Released Mound Data Manager 0.4.0 final early this morning, just before the DST switch.
If you have no idea what that is, see this post before reading the rest.
Click the above image for a video.
Main features of this release:
- New UI that shows snapshots on the main window
- Importing/exporting of snapshots
- Translatable
The biggest feature is probably the exporting of snapshots. If you want to quickly take your data to another computer or deploy it to multiple systems, you can now easily do so.
Imported snapshots are checked to make sure that the data matches the application. This means that you can not actually modify the snapshot or Mound will refuse to import it. (Technical details: Mound modifies the gzip header when exported and checks it upon import to prevent importing of any random archive.) You can, however, still extract them like regular tar.gz archives to quickly get your data out or use scripted deployments.
If you're interested, give it a try! It's been fairly well-tested since 0.2, and the snapshot logic has not changed much so your data should still be as safe as it always was.
Launchpad source downloads: https://launchpad.net/mound
PPA: https://launchpad.net/~jpeddicord/+archive/mound (ppa:jpeddicord/mound)
If you're feeling productive, why not help out translating Mound Data Manager into your own language? See Launchpad Translations for more information.
Also, congratulations to Paul Tagliamonte on his new role as the team contact for Ubuntu Ohio! It's been a fun couple of years with the Ohio team, and I'm sure Paul's got the skills to make the Ohio team kick some ass.
Any chance you could upload a Karmic package to the PPA?
Matthew:
There is a Karmic package; it's 0.4.0-0~ppa1. :)
Just before, eh? Or perhaps it was during the 11PM immediately AFTER the DST switch, hmmm? :P
Dylan:
The DST switch was at 2am ;)