Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Making Canonical's/Ubuntu's contributions more visible

2008-06-09 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 09/06/08 at 16:02 +0200, Przemysław Kulczycki wrote: > Matthew Nuzum pisze: >> On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 4:36 AM, Przemysław Kulczycki >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now let's get to the point. > One of the often accusations against Ubuntu is that it only takes from > other > proj

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Making Canonical's/Ubuntu's contributions more visible

2008-06-09 Thread Przemysław Kulczycki
Matthew Nuzum pisze: On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 4:36 AM, Przemysław Kulczycki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Now let's get to the point. One of the often accusations against Ubuntu is that it only takes from other projects (Debian, Red Hat, Novell/Suse...) and doesn't give back anything. Ubuntu should

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Making Canonical's/Ubuntu's contributions more visible

2008-06-04 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 7:07 AM, Bryce Harrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 3. $ sudo apt-get build > >Run from within the source tree, this wrappers all the work of >generating a patch from the current source tree's changes and adding >it to the package's patch management system (or

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Making Canonical's/Ubuntu's contributions more visible

2008-06-04 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 11:11:05PM +0800, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: > On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Bryce Harrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> It could perhaps make things even easier for developers, but thats > >> another kettle of fish. > > > > I'd be interested in hearing your further

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Making Canonical's/Ubuntu's contributions more visible

2008-06-04 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 04.06.2008 um 17:11 schrieb John McCabe-Dansted: > In principle, developing could be as simple as doing "dev edit > " finding whatever you wanted to change, perhaps > changing a constant like MAX_COL from 80 to 160 in your favourite > editor, doing a "dev test-sandbox", and perhaps a "dev insta

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Making Canonical's/Ubuntu's contributions more visible

2008-06-04 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Bryce Harrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 06:11:10PM +0800, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: >> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Markus Hitter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > - Even if it's distribution specific it's still a commitment to the >

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Making Canonical's/Ubuntu's contributions more visible

2008-05-29 Thread Jonathan Jesse
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 8:38 PM, Onno Benschop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 28/05/08 08:30, Onno Benschop wrote: > > On 27/05/08 18:11, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: > > > >> To my mind the biggest contribution downstream projects make is saving > >> developers time. My experience suggests that it

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Making Canonical's/Ubuntu's contributions more visible

2008-05-27 Thread Onno Benschop
On 28/05/08 08:30, Onno Benschop wrote: > On 27/05/08 18:11, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: > >> To my mind the biggest contribution downstream projects make is saving >> developers time. My experience suggests that it if you are a developer >> and you want to spend less time fighting your distro an

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Making Canonical's/Ubuntu's contributions more visible

2008-05-27 Thread Onno Benschop
On 27/05/08 18:11, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: > To my mind the biggest contribution downstream projects make is saving > developers time. My experience suggests that it if you are a developer > and you want to spend less time fighting your distro and more time > doing actual productive coding, then

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Making Canonical's/Ubuntu's contributions more visible

2008-05-25 Thread Matthew Nuzum
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 4:36 AM, Przemysław Kulczycki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Now let's get to the point. >>> One of the often accusations against Ubuntu is that it only takes from >>> other >>> projects (Debian, Red Hat, Novell/Suse...) and doesn't give back >>> anything. >>> Ubuntu should

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Making Canonical's/Ubuntu's contributions more visible

2008-05-23 Thread Przemysław Kulczycki
Nick Ali pisze: On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 8:00 AM, Przemysław Kulczycki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [disclaimer] I don't know which list is the best to discuss it because there is no specific list for discussing Ubuntu's website, so sorry for the duplication. When the thread expands someone could d

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Making Canonical's/Ubuntu's contributions more visible

2008-05-19 Thread Nick Ali
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 8:00 AM, Przemysław Kulczycki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [disclaimer] > I don't know which list is the best to discuss it because there is no > specific list for discussing Ubuntu's website, so sorry for the duplication. > When the thread expands someone could decide to ke