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Re:Three Months to Scale NewsBlur by btipling on Sunday March 17, 2013 @11:25PM (#5392256)
> I am not a web developer so that can partially explain my struggle with fabric, Django and multitude of webdev and devops modules that you use.

GitHub is not an app store. You can't expect to "install" a software as a service's code base. Open sourcing a project is opening it up to engineers, providing a self-hosted option on the other hand should be an easy to install alternative that probably requires another full-time engineer to handle as it needs to come with ability to upgrade, get logs, support and documents...

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Re:Three Months to Scale NewsBlur by tmzt on Monday March 18, 2013 @12:28AM (#5392452)
Seems like there's a need for a cloud infrastructure/language independent packaging format, to build a "github of installable applications"

Maybe container images that can also be used as bootable images?

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Re:Three Months to Scale NewsBlur by ryen on Monday March 18, 2013 @12:44AM (#5392510)
> Seems like there's a need for a cloud infrastructure/language independent packaging format, to build a "github of installable applications"

I think Chef and Puppet try to fill that role, somewhat

Edit: actually, this recent HN discussion looks promising https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5392041

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Re:Three Months to Scale NewsBlur by jzelinskie on Monday March 18, 2013 @12:53AM (#5392540)
Something like JuJu?
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