Hi Maciej, On 10/27/06, MaHan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The fact is, Scribus users, contributors (like myself), developers have > been trying to attract Ubuntu makers' attention to various grave issues > in Ubuntu for many months, but these attempts have been widely ignored.
On behalf of the Ubuntu developers, I'd like to apologize if you feel that Scribus has not received due attention from the Ubuntu Core developers. The problem is that there is no specific maintainer of Scribus in Ubuntu, so nobody is feeling much obliged to fix this. > E.g. this bug report from April 2nd: > > https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/scribus/+bug/37711 > > has been analysed and identified as an issue with broken QT modifications > in Ubuntu, help has been offered by Scribus developers and Scribus deb > packager, but there has been no reaction, nor the slightest attempt to > solve the issue or at least get in touch with people who'd offered help. Since it seems that the problems with Scribus stems from the Qt3 and SCIM packages, I would suggest that you try and contact the developers who care for those packages. The main Kubuntu developer, Jonathan Riddell, might be a good bet (I've CC'ed him, so that he can reply to this or pass on the baton if necessary). > IMHO, > until these issues are seriously taken care of by Ubuntu, recommending > Ubuntu users to use Scribus on Ubuntu would be a bad piece of advise. I agree that it somewhat misleading to have an application in the Main repository which receives so little maintainer attention, but please remember that there are only around 40 active Ubuntu core developers and around 2000 packages in Main to take care of. Since you already have narrowed the problem down to these two packages, and you can always try to fix the problem in these packages yourself (or get others to help you) and get the changes uploaded into Main by a sponsoring core developer. To do that, contact one of the members of this team: https://launchpad.net/people/ubuntu-main-sponsors I hope this helps somewhat. I'm sorry that if you feel that your pleas have been ignored, but usually sending mails to the -marketing list doesn't help (your best bet in the future would be to go on #ubuntu-devel and get in touch with one of the core-developers there). So thank you for your persistence. If you weren't so keen on solving this bug in Ubuntu, the core-devs surely would never notice. Cheers, Andreas -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
