Re: Let's Discuss Interim Releases (and a Rolling Release)

2013-02-28 Thread Scott James Remnant
This is awesome news! When I first proposed it 18-months ago, I was convinced it was the right thing to improve Ubuntu's quality and the pace of development at the same time. I'm excited about this announcement! Scott -- Have you ever, ever felt like this? Had strange things happen? Are you

Re: Upstart helpers (abstract jobs and event aliases) for Oneiric

2011-06-07 Thread Scott James Remnant
In CrOS, we do something similar. We have three boot phase jobs that most other jobs are started and stopped by. They are: startup (distinct from the event) boot-services system-services They are chained together thus: startup: start on startup (this has a main process that carries out

Re: Upstart Cookbook

2011-03-28 Thread Scott James Remnant
! worth mentioning? 5.9 seems to run-in with the next paragraph 8.2.3 - worth a | sort in there? 9.15 - start on stopped mydb EXIT_SIGNAL=SEGV ... ;-) 9.39 - really script/exec ? I'd just use exec there 17 - that should read Scott James Remnant (Google) no? Is there anything in /usr/share/doc

Re: Upstart Cookbook

2011-03-28 Thread Scott James Remnant
: On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Scott James Remnant sc...@netsplit.com wrote: 4.1.1 4.1.2 - worth explaining the real difference between task and service here, perhaps? or later? +1 from me on that. In particular, I'm interested in how starting/started/stopping/stopped events interact

Minutes from the Technical Board meeting, 2011-03-24

2011-03-25 Thread Scott James Remnant
= Attendance = * Scott James Remnant (chair) * Colin Watson * Kees Cook * Martin Pitt * Matt Zimmerman = Apologies = * Mark Shuttleworth = Notes = == Proposal to install ubuntu-restricted-* by default == http://launchpad.net/bugs/723831 The Technical Board voted unanimously against (0

Re: Upstart Cookbook

2011-03-24 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 2:34 PM, James Hunt james.h...@canonical.com wrote: Clint and I have been hard at work on an Upstart Cookbook. Although it is early days, we wanted to let you all know we're working on this project. Our (still *very* draft!) efforts can be viewed here: Nice work, some

Re: Upstart Cookbook

2011-03-24 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Clint Byrum cl...@ubuntu.com wrote: Thanks for the feedback Scott! Appreciate you giving it a read. I know there's a lot there. Yeah, got to #4 and totally hit TL;DR; but will R more later Although Upstart is used on on a number of different

Ubuntu sparc and ia64 ports

2010-06-07 Thread Scott James Remnant
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Re: Why and why.

2010-05-01 Thread Scott James Remnant
! This is the open source way. Release Early and Release Often. Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@ubuntu.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https

Re: Troubleshooting boot problems

2010-04-21 Thread Scott James Remnant
don't want to run ufw -- what's the procedure for turning this service off? Deleting the ufw.conf script from /etc/init? This seems terribly irreversible. Yes, or renaming to .conf-disabled is a common pattern. Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@ubuntu.com signature.asc Description

Re: Troubleshooting boot problems

2010-04-21 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 11:39 -0700, Scott James Remnant wrote: On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 14:33 -0500, Patrick Goetz wrote: What emits the net-device-added event? It's emitted by ifup and by Network Manager, both via the /etc/network/if-up.d/upstart script. Sorry, this was the answer

Re: Troubleshooting boot problems

2010-04-21 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 21:37 +0200, Florian Diesch wrote: Scott James Remnant sc...@ubuntu.com writes: Next, suppose I don't want to run ufw -- what's the procedure for turning this service off? Deleting the ufw.conf script from /etc/init? This seems terribly irreversible. Yes

Re: Troubleshooting boot problems

2010-04-21 Thread Scott James Remnant
in order to trigger rc.conf -- who does that? rc-sysinit.conf does on startup Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@ubuntu.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe

Re: Booting and login - why are users not logged in automatically?

