*nod* that's the same thing with the hard-disk eating bug. Most systems are fixed by turning APM off on the disk drive. This is a one liner that can be dropped in three directories and fix the problem for 90% of the people. Granted, it is not a *FIX* fix, but it makes it work without problems for more people than it would otherwise. But, things have just.. ..floundered. There are partial fixes, and they aren't implemented because they don't work for everyone. So people go, cut and paste from forums, not knowing what they heck they're cutting and pasting, and hope the person 1) got it right and 2) wasn't being malicious.
Can you think of a method of communication (I mean, proposals, bugs filed on launchpad about launchpad, forums, emailing people, ??) that would have a decent probability of success in getting this communication issue fixed or at least partially addressed? There are lots of things that can be done about it, from a technical standpoint -- even just to something as simple as having "escalate" and "de-escalate" buttons, and then a listing of bugs by their escalation value. > I still can't believe they added compiz, tracker, deskbar and put all > those work into the bling and other release-note-show-off-features > instead of getting the basic tasks working. It's not that anybody here > minded trying to triage the bug ourselves, while the experts worked on > the fun stuff. We though we did actually solve it (with user=share). > But instead of putting in 10 minutes of effort into fixing the problem, > they put in half an hour of effort to explain why our solution is wrong. > Which blows my mind even more. user=share would still have been a > better fix than no fix.. It's what everybody is running now, after > googling and copy & pasting instructions from forums. Honestly, it's > just plain embarrising. Well, I can believe they did -- the glitz is nice, and the tools useful -- but, it seems to me that after a couple of releases (feisty, gutsy) of new stuff, the focus for hardy should be on getting stuff working all around. ..and being named "hardy", I think that was the intent. Anywho, this mostly doesn't belong on this bug, I suppose, though hopefully it will get some visibility, and perhaps we can do something about it. If you happen to know of other bugs in which people are disgruntled or disappointed in the process that's going on, please fire an email off to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] In aggregating that info, I might be able to get a better idea of what the problems are and how to deal with them, and the better of an idea that I have, the more likely it is that I and others will be able to put together something that causes some change. -brian -- the security parameter must be set to share, not user, in smb.conf - Smb/Gnome sharing broken https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/32067 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs