Re: This needs attention

2014-05-28 Thread Gabor Toth
All right, what I see we went onto the track of working together to handle
the bug rather than fighting each other.  That is great!

I personally haven't encountered this particular bug, but I'm glad it is
being handled.  If I can be of any assistance please let me know.

Ml,

Gabor Toth

gabor...@gmail.com

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On May 28, 2014 5:21 AM, chris hermansen clherman...@gmail.com wrote:

 Nicholas and list,

 On May 27, 2014 6:09 PM, Nicholas Skaggs nicholas.ska...@canonical.com
 wrote:
 
  On 05/27/2014 03:51 PM, C de-Avillez wrote:
 
  On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 2:05 PM, Alberto Salvia Novella
  es204904...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  On 27/05/14 16:56, C de-Avillez wrote:
 
  A technical opinion on a technical issue will rule out every other
  opinion until proved wrong.
 
 
  Summarizing: for confirming this bug, you need to provide a series of
 steps
  that will break GRUB consistently.
 
  Till then the appropriate status for the report is opinion.
 
  Actually, even then I would rather have a new bug opened. This one is
  done and gone :-)
 
  Well, I've been under the weather and traveling and didn't see this post
 until now. Many thanks to those level-headed folks who stepped into the
 discussion here.
 
  As to the bug, if it is affecting you, the best thing you can do is to
 recreate the problem. After the problem has happened again, use ubuntu-bug
 to file a new bug and describe how you arrived at the problem. Try and
 simplify creating the problem to isolate what is triggering it. This is all
 work you as an end-user can do that greatly helps a developer actually
 solve the bug. The next time a bug of yours is marked as invalid or
 opinion, take that as an oppurtunity to file a more complete bug report
 that will allow someone to properly confirm it; learn from it. Instead of
 attacking a developer, ask someone to help you understand what data is
 missing / needed and how you can obtain it. Stay constructive!

 Not to gainsay Nicholas or anyone else but one important thing to keep in
 mind here is that this problem / configuration error / whatever BORKS the
 machine, if I am reading correctly.

 Ie no friendly Ubuntu environment to run ubuntu-bug or any of those other
 great diagnostic tools.

 So in this kind of situation when someone is panicking because their newly
 upgraded computer now fails to boot, it seems to me worthwhile to have some
 kind of help to get them through the rough patch.

 Just my 2¢ worth.
 
  Finally, it's important to heed the advice of those who can help you. As
 Scott side, software can be furstrating, and working within a community can
 be too. Let's keep the CoC in mind; we are all here because we care about
 making ubuntu better.
 

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Re: This needs attention

2014-05-28 Thread Brian Murray
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 09:05:40PM +0200, Alberto Salvia Novella wrote:
 On 27/05/14 16:56, C de-Avillez wrote:
 A technical opinion on a technical issue will rule out every other
 opinion until proved wrong.
 
 Summarizing: for confirming this bug, you need to provide a series
 of steps that will break GRUB consistently.
 
 Till then the appropriate status for the report is opinion.

I'm not sure that is how I would have summarized Carlos's email.

One particular take away from this issue is that not every symptom of a
problem, e.g. error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found, is
due to the same reason. Because of this I personally try to modify bug
titles such that they are more specific as I learn more information
about why the particular reporter had the problem. So if I see an
ubuntu-release-upgrader bug titled Can't upgrade to 14.04, I will
work on changing the title so it describes the particular reporter's
issue. Hopefully, this prevents multiple people who can't upgrade from
all commenting on the same bug report and also thinking the same fix
will work for them.

Additionally, another bit of advice is that although it is more work
(especially if you can't use ubuntu-bug) it is best to open a bug report
for your specific issue rather than assuming that another bug is exactly
the same as yours. However, you might add a comment to a bug similar to
yours saying I think I am experiencing the same issue in bug 12345.

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Re: This needs attention

2014-05-28 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella

On 28/05/14 14:58, Brian Murray wrote:

I personally try to modify bug
titles such that they are more specific as I learn more information
about why the particular reporter had the problem.


For me this sounds like an important step when triaging bugs.


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 For the record, you all have managed to convince me the signal to 
noise ratio

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Re: This needs attention

2014-05-27 Thread Gabor Toth
Hi,

I feel like I need to say something to this conversation as I found this
subject quite disturbing.  As part of my work I install Ubuntu systems to
customers and use Ubuntu for long years now, having been through almost all
distros of Ubuntu.  I have done some testing too and helped on bug squad
some.  These days did not have that much time to contribute, but I do my
best as you guys.

