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This seems interesting, but the fact that the officially supported distro is still Ubuntu 16.04 is alarming. There is no good excuse for actively developed sof

by wolrah 7y ago

This seems interesting, but the fact that the officially supported distro is still Ubuntu 16.04 is alarming. There is no good excuse for actively developed software to require an outdated operating system. I get that it's a LTS platform, but so is 18.04. 16.04 only has ~1 year of support left, so deploying infrastructure on it now is idiotic. At this point they should at least be recommending 18.04 and should be testing on betas of 20.04 while considering compatibility issues to be high priority.

capableweb 7y ago
Seems like a set of ~8 or something core contributors working on this open source project. You talk about it like it's a professional product. Ubuntu 16.04 is still everywhere and I'm sure they have their reasons for not having time to deploy on multiple platforms / architectures / beta lines in order to test changes. I think you best shot at fixing this problem that has "no good excuse" and using it would be "idiotic" would be to contribute yourself. The least you can do is open a thoughtful issue asking the same things you asked here, but in a way better tone. Even better would be to contribute code but eh, Java. Edit: another comment in this thread: "That readme is 17months old. and the reference to 16.04 is atleast 3 years old. So it may just not have been properly updated." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22611533 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22611533
- 0az 7y ago
  The README mentions a BigBlueButton , Inc. Haven't really looked into it though.
- mekster 7y ago
  "If you don't like it, fix it yourself" approach doesn't really work for many just because it's open source. Why does an open source project has to be mutually exclusive to being a professional product? If the recommended distro is from 4 years ago, people will feel if it's being abandoned and just go look elsewhere.
  - capableweb 7y ago
    > Why does an open source project has to be mutually exclusive to being a professional product? It doesn't, there are plenty of open source professional products. This doesn't seem to be one of them though, as I would expect a company with for-profit motives behind it if that's the case. This seems to be a project that is merely supported by a company to support the development, which is also fine.
kbutler 7y ago
> "alarming...no good excuse...idiotic" You don't have to use it, but your criticism is excessive. As a casual bystander providing nothing but commentary, you really don't get to choose the priorities and schedule of an open source project. They provide software that runs on currently supported platforms, and they are working on 18.04 support - sounds like it is the focus current development effort for the next release: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/bigbluebutton-dev/qWjV2zoc4hY/Kyr8OnPnAwAJ https://groups.google.com/d/msg/bigbluebutton-dev/qWjV2zoc4h...
- f00_ 7y ago
  especially for some thing that is free

by wolrah 7y ago

capableweb 7y ago

Seems like a set of ~8 or something core contributors working on this open source project. You talk about it like it's a professional product. Ubuntu 16.04 is still everywhere and I'm sure they have their reasons for not having time to deploy on multiple platforms / architectures / beta lines in order to test changes. I think you best shot at fixing this problem that has "no good excuse" and using it would be "idiotic" would be to contribute yourself. The least you can do is open a thoughtful issue asking the same things you asked here, but in a way better tone. Even better would be to contribute code but eh, Java. Edit: another comment in this thread: "That readme is 17months old. and the reference to 16.04 is atleast 3 years old. So it may just not have been properly updated." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22611533 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22611533

0az 7y ago
The README mentions a BigBlueButton , Inc. Haven't really looked into it though.
mekster 7y ago
"If you don't like it, fix it yourself" approach doesn't really work for many just because it's open source. Why does an open source project has to be mutually exclusive to being a professional product? If the recommended distro is from 4 years ago, people will feel if it's being abandoned and just go look elsewhere.
- capableweb 7y ago
  > Why does an open source project has to be mutually exclusive to being a professional product? It doesn't, there are plenty of open source professional products. This doesn't seem to be one of them though, as I would expect a company with for-profit motives behind it if that's the case. This seems to be a project that is merely supported by a company to support the development, which is also fine.

kbutler 7y ago

> "alarming...no good excuse...idiotic" You don't have to use it, but your criticism is excessive. As a casual bystander providing nothing but commentary, you really don't get to choose the priorities and schedule of an open source project. They provide software that runs on currently supported platforms, and they are working on 18.04 support - sounds like it is the focus current development effort for the next release: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/bigbluebutton-dev/qWjV2zoc4hY/Kyr8OnPnAwAJ https://groups.google.com/d/msg/bigbluebutton-dev/qWjV2zoc4h...

f00_ 7y ago
especially for some thing that is free