Re: Future of Appmenu Outside Unity

2013-07-23 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Tuesday, July 23, 2013 11:23:20 PM Ted Gould wrote: > On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 22:23 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > On Tuesday, July 23, 2013 09:00:33 PM Ted Gould wrote: > > > On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 21:01 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > > > Since shortly after Mark announced the global menu [1

Re: Source packages appropriate by default?

2013-07-23 Thread Daniel J Blueman
On 24 July 2013 11:08, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Wednesday, July 24, 2013 11:00:40 AM Daniel J Blueman wrote: >> Perhaps we have two issues here: > >> The 20% additional download due to sources [1] would help both issues, >> but perhaps of bigger impact, trusting the country-level mirror fo

Re: Source packages appropriate by default?

2013-07-23 Thread Daniel J Blueman
Or 90/110K per day per computer for Precise. I guess what was getting me is the additional 6-7MB during install or first update: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise/universe/source/ 4.8M/5.9M http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise/main/source/ 912K/1.1M On 24 July 2013 09:31, S

Re: Source packages appropriate by default?

2013-07-23 Thread Daniel J Blueman
Perhaps we have two issues here: - the download during installs or first index update is 6-7MB extra, which makes a real difference when installing lots of computers - downloads from security.ubuntu.com being slow (eg 1-5KB/s) as it's >500ms away The 20% additional download due to sources [1] wou

Re: Source packages appropriate by default?

2013-07-23 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Wednesday, July 24, 2013 03:46:10 AM Robie Basak wrote: > On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 09:31:15PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > Before we run off and expend a lot more effort on this, I'd like to > > see something other than handwaving that this is really is a > > significant issue. > > [size co

Re: Source packages appropriate by default?

2013-07-23 Thread Robie Basak
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 09:31:15PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > Before we run off and expend a lot more effort on this, I'd like to > see something other than handwaving that this is really is a > significant issue. [size comparisions snipped] My concern is latency, not size. How many round tr

Re: Source packages appropriate by default?

2013-07-23 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Tuesday, July 23, 2013 09:19:36 PM Scott Ritchie wrote: > On 07/23/2013 12:02 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > On Tuesday, July 23, 2013 06:59:43 AM Robie Basak wrote: > >> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 01:51:46AM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > >>> I think most developers would believe the current situ

Re: Future of Appmenu Outside Unity

2013-07-23 Thread Ted Gould
On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 22:23 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Tuesday, July 23, 2013 09:00:33 PM Ted Gould wrote: > > On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 21:01 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > > Since shortly after Mark announced the global menu [1] Kubuntu has shipped > > > plasma-widget-menubar to provide t

Re: Source packages appropriate by default?

2013-07-23 Thread Scott Ritchie
On 07/23/2013 12:02 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Tuesday, July 23, 2013 06:59:43 AM Robie Basak wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 01:51:46AM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: >>> I think most developers would believe the current situation is >>> appropriate. >> >> I disagree. >> >>> By default users

Patch pilot report, 2013-07-24.

2013-07-23 Thread Luke Yelavich
Total requests at start: 53 Bug #1194489 - A newer Debian revision is present in unstable, requested an updated merge. Bug #1204285 - Synced https://code.launchpad.net/~nitink/ubuntu/saucy/ushare/bug-1044024 - Uploaded after converting to a quilt patch. https://code.launchpad.net/~obounaim/ub

Re: Source packages appropriate by default?

2013-07-23 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Wednesday, July 24, 2013 11:00:40 AM Daniel J Blueman wrote: > Perhaps we have two issues here: > The 20% additional download due to sources [1] would help both issues, > but perhaps of bigger impact, trusting the country-level mirror for > the security updates? ... You aren't. Security up

Re: Future of Appmenu Outside Unity

2013-07-23 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Tuesday, July 23, 2013 09:00:33 PM Ted Gould wrote: > On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 21:01 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > Since shortly after Mark announced the global menu [1] Kubuntu has shipped > > plasma-widget-menubar to provide this functionality [2] and not only for > > Qt/KDE, but for Gtk apps

Re: Future of Appmenu Outside Unity

2013-07-23 Thread Ted Gould
On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 21:01 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > Since shortly after Mark announced the global menu [1] Kubuntu has shipped > plasma-widget-menubar to provide this functionality [2] and not only for > Qt/KDE, but for Gtk apps as well [3]. This has served us well on netbooks > for >

Re: Source packages appropriate by default?