While the discussion on this forum seems to be a lot of back and forth this
is nothing to what is going on on the actual bug report and forum there.
 Reading it through I do not have a doubt in my mind that this IS an actual
bug even though I am not effected by it.  If one does a dist upgrade and
his system was working before and after the upgrade going through without
any warning it lives him with an unusable (even though fixable) system it
is something you would not expect dist upgrade to do - thus it is a bug,
per definition of a bug.  A part of a system does something that you do not
expect it to do and of course it is quite high priority since en entire
system becomes broken and it apparently effects multiple users.

There is something else quite disturbing though.  There seem to be one
person in the programmer side of the team that keeps disagreeing with the
everyone else and is able to push her own opinion (which seems very wrong
by the way) in front of the entire community.  When you look at the bug
report the status is being set back and forth and that one person
apparently just cancelling this bug while it is reported by a number of
others.

This very point is the main concern on this whole thing.  If Ubuntu is a
community, which it should be, then this should not ever happen.  One
person's opinion should not over rule everyone else's opinion.  I am not
sure who she is, but this whole process was not something that you could
call an executive decision.  Perhaps she had no capacity, knowledge, or
interest to fix this bug and thus wanted to put it under the carpet for
whatever reason.  And the reason does not even matter here!  It is a
community and this would be a point when others could step in an offer
their expertise and time and do fix the bug.  However with her actions she
did not only stepped down, but also stopped others to work on it since she
simple cancelled this bug out entirely.  And this is not some little
design point or some minor program we are talking about but either grub or
the dist upgrade process that has a functionality which should not be that
way to be able called workable.

Per what I see something is working if it requires no attention in the
future and it just does what it should.  This is per definition working.
 Anything else is a bug.

Now, if I install an Ubuntu system, say on a customers computer, and make
that system a workable system (which sometimes might require some custom
tuning due to no out of box support for some sort of hardware) then I would
think that this is a workable system and the user, with no knowledge of
command prompt, not knowing what grub was and if thinking that dpkg was
some special ice cream should not be able to break a fully workable system
just by clicking on a button of dist upgrade and entering her own password.
And again, in some of the mentioned cases there was not even any manual
config and handling of the system but was a clear automated install broken
by a simple upgrade.

I personally think that we as a community need to look at this issue and I
am not talking about the bug itself (which needs to be fixed too) but the
issue of one person's opinion could cancel out (and thus enrage) other
people of the community with living an issue hanging in the air with no
apparent way of solving the different opinions in any way shape or form.
 It should not be that who has a higher authority that is right no matter
how wrong she is.

Is there anyone at canonical that can take a look at this?  Seems a
correction of this particular programmer needed on dealing with community
raised bugs specially because she won't be able to work like this with the
rest of the guys if she does not let them propose solutions and fixes but
trying to silence them.

With Kind Regards,

Gabor Toth

Phone: +45-2163-4983
Skype: gabor.me

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Re: This needs attention

2014-05-27 Thread Phill Whiteside
Hi Gabor,

I have kept silent on this issue, but I give you a huge +1 for putting into
words some of the frustration I have seen whereby one person continually
cancels out what is a clear issue for many others.

Regards,

Phill.


On 27 May 2014 07:35, Gabor Toth gabor...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi,

 I feel like I need to say something to this conversation as I found this
 subject quite disturbing.  As part of my work I install Ubuntu systems to
 customers and use Ubuntu for long years now, having been through almost all
 distros of Ubuntu.  I have done some testing too and helped on bug squad
 some.  These days did not have that much time to contribute, but I do my
 best as you guys.

 While the discussion on this forum seems to be a lot of back and forth this
 is nothing to what is going on on the actual bug report and forum there.
  Reading it through I do not have a doubt in my mind that this IS an actual
 bug even though I am not effected by it.  If one does a dist upgrade and
 his system was working before and after the upgrade going through without
 any warning it lives him with an unusable (even though fixable) system it
 is something you would not expect dist upgrade to do - thus it is a bug,
 per definition of a bug.  A part of a system does something that you do not
 expect it to do and of course it is quite high priority since en entire
 system becomes broken and it apparently effects multiple users.

 There is something else quite disturbing though.  There seem to be one
 person in the programmer side of the team that keeps disagreeing with the
 everyone else and is able to push her own opinion (which seems very wrong
 by the way) in front of the entire community.  When you look at the bug
 report the status is being set back and forth and that one person
 apparently just cancelling this bug while it is reported by a number of
 others.

