On Wednesday 27 January 2010 23:15:37 Dustin Kirkland wrote: > On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 6:40 AM, Alvin <i...@alvin.be> wrote: > ... > > > This is a real-life scenario. Is it common? I don't know. It's not free > > of struggles as you can see. So, this is a plea for quality. Cloud > > Computing might be very important, but please don't lose sight of the > > little guys who just want some 'classic' servers. > > As one of the Canonical Ubuntu Server Developers working on our Ubuntu > Enterprise Cloud, I'll respond to this ... > > We absolutely have a focus on quality for the "classic servers", as > you call them. Basic Ubuntu Servers are our foundation, truly, for > all of our Cloud Computing efforts, both as a Virtualization Guest, > and a Virtualization Hypervisor. > > Your email is well constructed, and having a targeted bug list is an > excellent start. My guidance to you would be: > * Help get each of those bugs into a triaged state, and with an > appropriate priority set, and filed against the correct package. > * Re-test them with the latest development code, the 10.04 release > that's under development. > * Provide all the information you possibly can to help a developer > work to solve those problem. > * Nominate them for release, probably targeting Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid at > this point. > * If you have hacks, work arounds, fixes, or patches, please, by all > means, attach them to the bugs, as again, this will help a developer > get an appropriate fix into Ubuntu sooner than later. > * And have just a bit of patience and understanding that we have 100s > (or 1000s) of bugs, and merely a 5-person Ubuntu Server Team in > Canonical (plus a few dozen more Ubuntu and Debian community members > that help out).
Thanks. I appreciate the suggestions and all your work on this. It's about time I start testing Lucid. Eventually we will make the switch and then stay on Lucid on all non-desktop machines until the next LTS release. -- ubuntu-server mailing list ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
