyhttp://popey.mooo.com/mirror/clicks/graph_clicks.png14:17
popeyhttp://popey.mooo.com/mirror/clicks/graph_snaps.png14:17
popeyespecially given many clicks are "just" webapps14:17
popeywhich will be unlikely to happen with snaps14:17
popeysnaps are more likely to be "just re-packaged debs" which is _fine_ by me :)14:18
jcastroI think snaps will be perfect for these electron webapps14:18
popeyit's "just re-packaged debs which someone actually updates"14:18
jcastrothings like slack, etc.14:18
popeyyup14:18
popeyagreed14:18
jcastroplus, there were a large swath of users who never got to use clicks, myself included14:18
jcastronot having to buy hw to use it will be nice.14:19
dpmjcastro, do you have any of these electron webapps in mind?14:22
jcastroyeah! I have a whole list:14:23
jcastrohttps://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome-electron14:23
jcastroatom, visual studio code,14:24
jcastrohttps://github.com/MarshallOfSound/Google-Play-Music-Desktop-Player-UNOFFICIAL-14:24
jcastrothis one is quite awesome ^^^14:24
jcastrohttps://www.gitkraken.com/14:24
jcastroI use that for git, it's quite slick.14:25
jcastrooh, and simplenote is quite excellent, it was on omgubuntu the other day14:25
dpmpopey, let's add those to our list! :-)14:26
popeyyeah!14:26
popeyand teach jcastro how to make them :)14:27
* dpm high-fives popey :)14:27
popeythe reason I added qtox was because it does secure voice and video chat  šŸ˜ƒ14:28
popeyit's pretty awesome14:28
popeyneed more ways for jcastro to see my face14:28
jcastroI would like to try to do one14:28
jcastropopey: log out and back in14:29
jcastrosee #ubuntu-desktop, it's an artifact of the snappy->snapd move without us logging out and back in14:29
jcastroicons work for me now14:29
dpmpopey, jcastro, oh, also pretty good -> https://github.com/nuttyartist/notes, Qt-based, should be easy to snap14:30
dpm(famous last words)14:30
jcastrowhat is the best way of approaching snapping an electron app?14:30
jcastroconverting the deb or doing it from scratch?14:30
dpmjcastro, incidentally, I was looking at it yesterday14:31
dpmdisclaimer: I'm not an expert by any means, but I picked sergiusens' brain14:31
jcastrothe nice thing about electron apps is that there's new energy there and they're all mostly cross platform14:31
dpmI was trying to snap atom14:31
jcastrobut they wrap web services so they kind of need to be snaps because things change on the web so fast14:31
dpmatom uses a bit of a crazy build setup14:32
dpmso it's a bit difficult to abstract14:32
jcastroand nearly all of them just spit out debs that I have to manually update, and that gets old fast14:32
popeyjcastro: thanks14:32
dpmdeb first or upstream build has not a straight answer14:32
dpmin some cases snappyfying the .deb is a matter of 5 minutes14:33
dpmin others (i.e. Atom) it's best to do the build14:33
popeyyeah, i have been creating two branches, get the deb working first, then do the upstream source build14:33
dpmsnapcraft has this concept of plugins14:33
popeybecause with snap the problem for me has been more getting the thing running more than getting it built14:33
popeybut that's because I chose easily built stuff :)14:33
dpmyeah, popey's is a good approach, but we've found out it does not always work to create the .deb first14:34
dpmso I was talking with sergiusens about having an electron plugin for snapcraft that could take care of the build14:34
jcastroan electron plugin would get us a bunch of apps we've never had before14:34
dpmhowever, that assumes that all electron webaps use the same, standardized build setup14:34
jcastroand are relatively good and exciting14:34
dpmyeah14:34
dpmso it might be a good thing to explore14:35
jcastrohttps://github.com/mawie81/whatsdesktop14:35
jcastroI use this, and it's quite good14:35
jcastroI mean, it's not a "native app" and people will be cynical about it.14:36
jcastroon the otherhand, whatsapp on ubuntu14:36
dpmjcastro, I actually use the whatsapp webapp on the Ubuntu phone, but it requires for me to walk around with an Android phone, as it keeps asking you to reconnect, which is not optimal14:36
dpmsame as using whatsapp on your browser, it asks you to keep the connection alive14:37
dpmwhich to me makes it pointless to have on a desktop14:37
jcastrooh, lame. :/14:38
dpmyeah, it seems they also mention it on that app's README.md "Note: In order to use this app a WhatsApp Web compatible device is required."14:38
jcastrothere's gotta be one good hero app that is better than xbomb that like makes it obvious that having it as a snap is a good idea14:40
jcastroI mean, other than the 100 Markdown editors, heh14:40
popeyffmpeg built from tip of trunk is handy :)14:40
popeybut yes, we need things that people want the latest of, which is usually out of date in ubuntu after a few months14:41
popeyand never gets updated other than in PPAs14:41
popeyhave a look and see which are the most popular webupd8 ppas :)14:41
jcastrolet me check the webupd8 atom ppa14:43
jcastroatom - 1.7.1 -  xenial -   amd64 : 1313414:43
jcastrohow does 13k downloads stack up vs. click dl numbers?14:44
popeythat's quite a decent amount14:44
popeyhow did you get that number?14:44
jcastroI have a script14:44
popeygive14:45
popey:)14:45
jcastrohttps://github.com/marcoceppi/gypsy-danger14:45
popeyta14:45
jcastroit's what I use to get the nvidia numbers14:45
jcastrothe only caveat is it's cumulative14:45
jcastroso if version 1.0 has 100 downloads, and version 2.0 has 100 downloads it just means 100 people upgraded ... probably14:46
