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> Either take my code without a contract or live with the bugs The less simplistic view of the situation is that major maintainers (corporate or otherwise) pay the price of keeping…

I'm sad to see Stephane leaving, but it's lost in me how his departure towards doing whatever else he wants to do suddenly transforms into LXD not being open?

It was always pretty clear that something would have to get adjusted the day Stephane left the company, because it's a major project for Canonical and Stephane preferred to run som…

I don't know who you talked to, but I can tell the story is richer and more interesting than that. Saying that snaps have performance issues is similar to saying that containers ha…

That's exactly it. I work at Canonical and was part of the internal conversation around this subject. We constantly walk that fine line where we want to encourage open source work …

> It is a pretty nifty idea but like all things made by Canonical it is basically digitized garbage. > At least those are not made by people with a disdain for error checking. Ever…

If it makes you happy, yes, I see it. But that doesn't make things better for anyone. We've had more interesting discussions around this issue where people could actually present g…

Indeed the size calculation is incorrect. It's likely looking at the unpacked size, but snaps are never unpacked, which ironically is a difference missed by itself. These are the a…

Yes, the article indeed is on the low end. It focuses mainly on the package sizes, and gets it very wrong as mentioned in other comments.

Yes, the size is wrong. It's looking at the unpacked size, but the snaps are never unpackaged. Here are the actual sizes for the mentioned snaps: $ snap info vlc | grep stable: sta…

There's a long thread with in depth discussion about this: https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/disabling-automatic-refresh-for... For those that understandably won't want to go through it…

There are self-hosted proxies, and there are publicly hosted stores, but all stores are part of the exact same hierarchy and share some of their knowledge. That's mainly a conseque…

> I'm assuming with "LSM stacking" that you mean The term "LSM stacking" is public. Search for it and you'll get good material. > Are you going to convince Red Hat to That's not ho…

I don't think that was ever true? Docs: https://docs.snapcraft.io/build-snaps/electron Example: snap info electron-quick-start

> I don't think it's the majority _per se_ (since Ubuntu Core can't run those), but most of the popular ones likely do. No, that's also incorrect if you slice it by popularity. We …

> Snaps rely heavily on Ubuntu's specific flavor of AppArmor to be able to offer full confinement, The AppArmor patches have been largely upstreamed by Canonical, and improvements …

No, not really. Files at ~/.* were never readable or writable for strict snaps, even when they were granted the "home" interface, precisely for that sort of reason. The file permis…

I work for Canonical on snapd, so can provide some background here. You're probably describing Ubuntu Core instead of classic Ubuntu. The UX there is oriented for devices, and it w…

Such competing efforts are actually a form of non-voluntary collaboration. rpm and deb (and apt, yum, synaptic, ...) have significantly evolved together along the years, looking at…

Yes, people are using in production. Last community meeting we had some folks reported a large server deployment in the UK (in the order of thousands of servers) that was being par…

We have a sprint next week to discuss some of that. The recent focus around snaps has been on the feature set leading to Ubuntu Core 16, which is itself in freeze at this point. Th…

Interview processes aren't about ensuring 100% of the good candidates get hired, but rather about trying to ensure that the candidate finally selected is good. Being several times …

If you log into one of their shared hosts you'll see custom kernel, custom packages, etc.

Indeed, or any other case where the application is granted permission to do something sensitive (camera?) and abuses that trust. Even in those cases, though, it is an improvement t…