On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 06:39:59AM +0530, Venkatraman S wrote: > Have you contributed to Ubuntu? or aware of the development/bug-reporting > process in Ubuntu? > If not, then let me summarize for you : It clearly says that a bug found in > upstream can either be fixed by the developer or be passed upstream - and i > personally have done this and also know that along with me thousand others > do the same.
I really think that should not be "or" but "and". Isn't it the responsibility of a maintainer to ensure that, for the greater good of the greater number, they should always forward the patch upstream? > This is an unfortunate situation in the FOSS world - consolidation and > cooperation is something that the FOSS world lacks - attacking different > schools of development should be refrained from and the best teachings of > all schools should be nurtured(as what Kapil referred to) and cultivated. I > am waiting for a true-next-generation OS that would be a mix(+advanced) of > the present OS'es and give it for free. >From what I can gather, people are only criticising the fact that a little more proactiveness on the part of the Ubuntu maintainer could help a lot. Thanks. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
