Some questions about Ubuntu

2007-09-20 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, Following my blog post about communications between distros[1], I contacted openSUSE and Fedora developers and had a lot of interesting answers. I'd like to get answers to the same questions from Ubuntu developers. [1] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog/?p=250 I could probably write the answ

Re: Subpixel font rendering in gutsy

2007-09-20 Thread Alex Jones
On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 23:45 +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: > Very small (12px in height and less) Monospace fonts (such as those used > by gnome-terminal) will not be rendered this way because several users > have expressed dislike of the effect; if you want to see whether you > prefer them wi

Re: Why is amd64 late?

2007-09-20 Thread Todd Deshane
On 9/19/07, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 11:30:59PM -0400, Todd Deshane wrote: > > On 9/17/07, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > A simple oversight; it was enabled in this morning's kernel upload, and > > > I just processed it through the archive so

preparing 7.10 upcome

2007-09-20 Thread Mihamina (R12y) Rakotomandimby
Hi, I dont know if you have already been confronted to the lagging of the mirrors at the date of any release. FTP servers are always overloaded. So. I have a dedicated server, at OVH (a French ISP) and another one at CTN1 (also French): How could I bring my participation in order to use my serv

Subpixel font rendering in gutsy

2007-09-20 Thread Scott James Remnant
For the gutsy beta release, we will be experimenting with some changes to our font rendering that is believed to produce significantly better results on LCD screens. Obviously fonts are a very subjective issue, so we're using the beta to get feedback about whether to enable it permanently or perha

Re: That need to close developers?

2007-09-20 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
On 20/09/2007 Colin Watson wrote: > As a developer, I wish I didn't have to spend time checking my > bug mail just to make sure that well-intentioned but mistaken triagers > aren't taking items off my to-do list that I want to stay there. > As we are in topic, I suggest that, if a complete bug r

Beta ISO testing: Updated test cases and reporting

2007-09-20 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
Hi, In preparation for gutsy beta images the test cases have been updated and restructured. The tests are now grouped by a generic category, such as Live CD session, Live install and Server install. The wiki page for each procedure is short, but in turn links to distro-flavour-specific modules

update-manager issue: upgrade for beta versions

2007-09-20 Thread Alexandre Strube
Some days ago, we had a discussion about the proper method of upgrading ubuntu remotely, and the obvious answer was update-manager, because of the issues regarding updates with apt-get. It surprised me to know that update-manager does not work on feisty to upgrade to gutsy beta, and that the bug is

Re: That need to close bugs?

2007-09-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 10:57:48PM +1200, Aaron Whitehouse wrote: > My underlying point is that we all want Ubuntu to be bug-free. It > isn't and it isn't likely to be any time soon. While it isn't, we need > to focus our resources on things that are ready to be fixed. There is > nothing to stop ha

Re: That need to close bugs?

2007-09-20 Thread Aaron Whitehouse
> What is the rationale behind skipping closed bugs in a search? I've > been burned by this in the past. > > I can understand why the QA guys or the even developers would want > this but for a user, who is actually making the effort to not only > report a bug but to search for dups first, why would

Re: More libraries needed in ia32-libs for Wine

2007-09-20 Thread Reinhard Tartler
Scott Ritchie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've uncovered a few bugs in the Wine package for AMD 64 that are the > result of a few 32 bit libraries not being included at build time. > > Among those we lack 32 bit version of in any package: > libssl (for both libssl and libcrypto) > libjack > And