On 2 August 2012 17:31, Sebastien Bacher <seb...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > What do people think about turning whoopsie off for 12.04.1?
I strongly support turning off the error message pop-ups for Ubuntu 12.04. I run a lab where we regularly get visitors who have never knowingly used Linux on a PC before. While the popup is supposed to eventually make Ubuntu less buggy, it feels like Ubuntu is more buggy. Therefore I've disabled apport since upgrading the lab to 12.04. I was surprised when I realized that it was not considered a bug for these error reports to be kept turned on once the release was final. I also was confused that System Settings>Privacy>Diagnostics>Send error reports didn't actually stop the popups. I think deploying this post-release for the first time in an LTS will cause many average users to believe that 12.04 LTS is not very high quality and not ready for use. We want people to use Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Constantly reminding users that 12.04 is a broken buggy operating system will likely push them to use something else. Something else could be 11.10, a different Linux distribution, or Windows. This is discouraging to those who put a lot of time and work into fixing as many bugs as possible for this release. I agree that we should keep error reporting on for 12.10 and future releases. I expect that the popups will be quite a bit less frequent/intrusive for 14.04 LTS. Jeremy -- Ubuntu-release mailing list Ubuntu-release@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-release