2010-03-25 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 10:00 -0700, Akkana Peck wrote: Scott James Remnant writes: On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 08:14 -0400, Evan wrote: However, given this default you raise a good point that ureadahead should be optimized for this option, not for auto-login. We don't have the hooks

Re: Lots of Kernel related brakage in Lucid (amd64)

2010-03-15 Thread Scott James Remnant
(yesterday's) daily live CD You sure this isn't a Kernel-related issue? If SysRq doesn't reset the screen, that strongly implies this is a kernel issue. Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@ubuntu.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Package version numbers in names

2010-03-10 Thread Scott James Remnant
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Re: Package version numbers in names

2010-03-09 Thread Scott James Remnant
) would have just libexample2 Both can use the same library package Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@ubuntu.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https

Re: util-linux-ng v2.17.1 (new support for 4K-sector disks is useless in DOS-compatible mode. The fdisk command prints warning(s) when startup in DOS mode.)

2010-03-07 Thread Scott James Remnant
branch - just need to do the update. Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@ubuntu.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman

Re: Upstart

2010-03-05 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 12:09 -0600, Patrick Goetz wrote: Scott James Remnant wrote: Anyone can emit any event. That's probably the bit of Upstart that people find the hardest to get to grips with, so there can never be any comprehensive list of every event and every argument - because

Re: Upstart (now, a very modest suggestion)

2010-03-05 Thread Scott James Remnant
, you may also use the restart(8) utility, e.g. restart cron cron start/running, process 20151 Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@ubuntu.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify

Re: Upstart

2010-03-05 Thread Scott James Remnant
started. A good way of describing the difference is: a dependency based system (such as you described) thinks can I start foo yet? no, it needs bah an event based system (like Upstart) thinks bah just started, what else can I start now? Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@ubuntu.com

Re: White-on-black terminal should be default

2010-03-03 Thread Scott James Remnant
lurid pink on green if you like. The default is the way it is because it provides the best contrast on the majority of screens (TFTs, LCDs, etc.) Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@ubuntu.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list

Re: Freeze exception for including usb-modeswitch in main and default (was Re: Including usb-modeswitch in default installation?)

2010-03-01 Thread Scott James Remnant
with what we have for now - and having the work done to use only usb-modeswitch in lucid+1 Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@ubuntu.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings

Re: Freeze exception for including usb-modeswitch in main and default (was Re: Including usb-modeswitch in default installation?)

2010-03-01 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 15:51 +0200, Peteris Krisjanis wrote: 2010/3/1 Scott James Remnant sc...@ubuntu.com: On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 12:17 +0200, Peteris Krisjanis wrote: A little bit *bump* - so, what we do with this one? Is there enough reason for freeze exception for this one

Re: Upstart? Plymouth?

2010-02-24 Thread Scott James Remnant
relevant Upstart documentation? This is a bug that I'm working on. The problem is there's no code in Plymouth to put the VT back ;-) Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@ubuntu.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel

Re: Including usb-modeswitch in default installation?

2010-02-24 Thread Scott James Remnant
; that discussion shouldn't be specific to Ubuntu but should happen on the upstream linux-hotp...@vger.kernel.org mailing list. Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@ubuntu.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel

Re: Including usb-modeswitch in default installation?

2010-02-24 Thread Scott James Remnant
about; I can't make a call as to which *is* the better way forward. Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@ubuntu.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https

Re: Upstart? Plymouth?

2010-02-24 Thread Scott James Remnant
cycle finishing Upstart :-) Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@ubuntu.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: slow boot-up

2009-12-18 Thread Scott James Remnant
time is 23s. We don't generally consider that slow on a hard-drive based system; what kind of time was he expecting? Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@ubuntu.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Introduction to Ubuntu Distributed Development

2009-12-17 Thread Scott James Remnant
leverage the existing bzr infrastructure. For example, by adding support to their DVCS to be able to pull from and push to the LP server. That way users could use whichever command-line tool they wanted, and we'd all have access to the same branches. Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@ubuntu.com

Re: Introduction to Ubuntu Distributed Development

2009-12-17 Thread Scott James Remnant
a Technical Board to arbitrate such matters; they may likely ask for opinions on the matter. Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@ubuntu.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify

Re: Introduction to Ubuntu Distributed Development

2009-12-17 Thread Scott James Remnant
that. But, as far as I am aware, *nobody* has even begun to. Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@ubuntu.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com

Re: Introduction to Ubuntu Distributed Development

2009-12-17 Thread Scott James Remnant
instead of bzr, then vote with your code editor! :-) Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@ubuntu.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https

Re: Fedora CVS to git migration

2009-12-10 Thread Scott James Remnant
the source tree, and commit that to git. Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@ubuntu.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-distributed-devel mailing list ubuntu-distributed-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com

Re: Supporting a GNU Hurd port?

