Re: Apport in stable releases [was: Re: Do you really want developers to be on this list]

2008-11-13 Thread Matthew East
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 2:25 AM, Scott Kitterman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have heard people discuss post-release regressions due to SRU/security > updates. I was chatting with another developer last night who said he'd > found Hardy very stable at release and less so as it got updated. > > P

Re: Do you really want developers to be on this list was (Re: Very bad status of hardware (especially wifi) support in ubuntu, due to the too many accumulated regressions)

2008-11-13 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Thursday 13 November 2008 22:43, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 21:12 -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:14:31 -0500 Mackenzie Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > wrote: > > >I haven't bothered trying to use the GUI with my iwl4965 and WEP. I > > >just expe

Re: Do you really want developers to be on this list was (Re: Very bad status of hardware (especially wifi) support in ubuntu, due to the too many accumulated regressions)

2008-11-13 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 21:12 -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:14:31 -0500 Mackenzie Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >I haven't bothered trying to use the GUI with my iwl4965 and WEP. I > >just expect NM to not work when it comes to WEP. > > I have 4965 and it worked

Re: Apport in stable releases [was: Re: Do you really want developers to be on this list]

2008-11-13 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:48:40 +0100 Martin Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Markus Hitter [2008-11-13 11:56 +0100]: >> While we can't "fix" developers, we can put more automatic helpers >> into place: >> >> - Keep Apport enabled even on stable releases. Hiding bugs doesn't >> help. > >We don

Re: Do you really want developers to be on this list was (Re: Very bad status of hardware (especially wifi) support in ubuntu, due to the too many accumulated regressions)

2008-11-13 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:14:31 -0500 Mackenzie Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I haven't bothered trying to use the GUI with my iwl4965 and WEP. I >just expect NM to not work when it comes to WEP. I have 4965 and it worked fine for me with KNetworkManager and WEP in Hardy. I have't had a nee

Re: Do you really want developers to be on this list was (Re: Very bad status of hardware (especially wifi) support in ubuntu, due to the too many accumulated regressions)

2008-11-13 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 21:58 +0100, Nicolas Deschildre wrote: > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 8:55 PM, Mackenzie Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 20:36 +1100, Sarah Hobbs wrote: > >> Take the intel 3945 card, for example. Vincenzo says it doesn't work > >> for him, under variou

Re: Do you really want developers to be on this list was (Re: Very bad status of hardware (especially wifi) support in ubuntu, due to the too many accumulated regressions)

2008-11-13 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 21:58 +0100, Nicolas Deschildre wrote: > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 8:55 PM, Mackenzie Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 20:36 +1100, Sarah Hobbs wrote: > >> Take the intel 3945 card, for example. Vincenzo says it doesn't work > >> for him, under variou

Re: Do you really want developers to be on this list was (Re: Very bad status of hardware (especially wifi) support in ubuntu, due to the too many accumulated regressions)

2008-11-13 Thread Nicolas Deschildre
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 8:55 PM, Mackenzie Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 20:36 +1100, Sarah Hobbs wrote: >> Take the intel 3945 card, for example. Vincenzo says it doesn't work >> for him, under various modes. Various users on the forums have also >> mentioned that the

dissappearing sym link

2008-11-13 Thread richard
Hi all , I've doned the asbestos pants On an upgrade from 8.04 to 8.10 the symlink from /usr/bin/gcc to /usr/bin/gcc-4.3 is not made. on a clean install of 8.10 its made. I verified it as well by reloading 8.04 and upgrading, and then do a clean install of 8.10. If I put that on the forums it wil

RE: Do you really want developers to be on this list was (Re: Very bad status of hardware (especially wifi) support in ubuntu, due to the too many accumulated regressions)

2008-11-13 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 20:36 +1100, Sarah Hobbs wrote: > Take the intel 3945 card, for example. Vincenzo says it doesn't work > for him, under various modes. Various users on the forums have also > mentioned that their systems don't work with these cards. > > However, other users on the forums, m

Re: Do you really want developers to be on this list was (Re: Very bad status of hardware (especially wifi) support in ubuntu, due to the too many accumulated regressions)

2008-11-13 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Thursday 13 November 2008 05:13, Andrew Sayers wrote: > Sarah - this should make sense on its own, but it builds on an idea I > suggested in > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2008-November/006250 >.html > > which you might provide a little background to this post. > > > 3)

Re: Anyone else lost hardware buttons after update from intrepid-proposed?