jcastroso 13,134 downloads of atom 1.7.1 happened, but those could be upgrades, and multilple installs, etc.14:47
jcastrotldr, use it as an indicator more than actual science14:47
popeysure14:48
popeythanks, very helpful14:49
jcastrooh man, youtube-dl would be a good one14:49
popeyits done14:50
popeydavidcalle did it14:50
jcastrooh!14:50
jcastronot in the store yet it seems14:50
davidcallejcastro: it even works!14:50
popeyUnfathomable!14:50
davidcallejcastro: generate the snap yourself! ;)14:51
davidcalleI still need to get around the new store workflow, but yeah, next step would be to publish it14:51
jcastrohttps://github.com/unindented/electron-installer-debian14:52
dpmjcastro, check this out, it's even one of our examples -> https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/desktop/examples/#snap-ubuntu :)14:52
jcastroso they have different ones, one for RH systems, one for windows14:52
jcastroelectron-installer-snap so people can just consume it and then publish on their own would be a good long term thing14:52
svijdpm: that was a subtle way to say RTFM to jcastro ^^14:53
jcastroheh14:53
jcastroIn my defense, none of this stuff worked for me until yesterday14:53
jcastroso I haven't been digging at all14:54
dpmsvij, well, jcastro is correct in that not all was working until yesterday, which is when we published the docs as well :)14:54
svijgood excuse. :)14:54
dpmand we've not widely publicised it for that reason too :)14:54
svijthat's why I didn't look into playing with snaps yet ;)14:55
dpmthat's why you haven't seen it on G+ and FB yet, but now you've heard of it, you've got no excuse ;)14:55
svij:D14:55
jcastroit's totally more motivational when you see the store yesterday, and then wake up this morning and there are 2 new apps14:55
jcastroI can literally be excited about apps every day instead of every 6 months14:55
* svij has a todo list item to snappyfy his todo list managerā€¦14:56
jcastrook and for launchpad PPAs14:59
jcastroI see there's snap features in launchpad14:59
jcastrobut is it as simple as a bunch of people just clicking a button?14:59
dpmjcastro, check out https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/desktop/get-started/#automating-snap-builds for the 30 seconds summary15:00
jcastrota15:00
jcastroI should probably read all of this and stop wasting your time, heh15:00
dpmnp, we spent quite a lot of time writing the docs, so it's actually rewarding to just have to hand over the links ;)15:01
jcastrooh so it builds but it appears it doesn't autopublish15:01
dpmjcastro, not yet, but it's on the LP roadmap IIRC. However, you can drive it with the LP API15:01
dpmok, team call15:02
jcastronod15:02
jcastroit'd be interesting to autopublish in the devel channel, but then the developer can bless builds for the stable release15:02
* davidcalle eods. Have a nice evening o/16:23
Kilosyou too davidcalle16:25
davidcalleThanks Kilos :)16:28
Kilos:D16:28
svijhttps://plus.google.com/+Ubuntu/posts/fHX7NqQ2gQ1 the test of this posting is misleadingā€¦16:40
dpmindeed, I've just got into our G+ page and fixed it, thanks svij for the heads up16:45
svijdpm: thanks!16:47
jcastrojose: you did the askubuntu bot on #juju didn't you?16:57
josewhat?16:58
joseaskubuntu bot?16:58
jcastroyeah, when someone asks a question it puts it in the irc channel16:59
jcastrodid you set that up? I guess not, heh16:59
josehehehe nope, not me17:01
joseI have the ubuntuonair bot17:02
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pleia2jcastro: any idea how long mitaka is supported on 14.04?19:47
jcastropretty sure it's going to be the same way as we did for 14.04 and it's openstack release, lemme dig around19:49
pleia2thank you :)19:51
jcastrohttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam/CloudArchive19:51
jcastroyeah, looks like it's the same19:51
pleia2oh, and I meant 14.04 specifically19:51
pleia2not 16.0419:51
pleia214.05 w/ cloud archive to use mitaka19:51
pleia214.0419:51
jcastrosudo add-apt-repository cloud-archive:mitaka19:52
jcastroaccording to that page19:52
jcastroI didn't realize that was working until just now19:52
pleia2"When 16.04's OpenStack version is released that will be added to the Cloud Archive with support for 3 years, i.e. until the end of the Ubuntu 14.04 LTS lifecycle."19:52
pleia2sweet19:52
pleia2so mitaka even on 14.04 will last 3 years, in theory19:52
pleia2and yeah, I've totally been using mitaka on 14.04 for the past month with the cloud archive, I just wasn't sure if it would be 18 months or 3 years19:54
jcastroso I guess theoretically you can skip an LTS and still never leave support19:54
pleia2the final manuscript for my book is due may 9th, there is no way I'm making the move to systemd and 16.04 at this point19:55
pleia2a little sad that it's going to be shipped with 14.04, but c'est la vie19:55
pleia2it's this or the book is never going to end19:55
pleia2always one more thing...19:55
jcastroheh19:56
jcastro14.04 with the latest hwe kernel is still an awesome release19:56
pleia2yeah, it really is19:56
pleia2jcastro: do you get to visit austin next week?19:59
jcastronot I. :-/19:59
jcastrolemme see who's going19:59
pleia2sad19:59
pleia2maybe for the best, apparently there is flooding and it'll be rainy ;)20:00
jcastroyeah, I like austin too20:01
popeyThat moment when you accidentally click "allow" on a spammer then furiously click back and deactivate!21:35
knomemakes for a whole week of excersize.21:36
knomeor however it's spelled, too hard21:36

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