Re: Fwd:Ubuntu, please don't waste time on upgrading your flashy & silly themes, desktop-effects!

2012-02-13 Thread John Rowland Lenton
On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:24:49 +0800, Ji Cheng wrote: > > *Ubuntu,Please listen to us. The voice from users! * my apologies, I seem to have missed the vote that made you my spokesperson. Where and when was it? pgp18Uap4bWBD.pgp Description: PGP signature -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-de

Re: EOL for couchdb and desktopcouch

2011-11-23 Thread John Rowland Lenton
On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:44:11 +, Shane Fagan wrote: > > Im saying couchdb is fundamentally flawed by the fact that there are > problems with how scalable it is. That warrants changing it because at > the numbers that are needed to sustain much more people wouldn't work. > And im pretty sure y

Re: EOL for couchdb and desktopcouch

2011-11-22 Thread John Rowland Lenton
On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:11:40 +0100, Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote: > I hadn't actually considered DesktopCouch to be dependent on Ubuntu One. > I considered Ubuntu Ones database synchronization service to be > dependent on the DesktopCouch, but not vice versa. Much the same way, I > don't expect m

Re: EOL for couchdb and desktopcouch

2011-11-22 Thread John Rowland Lenton
On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:20:41 +0100, Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote: > > I'm rather dismayed by this, I have to say. I can imagine. We (Ubuntu One) tried as much as we could (beyond what some would call reasonable) to not have to come to this end, but, as I said, we could find no credible way forward

EOL for couchdb and desktopcouch

2011-11-21 Thread John Rowland Lenton
From the first days of Ubuntu One, before we were even in Ubuntu, we've had a structured data storage sync service based around CouchDB. For the last three years we have worked with the company behind CouchDB to make it scale in the particular ways we need it to scale in our server environment. Ou

Re: [Desktop12.04-Topic] GNOME Version for the LTS

2011-10-13 Thread John Rowland Lenton
On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 10:08:00 -0400, Michael Terry wrote: > I think the GNOME 3.0 PPA worked well as a resource for developers of > GNOME itself and bleeding-edge users; so we can repeat that for 3.4. it did kind of break anything that used apis that gnome3 broke in backwards incompatible ways

Re: Does Ubuntu upload personal information by default and without permission now?

2011-10-12 Thread John Rowland Lenton
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:36:29 -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > > Alternatively, could the entire online store "library" be cached to > user's computers? This should speed up search and there shouldn't be a > privacy concern. It could be similar to what app-install-data does. > But how much space would

Re: Does Ubuntu upload personal information by default and without permission now?

2011-10-12 Thread John Rowland Lenton
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 19:18:43 +0200, David Barth wrote: > Le 11/10/2011 22:04, Matthew Paul Thomas a écrit : > > > > Apple had an equivalent privacy problem with the iTunes MiniStore five > > years ago. there's a significant difference, i