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

2008-06-09 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 projects (Debian, Red Hat,

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 whole as

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 package-name 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

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 thoughts on

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

2008-05-29 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 if you are

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

2008-05-27 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 and more

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 make it more