 This very point is the main concern on this whole thing.  If Ubuntu is a
 community, which it should be, then this should not ever happen.  One
 person's opinion should not over rule everyone else's opinion.  I am not
 sure who she is, but this whole process was not something that you could
 call an executive decision.  Perhaps she had no capacity, knowledge, or
 interest to fix this bug and thus wanted to put it under the carpet for
 whatever reason.  And the reason does not even matter here!  It is a
 community and this would be a point when others could step in an offer
 their expertise and time and do fix the bug.  However with her actions she
 did not only stepped down, but also stopped others to work on it since she
 simple cancelled this bug out entirely.  And this is not some little
 design point or some minor program we are talking about but either grub or
 the dist upgrade process that has a functionality which should not be that
 way to be able called workable.

 Per what I see something is working if it requires no attention in the
 future and it just does what it should.  This is per definition working.
  Anything else is a bug.

 Now, if I install an Ubuntu system, say on a customers computer, and make
 that system a workable system (which sometimes might require some custom
 tuning due to no out of box support for some sort of hardware) then I would
 think that this is a workable system and the user, with no knowledge of
 command prompt, not knowing what grub was and if thinking that dpkg was
 some special ice cream should not be able to break a fully workable system
 just by clicking on a button of dist upgrade and entering her own password.
 And again, in some of the mentioned cases there was not even any manual
 config and handling of the system but was a clear automated install broken
 by a simple upgrade.

 I personally think that we as a community need to look at this issue and I
 am not talking about the bug itself (which needs to be fixed too) but the
 issue of one person's opinion could cancel out (and thus enrage) other
 people of the community with living an issue hanging in the air with no
 apparent way of solving the different opinions in any way shape or form.
  It should not be that who has a higher authority that is right no matter
 how wrong she is.

 Is there anyone at canonical that can take a look at this?  Seems a
 correction of this particular programmer needed on dealing with community
 raised bugs specially because she won't be able to work like this with the
 rest of the guys if she does not let them propose solutions and fixes but
 trying to silence them.

 With Kind Regards,

 Gabor Toth

 Phone: +45-2163-4983
 Skype: gabor.me

 Copenhagen, Denmark


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Re: This needs attention

2014-05-27 Thread Nio Wiklund
Hi Gabor and Phill,

I add another +1 for putting into words some of the frustration I have
seen whereby one person continually cancels out what is a clear issue
for many others.

Best regards
Nio

2014-05-27 09:03, Phill Whiteside skrev:
 Hi Gabor,
 
 I have kept silent on this issue, but I give you a huge +1 for putting into
 words some of the frustration I have seen whereby one person continually
 cancels out what is a clear issue for many others.
 
 Regards,
 
 Phill.
 
 
 On 27 May 2014 07:35, Gabor Toth gabor...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 Hi,

 I feel like I need to say something to this conversation as I found this
 subject quite disturbing.  As part of my work I install Ubuntu systems to
 customers and use Ubuntu for long years now, having been through almost all
 distros of Ubuntu.  I have done some testing too and helped on bug squad
 some.  These days did not have that much time to contribute, but I do my
 best as you guys.

 While the discussion on this forum seems to be a lot of back and forth this
 is nothing to what is going on on the actual bug report and forum there.
  Reading it through I do not have a doubt in my mind that this IS an actual
 bug even though I am not effected by it.  If one does a dist upgrade and
 his system was working before and after the upgrade going through without
 any warning it lives him with an unusable (even though fixable) system it
 is something you would not expect dist upgrade to do - thus it is a bug,
 per definition of a bug.  A part of a system does something that you do not
 expect it to do and of course it is quite high priority since en entire
 system becomes broken and it apparently effects multiple users.

 There is something else quite disturbing though.  There seem to be one
 person in the programmer side of the team that keeps disagreeing with the
 everyone else and is able to push her own opinion (which seems very wrong
 by the way) in front of the entire community.  When you look at the bug
 report the status is being set back and forth and that one person
 apparently just cancelling this bug while it is reported by a number of
 others.

 This very point is the main concern on this whole thing.  If Ubuntu is a
 community, which it should be, then this should not ever happen.  One
 person's opinion should not over rule everyone else's opinion.  I am not
 sure who she is, but this whole process was not something that you could
 call an executive decision.  Perhaps she had no capacity, knowledge, or
 interest to fix this bug and thus wanted to put it under the carpet for
 whatever reason.  And the reason does not even matter here!  It is a
 community and this would be a point when others could step in an offer
 their expertise and time and do fix the bug.  However with her actions she
 did not only stepped down, but also stopped others to work on it since she
 simple cancelled this bug out entirely.  And this is not some little
 design point or some minor program we are talking about but either grub or
 the dist upgrade process that has a functionality which should not be that
 way to be able called workable.

