Category: Ubuntu One
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Developing and scaling Ubuntu One filesync, part 1
Now that we’ve open sourced the code for Ubuntu One filesync, I thoughts I’d highlight some of the interesting challenges we had while building and scaling the service to several million users. The teams that built the service were roughly split into two: the foundations team, who was responsible for the lowest levels of the service…
Martin Albisetti
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On open sourcing Ubuntu One filesync
This week has been bitter-sweet. On the one hand, we announced that a project many of us had poured our hearts and minds into was going to be shut down. It’s made many of us sad and some of us haven’t even figured out what to do with their files yet 🙂 On the other…
Martin Albisetti
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Ubuntu One Files for Android released!
After a long and interesting journey, today we’ve released Ubuntu One Files for Android. The app started being developed by Michał Karnicki as a Google Summer of Code project, and he did such a fantastic job at it that we hired him on full time and teamed him up Chad Miller to end up releasing…
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Thunderbird will be default in Oneiric (11.10), maybe
A very healthy and civilised session about switching to Thunderbird by default just ended here in the Ubuntu Developer Summit, and the outcome was that if the Thunderbird developers manage to do some needed work (to be defined) by a certain time in our cycle (to be defined), we will ship Oneiric and more importantly,…
Martin Albisetti
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Looking for a CSS/HTML guru to work on Ubuntu One
In the last few months, I’ve been lucky enough to be able to hire some exceptional people that were contributing to Ubuntu One in their free time. Every time someone comes in from the community, filled with excitement about being able to work on their pet project full time my job gets that much better.…
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Ubuntu, Natty and Unity
I have to confess, after I heard I found out we where shipping Unity in Ubuntu by default I was nervous. I got asked many times what my feelings were, and I think I generally dodged the question. This was a pretty risky move, which we are still a few months away from finding out…
Martin Albisetti
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Open source is awesome
I am ZOMG very tired from the exciting release for Ubuntu One, but I wanted to highlight a very pleasant surprise. We launched the Ubuntu One Music Streaming a week ago, and yesterday, while hadn’t yet publicly released, we got a patch that adds support to tell last.fm the music you are listing from the…
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Exciting changes in Ubuntu One
Matt Griffin has written a great blog post, so I’m just going to echo it: After over a year’s worth of feedback from users like you and a clear view of where we want to take Ubuntu One in the future, we’ve just made some changes to the Ubuntu One service offering and pricing plans.…
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Ubuntu One Music Streaming public beta!
After a solid 6 months of work, music streaming is up for public testing! \o/ Read the full announcement for all the details, and go see the wiki page on how to sign up.
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No, we are not infringing any licenses
We spend a lot of time making sure we’re not violating any licenses, and usually work with upstream early on. Charlie Smotherman got confused about how we had implemented music streaming and filed a bug reporting a violation. I’d encourage anyone who even suspects there may be a license violation to report a bug or…
Martin Albisetti
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