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Heya people,

It’s been awhile since I’ve posted anything. As George have mentioned, there has been tremendous progress on Kusu. Alot of it is due to our rather strict adherence to the Agile Methodology. Using Scrum techniques and having supporting infrastructure such as fuss-free builds helps alot too. And talking about fuss-free builds, I would like to talk about the one tool, which Mike had trouble bootstrapping on Gentoo , that is essential for creating Kusu builds: the boot-media-tool ...

The team does their development on Fedora Core 6. I run Gentoo on my notebook, which is great for ssh-ing into my workstation and VMs to develop. When working from home I get less-than-optimal latency to the office. And my ssh sessions get disconnect after 30-minutes of inactivity, a mild annoyance when some of my windows disconnect while I’m intensely hacking away.

I decided to get the development environment set up on my Gentoo machine. This has led me to explore some of the requirements ...

Hi, my name is Mike and I’m the freshest member of the Project Kusu team. This is a Python project, and I’m still at the early stages in my Python career, so I’ll be making lots of newbie mistakes. I’ll try to write about my growing pains, though my posting may be a sporadic.

Greetings true believers!

I’m George Goh, one of your friendly neighbourhood cluster monkeys. Najib, our lead ape, has granted me access to blog here about general things happening in the OSGDC, and more specifically, Project Kusu and the components that I maintain, so let’s get things rolling… .

Here at OSGDC, we adopt the SCRUM methodology(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_%28development%29) to keep things tight and moving fast. We have recently ended our third full ...

From left: mike, george and hirwan.

From left: ltsai, songnian (our esteemed CEO), najib and laurence.