 Per what I see something is working if it requires no attention in the
 future and it just does what it should.  This is per definition working.
  Anything else is a bug.

 Now, if I install an Ubuntu system, say on a customers computer, and make
 that system a workable system (which sometimes might require some custom
 tuning due to no out of box support for some sort of hardware) then I would
 think that this is a workable system and the user, with no knowledge of
 command prompt, not knowing what grub was and if thinking that dpkg was
 some special ice cream should not be able to break a fully workable system
 just by clicking on a button of dist upgrade and entering her own password.
 And again, in some of the mentioned cases there was not even any manual
 config and handling of the system but was a clear automated install broken
 by a simple upgrade.

 I personally think that we as a community need to look at this issue and I
 am not talking about the bug itself (which needs to be fixed too) but the
 issue of one person's opinion could cancel out (and thus enrage) other
 people of the community with living an issue hanging in the air with no
 apparent way of solving the different opinions in any way shape or form.
  It should not be that who has a higher authority that is right no matter
 how wrong she is.

 Is there anyone at canonical that can take a look at this?  Seems a
 correction of this particular programmer needed on dealing with community
 raised bugs specially because she won't be able to work like this with the
 rest of the guys if she does not let them propose solutions and fixes but
 trying to silence them.

 With Kind Regards,

 Gabor Toth

 Phone: +45-2163-4983
 Skype: gabor.me

 Copenhagen, Denmark


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Re: This needs attention

2014-05-27 Thread C de-Avillez
(I am using Gabor's email to answer a series of points in many emails.
I am just using his email because it is much clearer, complete, and
nice than some of the previous emails.)

On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 1:35 AM, Gabor Toth gabor...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi,

 I feel like I need to say something to this conversation as I found this
 subject quite disturbing.  As part of my work I install Ubuntu systems to
 customers and use Ubuntu for long years now, having been through almost all
 distros of Ubuntu.  I have done some testing too and helped on bug squad
 some.  These days did not have that much time to contribute, but I do my
 best as you guys.

I also find the OP's comments quite disturbing.

I am also curious: have you had this issue yourself? I hear around
that this is a critical bug, that the skies will fall if it is not
fixed, that everybody is affected by it, etc. But I personally do not
know anyone that has been affected, and I have not had this issue
myself, on all of my 26 upgrades to Trusty. And yes, I do have some
systems with more than one drive; but none with other OSes installed.


 While the discussion on this forum seems to be a lot of back and forth this
 is nothing to what is going on on the actual bug report and forum there.
  Reading it through I do not have a doubt in my mind that this IS an actual
 bug even though I am not effected by it.

I beg to differ. If -- and this is based *only* on the original issue
in the bug -- the user had two different installs of Grub on two
different disk drives, and (for whatever reason, however it may have
happened) the Grub configuration got mixed/lost/confused, *then* this
(original) error will pop up.

 If one does a dist upgrade and
 his system was working before and after the upgrade going through without
 any warning it lives him with an unusable (even though fixable) system it
 is something you would not expect dist upgrade to do - thus it is a bug,
 per definition of a bug.

No. Code changes. If (and, again, discussing the *original* issue in
the bug) you had multiple installs of one thing, and the system does
*not* know bout these multiple installs, then it is not a bug. If is
an user error. In this case, it was caused by a stale copy of Grub
being run. If what I just said does not apply, then it is a
*different* bug.

A part of a system does something that you do not
 expect it to do and of course it is quite high priority since en entire
 system becomes broken and it apparently effects multiple users.

 There is something else quite disturbing though.  There seem to be one
 person in the programmer side of the team that keeps disagreeing with the
 everyone else and is able to push her own opinion (which seems very wrong
 by the way) in front of the entire community.

Perhaps because he knows what he was asking for and doing, as opposed
from almost every other commenter in the bug. Please keep in mind that
a bug is a *technical* report about an error/failure. It will be
looked at by *technical* people. As such, It HAS to have technical
data.

  When you look at the bug
 report the status is being set back and forth and that one person
 apparently just cancelling this bug while it is reported by a number of
 others.

And stating why. And being disregarded. I personally would have put
the bug as OPINION a long time ago. The *only* thing that may still be
done is explain, in the bug description, WHY, and WHAT can be done.

Let me try to clear some (possible) misconceptions about bugs, and how
we deal with them (both for triaging, and for fixing).

The first two are *dogmas*. We will not change them.

