On Sat, May 05, 2012 at 02:41:32PM +0100, alan c wrote:
> I can confirm that this is a very convenient and practical way to
> register a bug, and works pretty well. I cannot recall using it for
> very long so perhaps it is relatively new facility, or if I have
> just recently become aware of it.
I
On 04/05/12 17:32, Gareth France wrote:
that new
people don't already know the routine
I have often forgotten how to do this (several times) and several
times have used web, wiki or various searches, and I have been
frustrated that this most convenient way is not generally the one
which is
On 05/05/12 14:41, alan c wrote:
On 04/05/12 17:05, Alan Pope wrote:
ubuntu-bug unity
(replacing "unity" with whatever package has the issue)
Then follow the prompts on the screen.
I can confirm that this is a very convenient and practical way to
register a bug, and works pretty well. I can
On 04/05/12 17:05, Alan Pope wrote:
ubuntu-bug unity
(replacing "unity" with whatever package has the issue)
Then follow the prompts on the screen.
I can confirm that this is a very convenient and practical way to
register a bug, and works pretty well. I cannot recall using it for
very long
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On 04/05/12 17:05, Alan Pope wrote:
> On 04/05/12 07:16, Gareth France wrote:
>> I have to admit I gave up trying to report bugs a long time ago.
>> It always seems that any attempt to get involved results in me
>> getting shouted at by people.
>
> Wh
> What does this tell you? :)
>
> I'm happy to help people file bugs and help gather the "right"
> information to make them the best bugs they can be.
>
> The easiest way to file bugs is most often dropping to a terminal and
> running the following:-
>
> ubuntu-bug unity
>
> (replacing "unity" with
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On 04/05/12 07:16, Gareth France wrote:
> I have to admit I gave up trying to report bugs a long time ago. It
> always seems that any attempt to get involved results in me getting
> shouted at by people.
What does this tell you? :)
I'm happy to help
On 04/05/12 08:25, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
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On 2012-05-04 08:59, Alan Pope wrote:
It's funny you should ask that. I'm at a Canonical product sprint
this week and one of our tasks was to review the 12.04 release and
make suggestions for how things coul
On 04/05/12 15:16, Gareth France wrote:
I have to admit I gave up trying to report bugs a long time ago. It
always seems that any attempt to get involved results in me getting
shouted at by people. I have posted on forums for pre-release
versions, the intention being to say 'I'm having this i
On 04/05/12 07:59, Alan Pope wrote:
One point which came up was that 12.04 was very stable from very early
on in the cycle. There were very few catastrophic breakages which led
to a broken desktop (such as X version migrations or compiz/unity
inconsistencies in packaging). It was (more often th
>
> However, I'm not sure if the developer's particularly want bugs of this
> sort reported. The problem being that they are upstream issues and it
> seems that Ubuntu developers cannot do much about them until the fix
> trickles down, if it ever does. The best they can do, it seems, is to keep
>
On 4 May 2012 07:59, Alan Pope wrote:
>
Things break and when
> they do we should help people to fix them or file bugs so developers
> can fix the issue.
>
> If we don't then we're doing a disservice to the next person who has
> the issue.
>
I agree with this wholeheartedly and I have often po
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On 2012-05-04 08:59, Alan Pope wrote:
> It's funny you should ask that. I'm at a Canonical product sprint
> this week and one of our tasks was to review the 12.04 release and
> make suggestions for how things could be improved.
Good luck this week, Al
On 04/05/12 08:12, Alan Pope wrote:
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On 04/05/12 00:06, Piskie wrote:
How would you do it Alan ?
I wouldn't upgrade now.
Cheers,
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Engineering Manager
Canonical - Product Strategy
+44 (0) 7973 620 164
alan.p...@canonical.com
http:/
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On 04/05/12 00:06, Piskie wrote:
> How would you do it Alan ?
>
I wouldn't upgrade now.
Cheers,
- --
Alan Pope
Engineering Manager
Canonical - Product Strategy
+44 (0) 7973 620 164
alan.p...@canonical.com
http://ubuntu.com/
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On 04/05/12 08:04, Alan Pope wrote:
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On 03/05/12 23:21, Piskie wrote:
You can upgrade now - I have a 12.10 partition up.
I use these commands to do so
sudo sed -i 's/precise/quantal/g' /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo apt-get update&& sudo apt-get dis
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On 03/05/12 23:21, Piskie wrote:
> You can upgrade now - I have a 12.10 partition up.
>
> I use these commands to do so
>
> sudo sed -i 's/precise/quantal/g' /etc/apt/sources.list
>
> sudo apt-get update&& sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
>
I wouldn't r
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On 03/05/12 23:00, kpb wrote:
> I have always had a separate /home and reinstalled when changing
> version.
To be clear, there is nothing wrong with doing that. One of my
machines is setup like that too, but that's by virtue of / being an
SSD and /ho
On 04/05/12 07:00, kpb wrote:
On 03/05/12 23:22, Alan Pope wrote:
If everyone just re-installed the OS whenever the wind changed
direction we'd end up with a significantly worse OS as a result. When
everyone keeps telling everyone else to reinstall, we end up with the
state that Windows is in.
On 03/05/12 23:22, Alan Pope wrote:
If everyone just re-installed the OS whenever the wind changed
direction we'd end up with a significantly worse OS as a result. When
everyone keeps telling everyone else to reinstall, we end up with the
state that Windows is in. Everyone thinks that's the sol
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