On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 08:41:39AM +0000, Mick wrote: > > This video brought up an interesting question by my friend (an ubuntu > > user). How would one go about getting Canonical or the ubuntu community > > to change their practice of not contributing fixes back upstream?
It's all about dev mentality and habits. It a known issue with Canonical. AFAIK, they are trying to change. That's what Mark Shuttleworth did announce at least (don't know the facts). > So, essentially we are > talking about different user profiles here. The video is more about developpers than users. The upstream (as I understand here from the video and the Joshua Doll's post) is what we find upstream from the maintainers of the distribution. I guess that Joshua wasn't talking about the users at all. -- Nicolas Sebrecht