* one issue per (bug) report
* one (bug) report per issue

This means a Launchpad bug should describe one, and only one, issue.
If multiple issues are shown in one single bug report, then they HAVE
to be broken down to different Launchpad bugs. This is not required
because we are mean (developers|triagers), but because we need to be
able to backtrack a fix to a bug (and vice-versa). If the fix
introduces a (new) failure, then we need to be able to pinpoint it to
the correct bug report. This would not happen if we have multiple
issues per bug.

In this specific bug, we have at least two different issues being
conflated; we also have the original reporter's issue being shown as a
failure (user's, or perhaps grub's); a way to fix it was provided
early on (and it should be clear that the issue came about mostly
because, at some point in time, the user used the wrong command
sequence to update Grub).

As such, the original report *has* to be closed.

Many times throughout the hundreds of comments Phillip stated that. I
will also note that I personally will tend to trust Phillip: he
usually knows what he is talking about and, certainly, he knows more
than I do on Grub.

* When you open a bug, please add the (minimum) required data.
Ideally, *NEVER* open a bug by hand (almost all of the opened-by-hand
bugs miss the minimum required data).

Phillip, while 

Re: This needs attention

2014-05-27 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella

On 27/05/14 16:56, C de-Avillez wrote:

A technical opinion on a technical issue will rule out every other
opinion until proved wrong.


Summarizing: for confirming this bug, you need to provide a series of 
steps that will break GRUB consistently.


Till then the appropriate status for the report is opinion.

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Re: This needs attention

2014-05-27 Thread C de-Avillez
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 2:05 PM, Alberto Salvia Novella
es204904...@gmail.com wrote:
 On 27/05/14 16:56, C de-Avillez wrote:

 A technical opinion on a technical issue will rule out every other
 opinion until proved wrong.


 Summarizing: for confirming this bug, you need to provide a series of steps
 that will break GRUB consistently.

 Till then the appropriate status for the report is opinion.


Actually, even then I would rather have a new bug opened. This one is
done and gone :-)

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Re: This needs attention

2014-05-27 Thread Nicholas Skaggs

On 05/27/2014 03:51 PM, C de-Avillez wrote:

On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 2:05 PM, Alberto Salvia Novella
es204904...@gmail.com wrote:

On 27/05/14 16:56, C de-Avillez wrote:

A technical opinion on a technical issue will rule out every other
opinion until proved wrong.


Summarizing: for confirming this bug, you need to provide a series of steps
that will break GRUB consistently.

Till then the appropriate status for the report is opinion.


Actually, even then I would rather have a new bug opened. This one is
done and gone :-)

Well, I've been under the weather and traveling and didn't see this post 
until now. Many thanks to those level-headed folks who stepped into the 
discussion here.


As to the bug, if it is affecting you, the best thing you can do is to 
recreate the problem. After the problem has happened again, use 
ubuntu-bug to file a new bug and describe how you arrived at the 
problem. Try and simplify creating the problem to isolate what is 
triggering it. This is all work you as an end-user can do that greatly 
helps a developer actually solve the bug. The next time a bug of yours 
is marked as invalid or opinion, take that as an oppurtunity to file a 
more complete bug report that will allow someone to properly confirm it; 
learn from it. Instead of attacking a developer, ask someone to help you 
understand what data is missing / needed and how you can obtain it. Stay 
constructive!


Finally, it's important to heed the advice of those who can help you. As 
Scott side, software can be furstrating, and working within a community 
can be too. Let's keep the CoC in mind; we are all here because we care 
about making ubuntu better.


Nicholas

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Re: This needs attention

2014-05-27 Thread chris hermansen
Nicholas and list,

On May 27, 2014 6:09 PM, Nicholas Skaggs nicholas.ska...@canonical.com
wrote:

 On 05/27/2014 03:51 PM, C de-Avillez wrote:

 On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 2:05 PM, Alberto Salvia Novella
 es204904...@gmail.com wrote:

 On 27/05/14 16:56, C de-Avillez wrote:

 A technical opinion on a technical issue will rule out every other
 opinion until proved wrong.


 Summarizing: for confirming this bug, you need to provide a series of
steps
 that will break GRUB consistently.

 Till then the appropriate status for the report is opinion.

 Actually, even then I would rather have a new bug opened. This one is
 done and gone :-)

 Well, I've been under the weather and traveling and didn't see this post
until now. Many thanks to those level-headed folks who stepped into the
discussion here.

 As to the bug, if it is affecting you, the best thing you can do is to
recreate the problem. After the problem has happened again, use ubuntu-bug
to file a new bug and describe how you arrived at the problem. Try and
simplify creating the problem to isolate what is triggering it. This is all
work you as an end-user can do that greatly helps a developer actually
solve the bug. The next time a bug of yours is marked as invalid or
opinion, take that as an oppurtunity to file a more complete bug report
that will allow someone to properly confirm it; learn from it. Instead of
attacking a developer, ask someone to help you understand what data is
missing / needed and how you can obtain it. Stay constructive!

