Brandan I agree with you. I just noticed it and thought that it is important for us, the QA, to address.
I hope to get it discussed with you guys :-). On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Brendan Donegan < brendan.done...@canonical.com> wrote: > Alex, > > Having such a 'bug' lying around isn't useful, so I closed it as invalid. > I agree we should discuss this issue of third-party software breaking and > you're right that it has echoes of Ubuntu Friendly/Hardware Certification > (you could say we need a type of 'Software Certification' as well as > 'Hardware Certification') > > I note that the bug reporter didn't offer the name of the commercial > software which broke for them as well, which isn't helpful. > > > On 09/01/12 17:31, Alex Lourie wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Gema Gomez < > gema.gomez-sol...@canonical.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> thanks Phill for running the meeting last week! >> >> I am back from holidays so I can run the meeting on Wednesday. It'll be >> a short one, though, because we are in Budapest this week on the Precise >> Rally and we have a team dinner that night. >> >> I can give an update on what is being discussed and we can have an >> update from what is going on in the community and on the derivatives and >> spend only 30 mins on it. If anyone has anything pressing to discuss, >> please, bring it up at the beginning! >> >> Best Regards, >> Gema >> >> -- >> Ubuntu-qa mailing list >> Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa >> > > Hi Gema, and welcome back! > > I'm not sure that I'll make the meeting this week, so I only wanted to > raise one issue: there's a bug on launchpad, > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/886931. > > The person is complaining about the overall quality of Ubuntu (and > probably his specific own problems), but nevertheless, there's one point > that he raises that is quite important. I think that breaking commercial > software from working is a big problem for Ubuntu, and we should do > something about it. > > I'd love to participate in a discussion on this topic, but generally the > idea I had is somewhat reminiscent of Friendly - to have a list of various > commercial software applications tested for each new release, to know where > we could have a problem. > > So, if you decide to talk about it while I'm absent, fine, I'll read > logs later. If I'm present - then we could have a discussion, or just start > to think about it. > > Cheers. > > -- > Alex Lourie > > > > > -- > Ubuntu-qa mailing list > Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa > > -- Alex Lourie
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