2009-12-09 Thread Scott James Remnant
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Re: Supporting a GNU Hurd port?

2009-12-09 Thread Scott James Remnant
card, which is stalled waiting for the video card driver, which is stalled waiting on the memory controller - you're doomed no matter how many different contexts you broke that down into g Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@ubuntu.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message

Re: Supporting a GNU Hurd port?

2009-12-08 Thread Scott James Remnant
do that, it would be a complete flag day switch. I am firmly against trying to support two kernels with one userland. Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@ubuntu.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Minutes from the Technical Board meeting, 2009-10-20

2009-10-25 Thread Scott James Remnant
= Attendees = Colin Watson Kees Cook Mark Shuttleworth Martin Pitt Matt Zimmerman Scott James Remnant (chair) = Notes = * Review actions from last meeting * Keybuk to finalize unit policy and email to TB for vote See agenda item. * cjwatson to drive vote on Archive Reorg rights

Minutes from the Technical Board meeting, 2009-10-20

2009-10-20 Thread Scott James Remnant
= Attendees = Colin Watson Kees Cook Mark Shuttleworth Martin Pitt Matt Zimmerman Scott James Remnant (chair) = Notes = * Review actions from last meeting * Keybuk to finalize unit policy and email to TB for vote See agenda item. * cjwatson to drive vote on Archive Reorg rights

Re: Minutes from the Technical Board meeting, 2009-07-14

2009-07-15 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 13:54 -0500, jairo mayorga wrote: Will you help multiseat proyect? What kind of help do you require from the Technical Board? Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@canonical.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Minutes from the Technical Board meeting, 2009-07-14

2009-07-14 Thread Scott James Remnant
= Attendees = * Matt Zimmerman (chair) * Colin Watson * Scott James Remnant = Notes = * The Board agreed on the text for the Developer Application Board proposal and has passed it to the Community Council and MOTU Council for review. The outcome of this will be discussed at the next

Technical Board: Nominations

2009-07-14 Thread Scott James Remnant
yourself forward for nomination, or would like to nominate a member of the Ubuntu Developer community who you think would make a fine member of the board, please send an e-mail to technical-bo...@lists.ubuntu.com Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@ubuntu.com signature.asc Description

Minutes from the Technical Board meeting, 2009-07-14

2009-07-14 Thread Scott James Remnant
= Attendees = * Matt Zimmerman (chair) * Colin Watson * Scott James Remnant = Notes = * The Board agreed on the text for the Developer Application Board proposal and has passed it to the Community Council and MOTU Council for review. The outcome of this will be discussed at the next

Technical Board: Nominations

2009-07-14 Thread Scott James Remnant
yourself forward for nomination, or would like to nominate a member of the Ubuntu Developer community who you think would make a fine member of the board, please send an e-mail to technical-bo...@lists.ubuntu.com Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@ubuntu.com signature.asc Description

Mono Position Statement

2009-06-30 Thread Scott James Remnant
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Re: That upstart Upstart

2009-06-30 Thread Scott James Remnant
/ deliberate ;-) Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@canonical.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel

Re: Replace Tomboy with Gnote?

2009-06-19 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 19:17 -0400, Hubert Figuiere wrote: Scott James Remnant wrote: One of my principal concerns would that Gnote is simply a code port of Tomboy from Mono to C++, with little development of its own. This means that should the maintainer tire of converting C# to C

Re: Replace Tomboy with Gnote?