Not to gainsay Nicholas or anyone else but one important thing to keep in
mind here is that this problem / configuration error / whatever BORKS the
machine, if I am reading correctly.

Ie no friendly Ubuntu environment to run ubuntu-bug or any of those other
great diagnostic tools.

So in this kind of situation when someone is panicking because their newly
upgraded computer now fails to boot, it seems to me worthwhile to have some
kind of help to get them through the rough patch.

Just my 2¢ worth.

 Finally, it's important to heed the advice of those who can help you. As
Scott side, software can be furstrating, and working within a community can
be too. Let's keep the CoC in mind; we are all here because we care about
making ubuntu better.


+1 to that.
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Re: This needs attention

2014-05-26 Thread Samuel Gabbay
This has to be fixed immediately. As users are most probably going to start
flooding the askubuntu website about this!


2014-05-25 18:36 GMT-04:00 Matteo Sisti Sette matteosistise...@gmail.com:

 Hi,

 If you care about ubuntu quality you need to have a look at this:
 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977

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Re: This needs attention

2014-05-26 Thread Elfy

On 26/05/14 14:11, Samuel Gabbay wrote:

This has to be fixed immediately. As users are most probably going to start
flooding the askubuntu website about this!


And?

If you want to fix it immediately then no-one will stop you.

Mailing this list with petulant replies like this won't help.

2014-05-25 18:36 GMT-04:00 Matteo Sisti Sette matteosistise...@gmail.com:


Hi,

If you care about ubuntu quality you need to have a look at this:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977

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Re: This needs attention

2014-05-26 Thread Thomas Ward




*Sent from my iPhone.  Please excuse any typos, as they are likely to happen by 
accident.*

 On May 26, 2014, at 10:54, Alberto Salvia Novella es204904...@gmail.com 
 wrote:
 
 On 26/05/14 00:36, Matteo Sisti Sette wrote:
 If you care about ubuntu quality you need to have a look at this:
 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977
 
 Because we already have a system for handling bugs and set importances for 
 them, notice that commenting in individual ones in this mailing list adds no 
 value at all.
 
 

+1 to this.  There is already a triage procedure in place and commenting on the 
individual bugs here doesn't help much.

 
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Re: This needs attention

2014-05-26 Thread Matteo Sisti Sette
The most dangerous thing is not even the bug itself, but the fact that 
there is an idiot who keeps claiming that it shouldn't even be fixed, 
and changing the status of the bug report to anthing but confirmed 
(invalid, then opinion, now won't fix).


The bug was reported in march and actions could have been taken before 
(e.g. freezing the upgrade until fixed) to limit the damage it's doing 
to thousands of users...


And also it definitely can and must be fixed.

On 26/05/14 15:11, Samuel Gabbay wrote:

This has to be fixed immediately. As users are most probably going to
start flooding the askubuntu website about this!


2014-05-25 18:36 GMT-04:00 Matteo Sisti Sette
matteosistise...@gmail.com mailto:matteosistise...@gmail.com:

Hi,

If you care about ubuntu quality you need to have a look at this:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/__ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/__1289977
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977

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Re: This needs attention

2014-05-26 Thread Matteo Sisti Sette

On 27/05/14 00:19, Matteo Sisti Sette wrote:

The most dangerous thing is not even the bug itself, but the fact that
there is an idiot who keeps claiming that it shouldn't even be fixed,
and changing the status of the bug report to anthing but confirmed
(invalid, then opinion, now won't fix).


Oh great, and now he has even locked the status so people cannot change 
it back.


That man should be revoked the permissions to manage bugs.
All  the idiotic claims he has made have been proved wrong (just in case 
it was not evident enough)


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Re: This needs attention

2014-05-26 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella

El 27/05/14 00:19, Matteo Sisti Sette escribió:

If you care about ubuntu quality you need to have a look at this:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/__ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/__1289977


Brian; as Ubuntu Bug Master; could you please give your opinion in this 
report, so everybody can stop this long argument?


Thank you.



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Re: This needs attention

2014-05-26 Thread Thomas Ward
If I may make a suggestion, can we all just calm down on this,

Matteo, your posting to a list, going on the offensive against someone and 
apparently getting very annoyed at it.  That much is evident by the overall 
tone of your messages.  My suggestion is to calm down, and relax a little.

This may be a bug, but getting angry over it or the actions of others on this 
mailing list isn't helping anyone.

