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Re: Stéphane Graber has left Canonical

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BaseballPhysics wrote: post #118
MR4D wrote: post #101

“ As I’ve told colleagues and upper management, Canonical isn’t the company I excitedly joined back in 2011 and it’s not a company that I would want to join today ” Pretty damning comment. I don’t know the backstory here, but it seems aimed at management not doing a good job given the praise he lavished on the tech teams. Can someone here fill me on the issues they’re facing?

Yeah, tbh I was a little shocked he put that out there. Speaking for myself, I know I wouldn't publicly burn a bridge like that for what seems to be no good reason, and I'd advise anyone leaving a job to try to do so on reasonable terms if possible. If Canonical is really that bad, people already know (and judging by the comments... yeah... not great).

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Re: Stéphane Graber has left Canonical

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Post by v3ss0n »

HumanOstrich wrote: post #108
v3ss0n wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

- if you have a good hardware , you can easily build digital ocean / aws lightsail like environment with a single install in 5 mins of configuration - A VPS Like experience for both Containers and QEMU - Quick and easy multi-tenancy - Very easy to build development enviorment isloated from the system. - Isolation host for docker containers. - Automatic networking support with DHCP , OVN or MacVLAN if you have multipl…

I'm curious as to why you put spaces before commas. It's incorrect and slightly obnoxious to read.

Thanks, hard to format, I was on car while typing on phone.

Re: Stéphane Graber has left Canonical

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Post by stubish »

dmurray wrote: post #85
lbhdc wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It also struck me as a red flag that Canonical is 100% BYOD (Bring Your Own Device), and they do not provide a work computer. You can apply for a _loan_ to buy a computer for work, but they will not pay for one. If a company is too cheap to provide a computer at a job where you work remotely and exclusively on a computer, I don't want to be a part of that company. That doesn't seem so bad to me. I have always prefe…

Specifically for Canonical, BYOD seems like a great way to dogfood running Ubuntu on all kinds of machines, rather than everyone having the same model of Dell workstation and a separate testing lab being the only place they encounter diverse hardware. Not saying this is their reasoning - and if they're not too cheap, it would surely be better for tax purposes to buy your employees computers than pay them the equivale…

This was one of the reasons. Also, how does a small company provide a laptop to remote workers across the globe in just about every locale and tax jurisdiction, many with specific job requirements and most with Strong Opinions?

There are many reasons not to work for Canonical, but the opportunity to pick and choose your own hardware rather than suffer what someone else thought your would need seems an odd choice.

Re: Stéphane Graber has left Canonical

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Post by v3ss0n »

HumanOstrich wrote: post #108
v3ss0n wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

- if you have a good hardware , you can easily build digital ocean / aws lightsail like environment with a single install in 5 mins of configuration - A VPS Like experience for both Containers and QEMU - Quick and easy multi-tenancy - Very easy to build development enviorment isloated from the system. - Isolation host for docker containers. - Automatic networking support with DHCP , OVN or MacVLAN if you have multipl…

I'm curious as to why you put spaces before commas. It's incorrect and slightly obnoxious to read.

Another problem is use of auto formatters. When I am on phone I expect it to auto format text.

Re: Stéphane Graber has left Canonical

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Post by v3ss0n »

ornornor wrote: post #87
v3ss0n wrote: post #43

He is a great guy , i helped debugging ZFSMount problems with him - which causes LXD Container restarts to fail. It was just solved in previous release ( usual suspect , it is because of snap. ) . I would like to contribute on his new opensource projects.

Can I ask about the unusual punctuation? I’ve never seen a country where you put a space before the comma or where you space around parens like that. I’m only aware of the French adding a space before ! and ?

Mainly beca auto formatters. It becomes a habit.

Re: Stéphane Graber has left Canonical

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Post by fsckboy »

pjmlp wrote: post #122
fsckboy wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

with linux? i swap hard drives all the time

With whatever OS you like. Good luck switching hard drives on locked down customer provided laptops, or from the own IT on the consulting firm for that matter.

no, not whatever OS you like. Windows installations are coded against doing this. You can copy your Windows partition to a new disk and insert that, carefully, but you can't plug it into a different motherboard.

but you can with Linux.

I've never tried it with MacOS but the days of swapping Apple harddrives are in the past anyway.

Re: Stéphane Graber has left Canonical

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Post by niemeyer »

pxc wrote: post #107

> Following the announcement of my resignation, Canonical decided to pull LXD out of the Linux Containers projects and relocate it to a full in-house project. That’s the news which we announced last week. So is this like retaliation? Or an effort to reduce Stephane's influence over LXD? Or was it just that he'd been the one who pushed for developing LXD in the open, and with him gone they figured 'why bother'?

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 some of the infrastructure himself. From his own comments in the forum:

"In theory Ubuntu Discourse should be more reliable in that it’s run by Canonical IS who has a 24/7 team of people looking after services unlike this forum where I’m the one running the infrastructure and dealing with outages."

Nothing is changing about how in the open LXD is developed.

Re: Stéphane Graber has left Canonical

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Post by niemeyer »

trufas wrote: post #54

LXD is great tech and a pleasure to work with. This blows. Hopefully an actually open alternative pops up. Canonical's general bad attitude towards FOSS is just appalling.

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?

Re: Stéphane Graber has left Canonical

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Post by niemeyer »

0xbadcafebee wrote: post #20

CLAs are a great reason not to contribute to corporate source. I'm not a lawyer, so I don't really know all the implications of what I'm signing, and I'm not gonna hire a lawyer just to send you a bug fix for your own product. Either take my code without a contract or live with the bugs.

> 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 the project up for the long run, under the defined license, in all senses including the legal one. So the CLA is the way to integrate contributions without strings that remain legally attached to the author of these contributions. So the CLA is, ironically, the way for these major maintainers to say "no strings attached or wait until we fix the bugs" back to you.

Re: Stéphane Graber has left Canonical

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Post by apple4ever »

monocasa wrote: post #32
ss1996 wrote: post #2

On a side note - has anyone applied to Canonical for a software job? Their first step is a written interview which requires as much, if not more, effort as a graduate college application.

Oxide was similar. Something like 12 pages written just to be ghosted.

I don't understand ghosting. I really don't. It's not hard to keep a candidate informed. As a hiring manager I always let candidates know quickly, within a few days if I can, but I never ever ghost.
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