Re: Proposal to delay release of Precise Pangolin

2011-10-18 Thread Joseph Toppi
I really do think bugs will hurt the long term health of the project. Up through 11.04 I had always gotten a few bugfixes with each upgrade. I had a few random bugs that I was living with, but for the most part everything worked. I had 3d acceleration with my nvidia card, I could use a second monit

Re: Proposal to delay release of Precise Pangolin

2011-10-18 Thread Martin Owens
On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 22:15 -0400, nick rundy wrote: > Yet the bug has existed for more than 3 years. Sadly, the same can be > said for many other bugs. To be fair to the bug: * No one answered the question 'did you try compact layout' * Nautilus is a 'special' codebase which I wouldn't want to

Proposal to delay release of Precise Pangolin

2011-10-18 Thread nick rundy
Canonical/Ubuntu, please don't feel obligated to release Precise Pangolin in April 2012. A delayed release would strengthen stability and allow more bugs to be fixed in both Unity and GNOME 3.2. Considering the "long-lived" nature of an LTS release, it would be preferable if Precise Pangolin w

Re: The number of blocks reserved for root should be reconsidered

2011-10-18 Thread Vesa Paatero
Thanks, Bear. I think, though, that when you are running out of disk space, performance becomes secondary as the priority shifts towards getting as much space as you can. So, when you don't have space you prefer a low reservation level and when you do have abundant space, the reservation level