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 On May 26, 2014, at 18:22, Matteo Sisti Sette matteosistise...@gmail.com 
 wrote:
 
 On 27/05/14 00:19, Matteo Sisti Sette wrote:
 The most dangerous thing is not even the bug itself, but the fact that
 there is an idiot who keeps claiming that it shouldn't even be fixed,
 and changing the status of the bug report to anthing but confirmed
 (invalid, then opinion, now won't fix).
 
 Oh great, and now he has even locked the status so people cannot change it 
 back.
 
 That man should be revoked the permissions to manage bugs.
 All  the idiotic claims he has made have been proved wrong (just in case it 
 was not evident enough)
 
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Re: This needs attention

2014-05-26 Thread Matteo Sisti Sette

Ok,
I'm calm and relaxed now. Thanks.

Sorry for the offensive language. It's just a matter of replacing a word 
or two in my email and the meaning remains intact, though.


If you have a look at the recent discussion in the bug report and 
especially the changes made by Phillip Susi, I think you will understand 
the reasons why I (together with one or two more users) felt enraged.


By the way, I had already got my broken system fixed (thanks to the 
contribution of other affected users who took the time to report the 
issue and describe the steps they took to revert the damage) and I now 
know what to do the next time the bug strikes me; so, I could have just 
looked away and forgotten about it. If I spent my time replying to the 
bug report and writing to this list to draw the insane - whops, sorry 
again - incorrect - behavior of a developer/triager to your attention, 
it was in an effort to do my best to prevent other thousands of users 
from falling victim of the same issue.


Regards,
m.

On 27/05/14 02:03, Thomas Ward wrote:

If I may make a suggestion, can we all just calm down on this,

Matteo, your posting to a list, going on the offensive against someone and 
apparently getting very annoyed at it.  That much is evident by the overall 
tone of your messages.  My suggestion is to calm down, and relax a little.

This may be a bug, but getting angry over it or the actions of others on this 
mailing list isn't helping anyone.

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On May 26, 2014, at 18:22, Matteo Sisti Sette matteosistise...@gmail.com 
wrote:


On 27/05/14 00:19, Matteo Sisti Sette wrote:
The most dangerous thing is not even the bug itself, but the fact that
there is an idiot who keeps claiming that it shouldn't even be fixed,
and changing the status of the bug report to anthing but confirmed
(invalid, then opinion, now won't fix).


Oh great, and now he has even locked the status so people cannot change it back.

That man should be revoked the permissions to manage bugs.
All  the idiotic claims he has made have been proved wrong (just in case it was 
not evident enough)

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Re: This needs attention

2014-05-26 Thread Scott Kitterman
You can't quit can you?

Many developers, such as Phillip (and myself) are volunteers and are doing our 
best to help make Ubuntu better.  Hostile behavior such as yours makes Ubuntu 
development a lot less enticing as a way to spend my free time.  It's also 
highly correlated in my experience with people who can be safely ignored.

Not only is it counter productive to your immediate goal of getting a bug 
looked at (I actually looked at the bug in question and gave up because it was 
too painful to read), but it compromises you ability more generally to be an 
effective member of the Ubuntu community.

http://www.ubuntu.com/about/about-ubuntu/conduct is not just a set of empty 
platitudes.  It's an essential set of guidance to making a global scale 
project such as Ubuntu work.  Please review it and consider how to align your 
interactions in the Ubuntu community with it.  I know this is not easy 
sometimes (I find it a challenge frequently) but both you and the project will 
be better off if you do.

Scott K

On Tuesday, May 27, 2014 02:34:46 Matteo Sisti Sette wrote:
 Ok,
 I'm calm and relaxed now. Thanks.
 
 Sorry for the offensive language. It's just a matter of replacing a word
 or two in my email and the meaning remains intact, though.
 
 If you have a look at the recent discussion in the bug report and
 especially the changes made by Phillip Susi, I think you will understand
 the reasons why I (together with one or two more users) felt enraged.
 
 By the way, I had already got my broken system fixed (thanks to the
 contribution of other affected users who took the time to report the
 issue and describe the steps they took to revert the damage) and I now
 know what to do the next time the bug strikes me; so, I could have just
 looked away and forgotten about it. If I spent my time replying to the
 bug report and writing to this list to draw the insane - whops, sorry
 again - incorrect - behavior of a developer/triager to your attention,
 it was in an effort to do my best to prevent other thousands of users
 from falling victim of the same issue.
 
 Regards,
 m.
 
 On 27/05/14 02:03, Thomas Ward wrote:
  If I may make a suggestion, can we all just calm down on this,
  
  Matteo, your posting to a list, going on the offensive against someone and
  apparently getting very annoyed at it.  That much is evident by the
  overall tone of your messages.  My suggestion is to calm down, and relax
  a little.
  
