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Gustavo Niemeyer

Gustavo Niemeyer

5 posts

CTO

Gustavo Niemeyer is Canonical's CTO, and a software designer and hacker at heart.

Gustavo Niemeyer
5 April 2019

API v3 of the yaml package for Go is available

Cloud and server Article

API v3 of the yaml package for Go is out, and it brings comment handling, intermediate node representations, and much more. The initial sketch for v3 of the yaml package for Go was first drafted almost exactly a year ago, by the end of March last year (2018). If this package doesn’t sound familiar, it’s ...

Gustavo Niemeyer
6 September 2017

The snapd roadmap

Desktop Article

This article originally appeared at snapcraft forums released  snapd 2.27 (topic1) snapd 2.28  Improved configuration get output (topic)  Internal xdg-open implementation (topic3)  Refresh hook support (topic)  Lazy registrations on classic (topic3)  Service control on snap command (start/stop/etc) (topic3) Schedule beta Sep 4th candidate ...

Gustavo Niemeyer
3 August 2017

Stable releases, sprints, & more: A snapd recap

Desktop Article

The past few weeks have been very busy in the snapd world, and involved not only coding by itself but also face-to-face meet ups to discuss and detail what is to come. If you’re interested in what has been going on and what is to come, please read on. 2.26 went stable! It has been ...

Gustavo Niemeyer
16 June 2016

Leveling up snapd integration tests

Cloud and server Article

Over the last several months there has been noticeable and growing pain associated with the evolving integration tests around snapd, and given the project goal of being a cross-distribution platform, we are very keen on solving this problem appropriately so that stability is guaranteed everywhere.With that mindset a more focused effort wa ...

Gustavo Niemeyer
4 May 2016

Security confinement in Ubuntu Core

Cloud and server Article

As much anticipated, the recent release of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS included integrated support for snaps on classic Ubuntu. The snap format is part of Ubuntu Core, a modern software platform that includes the ability to define rich interfaces between snaps that control their security and confinement, comprehensive observation and control of syst ...