Re: Launchpad Bug Filing Changes for Ubuntu + reporter's thoughts

2009-11-18 Thread André Pirard
On 2009-09-15 19:53, Brian Murray wrote : Hello everybody, As a part of the Increase Apport Adoption specification[1] we are going to kick off an experiment and redirect all of Ubuntu's /+filebug links in Launchpad to https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs. This change has been tested

Stop the madness

2009-11-18 Thread patrick
Dear madam, sir, The fact that I'm using Ubuntu since version 6.06 is only a detail. But where is Ubuntu going today? I'm willing to beg to the programmers: please test your software!! Try to listen to your users!! It's nice to have the latest technology inside a distribution but what do I

Re: Stop the madness

2009-11-18 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 17.11.2009 um 12:19 schrieb patrick: Give a distribution the time to mature, listen to your big chief, even when it's for only time only: 1 distribution a year will bring quality software instead of buggy software like it is now !! I had some thoughts on this as well and came to the

Re: Stop the madness

2009-11-18 Thread Shentino
Personally, I was ecstatic to try out Kernel Mode Setting. I was very happy with it...until I found out that it absolutely butchered the VGA console. Finding out that vgacon was not supported broke my heart. However, these decisions seem to have been made by the graphics guys up at

Re: Stop the madness

2009-11-18 Thread Derek Broughton
patrick wrote: Dear madam, sir, I wonder about the wisdom of even trying to respond to an email that starts that way... Give a distribution the time to mature, listen to your big chief, even when it's for only time only: 1 distribution a year will bring quality software instead of buggy

Re: Stop the madness

2009-11-18 Thread Joao Pinto
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Markus Hitter m...@jump-ing.de wrote: Am 17.11.2009 um 12:19 schrieb patrick: Give a distribution the time to mature, listen to your big chief, even when it's for only time only: 1 distribution a year will bring quality software instead of buggy software

patch for fakeroot faked.c

2009-11-18 Thread your name
we have discovered a fakeroot deadlock, and we've attached a source-patch that solves the problem at our site. the outward manifestation is that *faked* the client (in our case, usually *chown -R ...*) appear to be deadlocked, with faked hanging at listen() and the client hanging at read().

Here lies the responsiblity

2009-11-18 Thread George Farris
Well we've certainly seen a few problems with Karmic. I have reports from new or upgrading users of crashing applications etc. So here is what I see as the major problem. Ubuntu has had such good success that to many people, Ubuntu and Linux are one and the same thing. Ubuntu = Linux and Linux

Insufficiencies in Karmic's battery behavior

2009-11-18 Thread Caleb Marcus
Karmic's adoption of DeviceKit-Power and the latest Gnome-Power-Manager has changed the way the GUI reports remaining battery time. The old method built a profile of how long, on average, it took for each percentage point of the battery to be depleted. From that, it could estimate fairly

Re: Insufficiencies in Karmic's battery behavior

2009-11-18 Thread Dylan McCall
Karmic's adoption of DeviceKit-Power and the latest Gnome-Power-Manager has changed the way the GUI reports remaining battery time. Possibly relevant to this discussion is a widely me tooed' bug report on the battery time estimate flat out not happening in Karmic:

Re: Stop the madness

2009-11-18 Thread Christopher Lees
On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 22:24 +, patrick wrote: Dear madam, sir, The fact that I'm using Ubuntu since version 6.06 is only a detail. But where is Ubuntu going today? I'm willing to beg to the programmers: please test your software!! They do test their software, but the fact is that