2009-06-17 Thread Scott James Remnant
concerns would that Gnote is simply a code port of Tomboy from Mono to C++, with little development of its own. This means that should the maintainer tire of converting C# to C++, the project could quite quickly die. Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@canonical.com signature.asc Description

Re: My Suggestions on ISSUE, MOTD, lsb-base-logging.sh

2009-06-15 Thread Scott James Remnant
the FAIL notifications. 2) All human eyes are drawn to colour. It's much easier for almost everybody to pick out a splash of red in a sea of white, than it is to pick out a splash of red in a sea of mixed colours. Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@canonical.com signature.asc Description

Re: GRUB 2 now default for new installations

2009-06-10 Thread Scott James Remnant
to do. were there discussions about how to manage hibernation? tuxonice and i think uswsusp can write to a swapfile, but i'm not sure that swsusp can do that right now. It can. Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@canonical.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message

Re: Ubuntu Desktop Unit Consistency (LP: #369525)

2009-06-02 Thread Scott James Remnant
and bandwidth, and is what other operating systems are also tending to use (thus it's more likely this is what packaging will use). Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@canonical.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel

Technical Board Meeting, today at 1400UTC

2009-06-02 Thread Scott James Remnant
of the day to provide leadership or direction to the community. The first topic for discussion is Mono. Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@ubuntu.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: Ubuntu Desktop Unit Consistency (LP: #369525)

2009-06-02 Thread Scott James Remnant
this is yet another strange postfix or unit that users would have to learn. 735.2 MB is not confusing if it means ~735,200,000 bytes. Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@canonical.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu

Re: Ubuntu Desktop Unit Consistency (LP: #369525)

2009-06-02 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 11:22 +0100, Andrew Sayers wrote: Scott James Remnant wrote: ... this is yet another strange postfix or unit that users would have to learn. 735.2 MB is not confusing if it means ~735,200,000 bytes. That's a good point for the short form, so long as the UI

Re: group access to local devices on shared networked machines

2009-05-08 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Fri, 2009-05-08 at 11:36 -0500, Patrick Goetz wrote: Scott James Remnant wrote: Provided they are on the same physical console as the local optical drive, this is done automatically. Well, we need to retain the option of people ssh'ing to the machine and using the optical drive

Re: Merge-o-Matic messing up with non ASCII in its reports?

2009-05-07 Thread Scott James Remnant
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Re: Usev permissions and USB scanners

2009-05-05 Thread Scott James Remnant
on devices such as scanners so that logged in console users can directly access the device without needing to be in any special group. Further access can be granted through the Authorizations tool. Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@canonical.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: Ubuntu autofs and module-init-tools contacts

2009-04-14 Thread Scott James Remnant
we try and limit our packages to only contain the upstream source code and no option overrides (which are better done inside the modules). Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@canonical.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list

Re: Ubuntu autofs and module-init-tools contacts

2009-04-14 Thread Scott James Remnant
? You can do everything with MODULE_ALIAS() that you can do with an alias line in module-init-tools. We have eliminated them all, and are not really looking to put any back ;) Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@canonical.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Ubuntu autofs and module-init-tools contacts

2009-04-14 Thread Scott James Remnant
configuration is used *for that kernel only*. Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@canonical.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https

Re: Reason for removing animation from Gnome login?

2009-03-26 Thread Scott James Remnant
://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2009/03/15/dont-fear-the-fsync/ Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@canonical.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https

Re: Large files under ubuntu do not appear to work

2009-03-26 Thread Scott James Remnant
definition normally kilo == 1024) The latter isn't true either. Network speeds are generally in thousands of bits per second and multiples thereof. The primary users of binary multiples is the RAM industry, since it's a fundamental multiple of how RAM works. Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc

Re: Large files under ubuntu do not appear to work

2009-03-25 Thread Scott James Remnant
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Re: Reason for removing animation from Gnome login?

2009-03-23 Thread Scott James Remnant
password (e.g. with Logging in...) and the desktop fades in when everything's ready. Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@canonical.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings

Re: Reason for removing animation from Gnome login?

2009-03-23 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 09:43 -0400, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: On Monday 23 March 2009 9:18:59 am Lars Wirzenius wrote: ma, 2009-03-23 kello 11:57 +, Scott James Remnant kirjoitti: One good idea would be that the screen holds at the login screen after entering your password (e.g

Re: Re : setresuid, setreuid AIO, bug? where?

2009-03-23 Thread Scott James Remnant
/EPERM back from the rt_sigqueueinfo() call that it uses to notify its parent of the completing IO. In that case two things happen: Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@canonical.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu

Re: [rfc] boot-time async readahead...

