Re: [Fwd: Re: Appropriateness of posts to this list (Was Re: evince crash)]

2007-12-06 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Thursday 06 December 2007 16:58, Richard A. Johnson wrote: > Scott, I do have a problem with the document you linked to about asking > smart questions. Most of the answers I have seen in there are stupid > answers or stupid solutions. I was always raised with the idea that there > isn't a such

Re: [Fwd: Re: Appropriateness of posts to this list (Was Re: evince crash)]

2007-12-06 Thread Richard A. Johnson
RESENDING MY ORIGINAL POST TO THE LIST. This way Kevin doesn't blasted because of my comments :) On Thursday 06 December 2007, Kevin Fries wrote: [...] | If I don't get my steak the way I ordered it.  I buy my steak from | elsewhere.  Ubuntu with no users, is not anything but an exercise in | ego

Re: [Fwd: Re: Appropriateness of posts to this list (Was Re: evince crash)]

2007-12-06 Thread Richard A. Johnson
On Thursday 06 December 2007, Kevin Fries wrote: | This was sent to me personally, and it has comments directed to others | in the group... Therefore, I assume it was meant for the group at large. Thanks Kevin, sorry about that. I must have hit the wrong reply button. -- Richard A. Johnson [EMAI

Re: [Fwd: Re: Appropriateness of posts to this list (Was Re: evince crash)]

2007-12-06 Thread Thilo Six
Sarah Hobbs wrote the following on 06.12.2007 12:47 > According to [2], the point of contact for users to get in touch with > developers is ubuntu-devel-discuss. > That being said, there are a number of developers who choose not to read > this list, for various reasons. one contradict th

Re: [Fwd: Re: Appropriateness of posts to this list (Was Re: evince crash)]

2007-12-06 Thread Todd Deshane
Hi All, I think this thread has gotten way off topic. Can somebody in charge flag this thread as a "dead horse" [1] ? I think there is some good discussion going on, but those discussions should be taken to new, fresh threads. I do think that in order to post to lists intended for developers to

[Fwd: Re: Appropriateness of posts to this list (Was Re: evince crash)]

2007-12-06 Thread Kevin Fries
This was sent to me personally, and it has comments directed to others in the group... Therefore, I assume it was meant for the group at large. Kevin Fries Forwarded Message From: Richard A. Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re

report(ed)bug(s) slipped through

2007-12-06 Thread Thilo Six
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user/126515 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user/124895 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user/126118 http://www.google.com/search?as_q=reportbug&hl=de&num=30&btnG=Google-Suche&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=&cr=&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&

Re: Appropriateness of posts to this list (Was Re: evince crash)

2007-12-06 Thread Neal McBurnett
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 11:55:40AM -0700, Kevin Fries wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 12:03 -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > I think you misunderstand my point. > > No I got it. And I think that that thinking is wrong and dangerous to > Linux in general, and Ubuntu in specific. Kevin - howdy!

Re: Kickseed, Kickstart, Preseed

2007-12-06 Thread MJang
On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 12:43 +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 12:30:23PM +, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 08:43:34PM -0800, MJang wrote: > > > Wondering where Ubuntu is going w/r/t automated installations. I see > > > bits on Kickseed, but nothing in Guts

Re: Appropriateness of posts to this list (Was Re: evince crash)

2007-12-06 Thread Patrick
There are some really strong arguments being put forth in this thread. I think I can understand how all the participates feel. I think there is a developer-user disconnect and I tried to touch on this in my long winded "best foot forward" thread. That being said I have contributed absolutely no

Re: Appropriateness of posts to this list (Was Re: evince crash)

2007-12-06 Thread Cory K.
Kevin Fries wrote: > You allow the customers wishes to be the only real metric because you > place Ubuntu and Linux's needs before your own. Otherwise, are you > really helping? *IF* I were paid I would agree. What it comes down to with many of us is we find a niche we care about and work on that

Re: Appropriateness of posts to this list (Was Re: evince crash)

2007-12-06 Thread Kevin Fries
On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 12:03 -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote: > I think you misunderstand my point. No I got it. And I think that that thinking is wrong and dangerous to Linux in general, and Ubuntu in specific. > My concern is the idea that "because a user said they want it" is a meaninful > me

Re: Appropriateness of posts to this list (Was Re: evince crash)

2007-12-06 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Thursday 06 December 2007 11:36, Kevin Fries wrote: > On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 22:13 -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > For those of us who are volunteers (most of us), the compromise is > > someone has to convince me it's worth my time to bother. So I'd say > > the other way around. The users who

Re: Appropriateness of posts to this list (Was Re: evince crash)

2007-12-06 Thread Kevin Fries
On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 22:13 -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote: > For those of us who are volunteers (most of us), the compromise is > someone has to convince me it's worth my time to bother. So I'd say > the other way around. The users who want volunteers to actually do > free work for them need to be

Re: Hardy Alpha 1 released

2007-12-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 11:25:35AM -0600, Conrad Knauer wrote: > On Dec 3, 2007 7:34 AM, Ped <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From forum post I learned the sagem modem *did* work in 5.xx ubuntu > > (probably 2.4 kernel with eagle-usb driver) right after install, but when I > > did install 6.10 first

Re: GParted installed by default?

2007-12-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 10:26:35PM +0100, Jan Claeys wrote: > Op maandag 03-12-2007 om 15:57 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Jonas > Jørgensen: > > I would like to ask whether it has been considered to make GParted > > part of the default desktop install, and if so what the reasons were > > for not i

Re: Kickseed, Kickstart, Preseed

2007-12-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 12:30:23PM +, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 08:43:34PM -0800, MJang wrote: > > Wondering where Ubuntu is going w/r/t automated installations. I see > > bits on Kickseed, but nothing in Gutsy. I see per > > https://launchpad.net/kickseed/ that it was in

Re: [Fwd: Re: Appropriateness of posts to this list (Was Re: evince crash)]

2007-12-06 Thread Sarah Hobbs
Blaise Alleyne wrote: > True, but there's the additional question - is this the appropriate > place for that sort of discussion? In other words, sure, the developers > need a place to discuss things free from the mob, but the mob also > needs to be able to participate and voice their concerns/appro

[Fwd: Re: Appropriateness of posts to this list (Was Re: evince crash)]

2007-12-06 Thread Blaise Alleyne
Onno Benschop wrote: > On 04/12/07 01:28, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > >> I think allowing the developers of the distribution, those who have a >> real stake in the success of the software in its entirety, to decide >> where to focus their efforts is superior to allowing the mob to decide >> wha