@Andriod, at this point the cloud launcher is made up of LXC and JuJu which both come with the laptop. We have also kicked off a public effort on github to expand this to other platforms and technologies github.com/.../sputnik-cloudlauncher. Also on github is our effort around the profile tool which is in its early stages right now github.com/.../sputnik-profile. Feel free to dive in and offer any thoughts, suggestions or code :)
We're having this same discussion both here and on your blog, I'll continue mostly here.
I've forked both repos and will try to work with them, though I haven't done Ruby for some years and don't really want to get into the core of this project, maybe you'll see a patch or two. It would be easier if I had some sort of tool that would download the basic, standard, Ruby development tools, sort of a ruby developer profile... ;-)
Does anyone have a good getting started guide to recommend? I think I should be able to get LXC and/or juju to let me bring up a mail server that I can use locally to test some Java code against. The code would like to send and receive some mail via pop and smtp.
The other thing I'd love to get started with is the profile tool to deploy sets of development tools to classes, has anyone looked at that? There's atleast one step missing before "gem install sputnik-cli" in the getting started section on git too, I've forked it and maybe investigation will make that clear.
sputnik1 doesn't include the commands that sputnik-cli is meant to have, such as sputnik init. I think the main issue is that sputnik-cli is not actually an available ruby gem.
We are bringing someone on board to help get this in a little better shape. We've had a bunch of hurdles to jump thru on our side and we are very close (fingers crossed) to getting this going. Please stay tuned!
I am happy with my DE even without the two tools. I would not call these tools in beta on the product page but its a cool concept and I support your efforts.
I do. So is development going on internally at Dell? I notice the github is at least a month old.
Fostering a project community can be difficult in my experience and it requires a lot of external communication. In the form of project site, mailing lists, irc... definately the availability of the code and ability for members to contribute in a meaningful way.
I agree with you about the importance of communication, mailing lists etc. We are looking to bring on some folks internally and externally to help out. Thanks for the interest and stay tuned.
Does any portion of the sputnik-cli work? I tried installing sputnik-cli to no avail. I was able to install sputnik1, but then running the sputnik script bombs with a nil error. I'm excited about the idea and would potentially love to contribute, but need something to get started with... Please advise if there is anything usable at this point. Bootstrapping instructions would be good to.
I'm still trying to get it to work too, but haven't made much progress. I installed sputnik1 from the rubygems repository and then built and installed the sputnik-profile gem locally, but when I run "sputnik init" I just get "unknown command init".
Has anyone managed to get these tools built and installed? I'm interested in the concept too.
I don't currently have this tool, but this open source effort makes me want my next one to be a Dell...but I'd like to be able to use the profile tool to be able to preserve my development environment.
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December 18th, 2012 13:00
@Andriod, at this point the cloud launcher is made up of LXC and JuJu which both come with the laptop. We have also kicked off a public effort on github to expand this to other platforms and technologies github.com/.../sputnik-cloudlauncher. Also on github is our effort around the profile tool which is in its early stages right now github.com/.../sputnik-profile. Feel free to dive in and offer any thoughts, suggestions or code :)
Andriod
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December 18th, 2012 14:00
We're having this same discussion both here and on your blog, I'll continue mostly here.
I've forked both repos and will try to work with them, though I haven't done Ruby for some years and don't really want to get into the core of this project, maybe you'll see a patch or two. It would be easier if I had some sort of tool that would download the basic, standard, Ruby development tools, sort of a ruby developer profile... ;-)
Andriod
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December 18th, 2012 21:00
Does anyone have a good getting started guide to recommend? I think I should be able to get LXC and/or juju to let me bring up a mail server that I can use locally to test some Java code against. The code would like to send and receive some mail via pop and smtp.
The other thing I'd love to get started with is the profile tool to deploy sets of development tools to classes, has anyone looked at that? There's atleast one step missing before "gem install sputnik-cli" in the getting started section on git too, I've forked it and maybe investigation will make that clear.
Boolean Operato
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January 8th, 2013 18:00
Having similar build issues with installing sputnik. Does it seem cli was renamed to sputnik1?
eadlam
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January 9th, 2013 11:00
sputnik1 doesn't include the commands that sputnik-cli is meant to have, such as sputnik init. I think the main issue is that sputnik-cli is not actually an available ruby gem.
Andriod
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January 9th, 2013 12:00
Is there a makefile to turn the files on github into one?
Boolean Operato
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January 10th, 2013 11:00
Does not seem like it. I love the concept but pretty disappointing state of the project.
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January 10th, 2013 13:00
We are bringing someone on board to help get this in a little better shape. We've had a bunch of hurdles to jump thru on our side and we are very close (fingers crossed) to getting this going. Please stay tuned!
Boolean Operato
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January 10th, 2013 19:00
I am happy with my DE even without the two tools. I would not call these tools in beta on the product page but its a cool concept and I support your efforts.
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January 11th, 2013 07:00
Thanks! I assume you mean we should call them alpha or pre-alpha at this stage?
Boolean Operato
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January 11th, 2013 07:00
I do. So is development going on internally at Dell? I notice the github is at least a month old.
Fostering a project community can be difficult in my experience and it requires a lot of external communication. In the form of project site, mailing lists, irc... definately the availability of the code and ability for members to contribute in a meaningful way.
DELL-Barton George
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January 14th, 2013 12:00
I agree with you about the importance of communication, mailing lists etc. We are looking to bring on some folks internally and externally to help out. Thanks for the interest and stay tuned.
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January 14th, 2013 18:00
Does any portion of the sputnik-cli work? I tried installing sputnik-cli to no avail. I was able to install sputnik1, but then running the sputnik script bombs with a nil error. I'm excited about the idea and would potentially love to contribute, but need something to get started with... Please advise if there is anything usable at this point. Bootstrapping instructions would be good to.
Thanks.
eadlam
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January 15th, 2013 03:00
I'm still trying to get it to work too, but haven't made much progress. I installed sputnik1 from the rubygems repository and then built and installed the sputnik-profile gem locally, but when I run "sputnik init" I just get "unknown command init".
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Has anyone managed to get these tools built and installed? I'm interested in the concept too.
I don't currently have this tool, but this open source effort makes me want my next one to be a Dell...but I'd like to be able to use the profile tool to be able to preserve my development environment.