2009-02-12 Thread Scott James Remnant
OOB, because there's something very wrong with his machine ;) -- Scott James Remnant sc...@canonical.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https

Re: improving compiled modules of kernel - per-user (was Reasons Why Jaunty Will Not Ship With 2.6.29)

2009-02-12 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 11:15 +, (``-_-ยดยด) -- BUGabundo wrote: On Thursday 12 February 2009 00:17:51 Scott James Remnant wrote: This is most likely simply a difference between *your* 2.6.29 config and the Ubuntu 2.6.28 one - I expect you compiled in many of the drivers your computer

Re: [strawman] Make Launchpad Extract Patches

2009-02-12 Thread Scott James Remnant
then to just have a download link to the patches themselves. In the meantime, you can obtain these from: http://patches.ubuntu.com/ In particular: http://patches.ubuntu.com/by-release/extracted/ubuntu/ Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@canonical.com signature.asc Description

Re: Reasons Why Jaunty Will Not Ship With 2.6.29

2009-02-11 Thread Scott James Remnant
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Re: [rfc] boot-time async readahead...

2009-02-11 Thread Scott James Remnant
. This is generally a benefit on SSD or very high speed rotary disks, but a drawback on low speed rotary disks or machines with low memory. Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@canonical.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel

Re: Metacity as a compositing manager

2009-02-10 Thread Scott James Remnant
. The only effect provided by the Metacity compositor is drop-shadows. Otherwise all other effects are not available. Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@canonical.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Metacity as a compositing manager

2009-02-10 Thread Scott James Remnant
anything like the current level of effects :-/ metacity-clutter is more interesting in this regard. Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@canonical.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: hwclock delaying boot...

2009-02-10 Thread Scott James Remnant
://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareClock All we need to do on boot is step the system block by the timezone delta if the hardware clock is not storing UTC. On shutdown we do need to call --systohc to save the current time. No hardware clock alteration is required during suspend/resume. Scott -- Scott James Remnant

Re: Any news on skype+pulseaudio+intel_hda_realtek ?

2009-02-10 Thread Scott James Remnant
is Tracker; which we deployed and subsequently removed. The removal was because it was clear that users were not benefiting from it, thus the cost was not warranted. -- Scott James Remnant sc...@canonical.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-devel

Re: Any news on skype+pulseaudio+intel_hda_realtek ?

2009-02-10 Thread Scott James Remnant
that need utmost stability, we have Long Term Support releases every couple of years; we put extra effort into bug fixing for these, and try to avoid any large subsystem changes. Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@canonical.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Any news on skype+pulseaudio+intel_hda_realtek ?

2009-02-10 Thread Scott James Remnant
release - Fedora - is arguably even more bleeding edge and less conservative than we are!) Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@canonical.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify

Re: Internet-Teenagers and what Ubuntu can do.

2009-01-28 Thread Scott James Remnant
onto the Internet to look at porn - just like you did. I'll never understand the modern parents attempts to protect their children from websites in their own bookmarks list. Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@canonical.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [strawman] Make Git Branches of all Ubuntu Packages Too

2009-01-12 Thread Scott James Remnant
simultaneously use bzr and git, and collide in mid-air? As the other replier suggested, a more sane approach would be to allow git access to the bzr archives. Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@canonical.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Jaunty UDS schedule?

2008-12-09 Thread Scott James Remnant
expressed interest in, etc. Rather than require people to create yet another account on the schedule application, we use their Launchpad account. Scott -- Scott James Remnant [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list

Re: Ubuntu 8.10 significantly slower than previous versions

2008-11-06 Thread Scott James Remnant
you need to forward-port? The same kernel binary will just work. Also you can just fiddle on a per-disk basis, e.g.: echo -n deadline /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler Scott -- Scott James Remnant [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu

Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-18 Thread Scott James Remnant
if nobody complains too much, I'll submit it upstream as a patch in a little while. Scott [0] except for gnome-terminal, which is not a poster child -- Scott James Remnant [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list

Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-11 Thread Scott James Remnant
and their contribution is added to the mix. Scott -- Scott James Remnant [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com

