Just released version 0.8.9 to the Open Store with @danqo6's latest changes, thanks very much!

Heya,

Just stumbled across this (if you need to contact me in the future my email address is mike@mikeasoft.com)

Feel free to fork the project if you'd like to take over maintenance of it, I'd rather it saw active development than languished due to my lack of time.

A major reason I'd stuck with Launchpad was for the translation integration and the excellent contributions from the Ubuntu Translators group. I think internationalisation is extremely important for usability (if something's not available in a language you speak it's pretty much unusable regardless of what else it offers), so if you do switch to a git hosting platform I'd appreciate it if you could set-up equivalent translation infrastructure.

Best of luck
Mike

Hi folks,

I'm Mike Sheldon, I've spent the past three years working on the phone full time at Canonical, mostly working on the on-screen keyboard and the download manager, but also doing odd bits and pieces on content-hub and the web browser. In my spare time I also created a bunch of my own apps for the phone including Podbird and CuteSpotify and also ported a few things like ScummVM.

I'm not entirely sure what my free time's going to look like in the near future, but I'm happy to help out where I can

Actually I think we shifted ownership of Podbird trunk to the Podbird Developers group back when we were still actively working on it, so I'm happy to add any of you who wish to continue work on that branch to that group and you'll be able to merge directly into it yourselves then (although I'd recommend you still maintain some code review amongst yourselves if there's enough of you).

@CiberSheep I'm happy to continue maintaining my bazaar branch if that's what people would prefer; although you may want to arrange code reviews amongst yourselves, so that you're not so held up on my time availability for reviewing (i.e. someone besides me can review and approve a branch and then I'll just merge it, trusting their judgement)

Or if you'd like to shift to git with someone else as the primary maintainer I'm still happy to publish builds for you, that way existing users will get upgrades directly from the open store and we can avoid having two different versions in the store.

Oh also, I own the podbird.org domain, if you'd like me to point the DNS towards somewhere else let me know.

Back before Ubuntu Touch was dropped by Canonical I had been working on some network services to sync subscriptions between devices, offer charts and recommendations, and to provide push notifications for new episodes; if you'd like to carry on with any of that work I've uploaded the site source code here:

https://github.com/Elleo/podbird-web

And the corresponding client code is in this branch:

https://code.launchpad.net/~michael-sheldon/podbird/sync-settings-devel

Cheers,
Mike

@joe That wasn't a new feature, it was a bug fix (a previous MR had included a change to the playback rate which shouldn't have been there). I might see about making the playback rate configurable when putting together the next release though

I just had a bit of a play with this and was able to get it working with just the following changes to the original repository:

1. Set X-Ubuntu-XMir-Enable=true in the .desktop file
2. Remove the policy groups from the AppArmor profile and set "template": "unconfined", instead

It seems x-mir-helper isn't able to launch confined, perhaps there should be a discussion about adding an AppArmor policy for these use cases?

Just released version 0.8.9 to the Open Store with @danqo6's latest changes, thanks very much!

I don't think any mobile devices tend to support desktop OpenGL (libGL), you'll need to compile against OpenGL ES (libGLES) which is already distributed as part of the Ubuntu Touch image.

@joe That wasn't a new feature, it was a bug fix (a previous MR had included a change to the playback rate which shouldn't have been there). I might see about making the playback rate configurable when putting together the next release though

Thanks @danqo6, I'll give it a review when I have a bit of time spare and put out a new release

@dobey Opened here: https://github.com/ubports/apparmor-easyprof-ubuntu/issues/16

@dobey Okay, will do!

I just had a bit of a play with this and was able to get it working with just the following changes to the original repository:

1. Set X-Ubuntu-XMir-Enable=true in the .desktop file
2. Remove the policy groups from the AppArmor profile and set "template": "unconfined", instead

It seems x-mir-helper isn't able to launch confined, perhaps there should be a discussion about adding an AppArmor policy for these use cases?

Actually I think we shifted ownership of Podbird trunk to the Podbird Developers group back when we were still actively working on it, so I'm happy to add any of you who wish to continue work on that branch to that group and you'll be able to merge directly into it yourselves then (although I'd recommend you still maintain some code review amongst yourselves if there's enough of you).

@CiberSheep I'm happy to continue maintaining my bazaar branch if that's what people would prefer; although you may want to arrange code reviews amongst yourselves, so that you're not so held up on my time availability for reviewing (i.e. someone besides me can review and approve a branch and then I'll just merge it, trusting their judgement)

Or if you'd like to shift to git with someone else as the primary maintainer I'm still happy to publish builds for you, that way existing users will get upgrades directly from the open store and we can avoid having two different versions in the store.

Oh also, I own the podbird.org domain, if you'd like me to point the DNS towards somewhere else let me know.

Back before Ubuntu Touch was dropped by Canonical I had been working on some network services to sync subscriptions between devices, offer charts and recommendations, and to provide push notifications for new episodes; if you'd like to carry on with any of that work I've uploaded the site source code here:

https://github.com/Elleo/podbird-web

And the corresponding client code is in this branch:

https://code.launchpad.net/~michael-sheldon/podbird/sync-settings-devel

Cheers,
Mike