Hello! I’m Leo. I work as part of the engineering team around Ubuntu and Snapcraft [1].
Last year I found about mosh, and it has been the most amazing experience. It solves most of the problems due to my unstable latin american internet connection; so first, let me say thank you very much! I was reading about your new candidate release, and I thought that this might be interesting for you. We’re working on snaps, a platform to enable developers to directly control delivery of software updates to their users, and make their software available in a secure way, with automatic updates in different channels. The channels are particularly relevant when trying to release new versions, and solve an old problem we had with Ubuntu. Instead of having a 6 month cycle for everybody, you can push different versions whenever you want. So you could push a new version to the edge channel every time something lands on your repository, to get extreme early feedback from your contributors. When you make a freeze to stabilize for the release, you can push that to the beta channel. And when you are ready to release but want to give it to a greater audience for the final checks, you can push to the candidate channel. When everybody is happy with the release, it can be pushed to the stable channel. Your users just decide the level of risk they want to take, and they will constantly receive updates when you push something new. I this sounds like a good fit for your project, I would love to work with you making the snap. I'm particularly interested in the feedback that you can give us about a few new features that might be useful for mosh. pura vida. [1] http://snapcraft.io/ _______________________________________________ mosh-devel mailing list mosh-devel@mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/mosh-devel