  This may be a bug, but getting angry over it or the actions of others on
  this mailing list isn't helping anyone.
  
  --
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  LP:~teward
  
  On May 26, 2014, at 18:22, Matteo Sisti Sette 
matteosistise...@gmail.com wrote:
  On 27/05/14 00:19, Matteo Sisti Sette wrote:
  The most dangerous thing is not even the bug itself, but the fact that
  there is an idiot who keeps claiming that it shouldn't even be fixed,
  and changing the status of the bug report to anthing but confirmed
  (invalid, then opinion, now won't fix).
  
  Oh great, and now he has even locked the status so people cannot change
  it back.
  
  That man should be revoked the permissions to manage bugs.
  All  the idiotic claims he has made have been proved wrong (just in case
  it was not evident enough)
  
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Re: This needs attention

2014-05-26 Thread Phill Whiteside
But, of course, with the bug being reported before release, it may have
been in the release notes that no body reads, But it could have been if any
of the release team actually checked :D

It is an interesting bug as people try to say 'It is user error' when the
the users are saying 'it's dev error'... bottom line? it's a mess up on
grub. It has the commands and it can not handle them. if it says sudo
grub. Then it is grub, end of story for those
trying to wrigglle out of it. grup is in charge,

Regards,

Phill.


On 27 May 2014 02:03, Scott Kitterman ubu...@kitterman.com wrote:

 You can't quit can you?

 Many developers, such as Phillip (and myself) are volunteers and are doing
 our
 best to help make Ubuntu better.  Hostile behavior such as yours makes
 Ubuntu
 development a lot less enticing as a way to spend my free time.  It's also
 highly correlated in my experience with people who can be safely ignored.

 Not only is it counter productive to your immediate goal of getting a bug
 looked at (I actually looked at the bug in question and gave up because it
 was
 too painful to read), but it compromises you ability more generally to be
 an
 effective member of the Ubuntu community.

 http://www.ubuntu.com/about/about-ubuntu/conduct is not just a set of
 empty
 platitudes.  It's an essential set of guidance to making a global scale
 project such as Ubuntu work.  Please review it and consider how to align
 your
 interactions in the Ubuntu community with it.  I know this is not easy
 sometimes (I find it a challenge frequently) but both you and the project
 will
 be better off if you do.

 Scott K

 On Tuesday, May 27, 2014 02:34:46 Matteo Sisti Sette wrote:
  Ok,
  I'm calm and relaxed now. Thanks.
 
  Sorry for the offensive language. It's just a matter of replacing a word
  or two in my email and the meaning remains intact, though.
 
  If you have a look at the recent discussion in the bug report and
  especially the changes made by Phillip Susi, I think you will understand
  the reasons why I (together with one or two more users) felt enraged.
 
  By the way, I had already got my broken system fixed (thanks to the
  contribution of other affected users who took the time to report the
  issue and describe the steps they took to revert the damage) and I now
  know what to do the next time the bug strikes me; so, I could have just
  looked away and forgotten about it. If I spent my time replying to the
  bug report and writing to this list to draw the insane - whops, sorry
  again - incorrect - behavior of a developer/triager to your attention,
  it was in an effort to do my best to prevent other thousands of users
  from falling victim of the same issue.
 
  Regards,
  m.
 
  On 27/05/14 02:03, Thomas Ward wrote:
   If I may make a suggestion, can we all just calm down on this,
  
   Matteo, your posting to a list, going on the offensive against someone
 and
   apparently getting very annoyed at it.  That much is evident by the
   overall tone of your messages.  My suggestion is to calm down, and
 relax
   a little.
  
   This may be a bug, but getting angry over it or the actions of others
 on
   this mailing list isn't helping anyone.
  
   --
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   LP:~teward
  
   On May 26, 2014, at 18:22, Matteo Sisti Sette
 matteosistise...@gmail.com wrote:
   On 27/05/14 00:19, Matteo Sisti Sette wrote:
   The most dangerous thing is not even the bug itself, but the fact
 that
   there is an idiot who keeps claiming that it shouldn't even be fixed,
   and changing the status of the bug report to anthing but confirmed
   (invalid, then opinion, now won't fix).
  
   Oh great, and now he has even locked the status so people cannot
 change
   it back.
  
   That man should be revoked the permissions to manage bugs.
   All  the idiotic claims he has made have been proved wrong (just in
 case
   it was not evident enough)
  
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Re: This needs attention

2014-05-26 Thread Scott Kitterman

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