Re: Banshee by default in Intrepid

2008-06-09 Thread Scott James Remnant
about both of them ;) The Banshee authors got a list via Jorge Castro, and Rhythmbox authors will be getting lots of bugs filed for them. Banshee needs to be demonstrably _better_ than Rhythmbox, right now it's only merely different. Scott -- Scott James Remnant [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc

Re: update-rc.d multiuser is deprecated

2008-06-05 Thread Scott James Remnant
the LSB script headers? So if you change the LSB script headers, you can revert the update-rc.d call to defaults ? Scott -- Scott James Remnant [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Ubuntu boot speed fall in Hardy

2008-05-22 Thread Scott James Remnant
combined lists for each cgroup. Scott -- Scott James Remnant [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman

Re: Reminders: 1. UI freeze == string freeze, notifications needed for translators. 2. please remember i18n.

2008-03-07 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 15:27 +, Matthew East wrote: Hi Scott On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Scott James Remnant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 15:39 +0200, Timo Jyrinki wrote: I'm generally more interested in getting stuff done that following processes

Re: Reminders: 1. UI freeze == string freeze, notifications needed for translators. 2. please remember i18n.

2008-03-07 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 19:28 +0200, Timo Jyrinki wrote: 2008/3/7, Scott James Remnant [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Package maintainers are no more in the light than the translators, all the package maintainer is doing is packaging a new upstream version and uploading it. The wider subject

Re: gThumb

2008-01-15 Thread Scott James Remnant
within it, double-click to make them bigger and use Next/Previous buttons to move between them at full size. Scott -- Scott James Remnant [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: A tricky situation in malone bug 60995

2007-10-21 Thread Scott James Remnant
until the matter is referred to the TB -- and that should only happen once dialogue here has broken down and no consensus reached. Scott -- Scott James Remnant [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel

Re: A tricky situation in malone bug 60995

2007-10-20 Thread Scott James Remnant
be that. If the TB doesn't rule the way you like, then your final appeal would be directly to the SABDFL--though in practice, since he is a member of the TB, he would have already expressed his preference. Scott -- Scott James Remnant [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description

Re: 4 More days...

2007-10-15 Thread Scott James Remnant
marked Incomplete ? Scott -- Scott James Remnant [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu

Re: Restricted tab-completion is annoying

2007-10-15 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 17:46 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: So I submit that programmable completions should be off by default. As long as it stays on off by default for zsh, where it *always* has been context-specific. Scott -- Scott James Remnant [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description

Re: Restricted tab-completion is annoying

2007-10-15 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 17:52 +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 17:46 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: So I submit that programmable completions should be off by default. As long as it stays on off by default for zsh, where it *always* has

Re: 4 More days...

2007-10-15 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 03:46 +1000, David MacKinnon wrote: On 10/16/07, Scott James Remnant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You mentioned udev in your mailing list post -- clearly you have some reason to suspect it should be fixed there, otherwise why mention it all? Because the other person

Re: Activate Desktop-Effects: Yes/No-Button?

2007-09-27 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 11:04 +0200, Dominik Wagenfuehr wrote: Alex wrote: One of my clients sent me this quote about Choice: So maybe dictatorship is the only real form of government... Benevolent dictatorship Scott -- Scott James Remnant [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description

Subpixel font rendering in gutsy

2007-09-20 Thread Scott James Remnant
/conf.avail Scott -- Scott James Remnant [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel

Re: update-db cron job: solving a long-standing issue

2007-09-17 Thread Scott James Remnant
the same purpose: locate only indexes file names, while tracker indexes your entire file system, which is much more heavyweight). Sounds entirely reasonable to me; -server might choose to retain it, but they don't have trackerd. Scott -- Scott James Remnant Ubuntu Development Manager [EMAIL

Re: Ubuntu development...

2007-08-28 Thread Scott James Remnant
for warty. Our packaging system is more strict about this, of course; but that's not a problem with glibc. Scott -- Scott James Remnant Ubuntu Development Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel

Re: LVM on gutsy (#132138)

2007-08-23 Thread Scott James Remnant
day, could you cross-reference with dpkg.log to see what you upgraded on that day? Scott -- Scott James Remnant Ubuntu Development Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss

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