2008-11-13 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 00:07 +, (``-_-´´) -- Fernando wrote: > There is an huge risk in running with proposed. Well, "huge" might be overstating it a little bit > Those who run with them enable, should be also tracking them on LP. Thanks for the heads-up, but I know what I am doing :) I run p

Re: Do you really want developers to be on this list was (Re: Very bad status of hardware (especially wifi) support in ubuntu, due to the too many accumulated regressions)

2008-11-13 Thread Chris Coulson
2008/11/13 Andrew Sayers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Stephan Hermann wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 11:56 +0100, Markus Hitter wrote: > >> > >> - Allow downgrades. This should help narrowing potential causes of > >> the trouble. > > > > This is something I don't understand. > > When I upgrade to

Re: Do you really want developers to be on this list was (Re: Very bad status of hardware (especially wifi) support in ubuntu, due to the too many accumulated regressions)

2008-11-13 Thread Andrew Sayers
Stephan Hermann wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 11:56 +0100, Markus Hitter wrote: >> >> - Allow downgrades. This should help narrowing potential causes of >> the trouble. > > This is something I don't understand. > When I upgrade to a new release, I always think (or is it knowing): "Ok, > fo

Re: Do you really want developers to be on this list was (Re: Very bad status of hardware (especially wifi) support in ubuntu, due to the too many accumulated regressions)

2008-11-13 Thread Sean Hodges
> Canonical does provide Support for Ubuntu for You, when you want to > pay > it. If not, fix it yourself, or help us fixing it e.g. join the irc > and > point people to it. If people can't help you directly, because of not > having the broken hardware, you can try to provide this hardware to > the

Re: Do you really want developers to be on this list was (Re: Very bad status of hardware (especially wifi) support in ubuntu, due to the too many accumulated regressions)

2008-11-13 Thread Stephan Hermann
Hi Markus, On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 11:56 +0100, Markus Hitter wrote: > Am 13.11.2008 um 10:32 schrieb Stephan Hermann: > > > But reality told me different. > > Stephan, your points about the unfortunate truth are valid. Sad, but true. > Nevertheless, software quality is one of the keys to succ

Apport in stable releases [was: Re: Do you really want developers to be on this list]

2008-11-13 Thread Martin Pitt
Markus Hitter [2008-11-13 11:56 +0100]: > While we can't "fix" developers, we can put more automatic helpers > into place: > > - Keep Apport enabled even on stable releases. Hiding bugs doesn't > help. We don't disable Apport in stable releases because we want to hide bugs. The reasons are,

Hardware regressions was (Re: Do you really want developers to be on this list was (Re: Very bad status of hardware (especially wifi) support in ubuntu, due to the too many accumulated regressions))

2008-11-13 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:00:36 + Vincenzo Ciancia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> If a distributor adds more goodies to the kernel, then be happy, but >> that doesn't mean, that it really works...even when the distributor puts >> the hardware on the list of supported hardware. >> > >I hope this

Re: Do you really want developers to be on this list was (Re: Very bad status of hardware (especially wifi) support in ubuntu, due to the too many accumulated regressions)

2008-11-13 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 13.11.2008 um 10:32 schrieb Stephan Hermann: > But reality told me different. Stephan, your points about the unfortunate truth are valid. Nevertheless, software quality is one of the keys to success. I've just filed the second bug where one of the Gnome applets segfaults in a standard si

Re: Do you really want developers to be on this list was (Re: Very bad status of hardware (especially wifi) support in ubuntu, due to the too many accumulated regressions)

2008-11-13 Thread Andrew Sayers
Sarah - this should make sense on its own, but it builds on an idea I suggested in https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2008-November/006250.html which you might provide a little background to this post. > 3) There are plenty of other hardware regressions by which I am affected

RE: Do you really want developers to be on this list was (Re: Very bad status of hardware (especially wifi) support in ubuntu, due to the too many accumulated regressions)

2008-11-13 Thread Sarah Hobbs
Apologies for breaking threading, i'm not subscribed to this list anymore, as the S/N ratio was too low. However, this part is interesting. Please CC me on any responses to this mail. Vincenzo writes: "2) Another bug affected me at random (WIFI), and there was nothing I could do about that, and

Re: Do you really want developers to be on this list was (Re: Very bad status of hardware (especially wifi) support in ubuntu, due to the too many accumulated regressions)

2008-11-13 Thread Stephan Hermann
Hi, On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 09:00 +, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: > > If a distributor adds more goodies to the kernel, then be happy, but > > that doesn't mean, that it really works...even when the distributor puts > > the hardware on the list of supported hardware. > > > > I hope this is not rea

Re: Do you really want developers to be on this list was (Re: Very bad status of hardware (especially wifi) support in ubuntu, due to the too many accumulated regressions)

2008-11-13 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
> If a distributor adds more goodies to the kernel, then be happy, but > that doesn't mean, that it really works...even when the distributor puts > the hardware on the list of supported hardware. > I hope this is not really the idea of the ubuntu developers on this topic, because if so, then I

Re: Anyone else lost hardware buttons after update from intrepid-proposed?

2008-11-13 Thread Chris Coulson
2008/11/13 (``-_-´´) -- Fernando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Olá Mario e a todos. > > ===snip=== > > I never understood why the proposed rep is not pined down/back... > > -- > BUGabundo :o) > (``-_-´´) http://LinuxNoDEI.BUGabundo.net > Linux user #443786GPG key 1024D/A1784EBB > My new micro-b

Re: Do you really want developers to be on this list was (Re: Very bad status of hardware (especially wifi) support in ubuntu, due to the too many accumulated regressions)

2008-11-13 Thread Stephan Hermann
Moins, On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 02:27 +, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: > On 11/11/2008 Scott Kitterman wrote: > > > > I would encourage you (and others, you certainly aren't the only one) > > to hold > > your temper and if you can't say something helpful, just take your > > hands off > > the keybo