2013-07-23 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Tuesday, July 23, 2013 08:21:40 AM Jordon Bedwell wrote: > On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 6:32 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > Assuming add-apt-repository was installed by default, it's close. I think > > something like this might be reasonable (imagine some policykit or > > whatever it is called now

Future of Appmenu Outside Unity

2013-07-23 Thread Scott Kitterman
Since shortly after Mark announced the global menu [1] Kubuntu has shipped plasma-widget-menubar to provide this functionality [2] and not only for Qt/KDE, but for Gtk apps as well [3]. This has served us well on netbooks for three years and I use it myself on a daily basis on a conventional la

Re: xubuntu-devel Digest, Vol 94, Issue 44

2013-07-23 Thread David Manuel Pires
Hi guys. On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:42 PM, wrote: > > Today's Topics: > >1. Package testing - Xubuntu Team (Elfy) > > -- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 20:00:27 +0100 > From: Elfy > To: Xubuntu Development Discussio

Patch pilot 2013-07-23

2013-07-23 Thread Barry Warsaw
51 at start * Helped with problems/questions about python-django-piston * LP: #1203958 (unity-china-photo-scope) Reviewed, needs fixing * LP: #1203931 (unity-china-video-scope) Reviewed, needs fixing * LP: #1201323 (sync python-webob and forward changes to debian) 52 at start signatur

Re: Source packages appropriate by default?

2013-07-23 Thread Jordon Bedwell
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 6:32 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > Assuming add-apt-repository was installed by default, it's close. I think > something like this might be reasonable (imagine some policykit or whatever it > is called now magic here): > > $ sudo apt-get source hello > Reading package lists

Minutes from the Ubuntu Kernel Team meeting, 2013-07-23

2013-07-23 Thread Joseph Salisbury
= Meeting Minutes = [[http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2013/07/23/%23ubuntu-meeting.txt|IRC Log of the meeting.]] [[http://voices.canonical.com/kernelteam|Meeting minutes.]] == Agenda == [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Meeting#Tues, 23 Jul, 2013|20130723 Meeting Agenda]] === ARM Status

Patch pilot report, 2013-07-23

2013-07-23 Thread Martin Pitt
Hello all, During my patch pilot shift I reduced the queue from 77 to 47 today. items: various syncs https://code.launchpad.net/~darkxst/ubuntu/saucy/empathy/lp1203955/+merge/176322: merge, upload https://code.launchpad.net/~gandelman-a/ubuntu/saucy/cheetah/lp1183634/+merge/176128: upload https

Re: Source packages appropriate by default?

2013-07-23 Thread Andreas Moog
On 23.07.2013 12:09, Robie Basak wrote: > It is provided by software-properties-common in more recent releases, > and is seeded on server now. See bug 439566. That is good to know. Given that my server installs are based on LTS releases I only checked the latest LTS. > All this is true, but you

Re: Source packages appropriate by default?

2013-07-23 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Tuesday, July 23, 2013 08:12:16 AM Robie Basak wrote: > On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 03:02:02AM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > So those are a couple of examples of what I think is definitely not what > > we > > want. I'm open to discussion about alternate ways to preserve easy access > > to the s

Re: Source packages appropriate by default?

2013-07-23 Thread Daniel J Blueman
On 23 July 2013 16:24, Andreas Moog wrote: > On 23.07.2013 09:12, Robie Basak wrote: > [...] >> E: You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list >> E: Type "add-apt-repository sources" to do this automatically for you. >> $ sudo add-apt-repository sources >> deb-src lines have been added to

Re: Source packages appropriate by default?

2013-07-23 Thread Robie Basak
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:24:31AM +0200, Andreas Moog wrote: > andreas@j3515:~$ sudo add-apt-repository > The program 'add-apt-repository' is currently not installed. You can > install it by typing: > sudo apt-get install python-software-properties > andreas@j3515:~$ > > add-apt-repository is no

Re: Source packages appropriate by default?

2013-07-23 Thread Stefano Rivera
Hi Daniel (2013.07.23_08:13:47_+0200) > For the other 99% of users, where practicality is more important than > immediate access to source, we end up wasting ~10% of Canonical and > our mirror's bandwidth on the source updates. Can you back that up with evidence? As I (and a few other people) have

Re: Source packages appropriate by default?

2013-07-23 Thread Andreas Moog
On 23.07.2013 09:12, Robie Basak wrote: [...] > E: You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list > E: Type "add-apt-repository sources" to do this automatically for you. > $ sudo add-apt-repository sources > deb-src lines have been added to your sources.list. > Now type "apt-get update", and

Re: Source packages appropriate by default?

2013-07-23 Thread Robie Basak
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 03:02:02AM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > So those are a couple of examples of what I think is definitely not what we > want. I'm open to discussion about alternate ways to preserve easy access to > the source. How about: $ sudo apt-get source hello Reading package lis

Re: Source packages appropriate by default?

2013-07-23 Thread Robie Basak
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 01:51:46AM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > I think most developers would believe the current situation is appropriate. I disagree. > By default users have the same access to source and binary packages and for a > free software distribution, that is the ethically correct

Re: Source packages appropriate by default?

2013-07-23 Thread Daniel J Blueman
(pardon the top-posting) I think the slight reduction in ethics (relevant mainly to developers) is a good trade to help deployability in the real world. We'll leave sources enabled by default for development releases. For the other 99% of users, where practicality is more important than immediate

Re: Source packages appropriate by default?

2013-07-23 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Tuesday, July 23, 2013 06:59:43 AM Robie Basak wrote: > On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 01:51:46AM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > I think most developers would believe the current situation is > > appropriate. > > I disagree. > > > By default users have the same access to source and binary packages