Re: idea for 10.04

2009-09-30 Thread Sarah Hobbs
On 25/09/09 16:52, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: > isnt the internet connection required thought to sync time with an ntp > server at somepoint during the installation. It tries to sync, but the installation doesn't stop if it can't find an internet connection. There's nothing in the installer that r

Re: What is going on

2009-04-21 Thread Sarah Hobbs
On 22/04/09 14:08, richard wrote: > On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 23:04:10 -0300 > Derek Broughton wrote: > >> richard wrote: >> >>> In order to try and get Virtualbox up I reloaded 2.6.28-11 server, >>> reloaded virtualbox, it starts but borks staring the VM >>> >>> I ran apt-get update, in case I had only

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

ISO Testing, before 1700 UTC Thursday

2008-09-17 Thread Sarah Hobbs
Hey all, If you have any spare time, and feel like testing Ubuntu, the Ubuntu Release Team would appreciate more testers for the Intrepid Ibex Alpha 6 ISOs. The standard warnings about how it might kill your hard drive, etc, might apply - but no one's found them this far. These images should be

Re: Bugs marked incomplete

2008-09-03 Thread Sarah Hobbs
Brian Murray wrote: There are actually two sub-statuses, if you will, to Incomplete. They are "Incomplete w/o response" and "Incomplete w/ response" both of which are searchable for via the Launchpad UI. When a bug report receives a response after being set to a status of Incomplete, the sub-st

Re: No "run" menu item?

2008-07-06 Thread Sarah Hobbs
Scott Kitterman wrote: Does Gnome not have something like Katapult? That would seem to make this kind of discussion irrelevant. Yes. It's called gnome-do. It rocks harder than katapult, with the extra plugins. I'm hoping it's installed by default at some point. Hobbsee signature.asc

Re: Incomplete with no response >30 days

2008-05-25 Thread Sarah Hobbs
HggdH wrote: > No. It does not. It does make sense for *BOTH* developers and > bug-squadders to discuss and reach a consensus. We do not impose > on YOU how to develop, you should not impose on us how to triage. Telling you how to triage? No. Finding a way of saying "you do not need to waste

Re: Incomplete with no response >30 days

2008-05-25 Thread Sarah Hobbs
HggdH wrote: We also discussed what the solution should be. ScottK is going to mail the ubuntu-devel-discuss with the proposal that we came up with. If that is accepted then the changes will be announced here. I am not quite sure I understand. So the proposal will be discussed by developers wit

Re: Do mirrors for daily snapshots exist?

2008-04-10 Thread Sarah Hobbs
Scott (angrykeyboarder) wrote: Fine and dandy but https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+cdmirrors only lists mirrors for *releases*, not for daily snapshots. Ubuntu doesn't mirror the dailies. I'd guess under 50 people (likely much less) download any given daily. It would likely require more bandwi

Re: Massive breakage on my system with April 1st updates

2008-04-01 Thread Sarah Hobbs
Conrad Knauer wrote: You manually installed the 2.6.24-13 kernel, right? All I did was press the "Reload", "Mark all upgrades" and "Apply" buttons in Synaptic. [...] AH!!! I see what happened: I have virtualbox-ose-modules-generic installed, which just upgraded its latest version depends o

Re: Graphical Installer & bootloader

2008-03-24 Thread Sarah Hobbs
Ming wrote: Perhaps the ubuntu developers might want to consider using a graphical installer & bootloader in the next release (hardy). I'm currently using ubuntu studio gutsy, and I think the gnome desktop is great ;) my notebook's LCD is well recognized at 1280x800. So I think it's a bit ironic

Re: What is "terranova"?

2008-03-13 Thread Sarah Hobbs
(``-_-´´) -- Fernando wrote: > /etc/hostname in daily hardy has "terranova" as hostname. why is that? > What does it mean? Many things, but it's one of the names of the buildds. As for why it's there...i've no idea. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Mod

Re: Accepted: ubuntu-vm-builder 0.2 (source)

2008-02-22 Thread Sarah Hobbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Soren Hansen wrote: > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:22:43PM +1100, Sarah Hobbs wrote: >>> This is a bugfix release that fixes a few typos (well, several >>> instances of the same typo, really), and fixes a call to qemu-img >>&g

Re: Accepted: ubuntu-vm-builder 0.2 (source)

2008-02-21 Thread Sarah Hobbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Soren Hansen wrote: > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:35:14AM -, Soren Hansen wrote: >>* New release. > > Sorry, that was a little.. um.. terse :) > > This is a bugfix release that fixes a few typos (well, several instances > of the same typo, rea

Re: disk-manager by default

2008-02-09 Thread Sarah Hobbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Saturday 09 February 2008 16:43, Piotr Zaryk wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I noticed the disk-manager is checked as milestone for alpha5. Is there a >> chance to get it included in Ubuntu? The app is very stable and it's a >> great id

Re: Miro (Re: New Programs for Hardy?)

2008-02-08 Thread Sarah Hobbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Conrad Knauer wrote: > On Feb 9, 2008 12:55 AM, Emmet Hikory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> It certainly sounds like the sort of 'killer app' that would attract >>> people to Ubuntu. >>> >>> If Miro can't be added to Hardy, would it be possible for

Re: Minimal Hardy Alpha Images

2008-02-04 Thread Sarah Hobbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Stahlir wrote: > Hi! > > Is it possible to create minimal cd images of hardy alpha releases? > I think about an image that is less than 100MB and contains only the > absolute necessary packages to run the live cd. > Add a torrent for this image

Re: Alpha 3 freeze ahead, let's go squash bugs

2008-01-10 Thread Sarah Hobbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 (``-_-´´) -- Fernando wrote: > Its the end of the 9th of January, and there are still many updates coming > for hardy. > Aint the "soft" freeze working? > > Doesn't apply for universe, where there are a lot of uploads going on. (and did you really

Re: Strawman: Change the Ubuntu Release Cycle

2007-12-31 Thread Sarah Hobbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Evan wrote: > My original worry in starting this thread was that the six-month cycle was > too short. I find that the normal releases aren't *quite* stable enough for > every-day use (even in a home environment) because of the features that are > only

Re: [Fwd: Re: Appropriateness of posts to this list (Was Re: evince crash)]

2007-12-06 Thread Sarah Hobbs
Blaise Alleyne wrote: > True, but there's the additional question - is this the appropriate > place for that sort of discussion? In other words, sure, the developers > need a place to discuss things free from the mob, but the mob also > needs to be able to participate and voice their concerns/appro

Re: Our best foot forward

2007-11-14 Thread Sarah Hobbs
How much of all this tutorial stuff is already in the man pages? Hobbsee -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: GIMP *final* release for Gutsy?

2007-11-12 Thread Sarah Hobbs
Peter wrote: > It's not as simple is that, you need a sponsor for your patches to be > approved. And currently there are 45 "bugs" in the sponsorship queue, > 5 are committed, 4 in progress, 3 triaged, 16 confirmed (one as late as > 2006-03-03) and 17 new the oldest dating back to 2006-12-14. > >

Re: GIMP *final* release for Gutsy?

2007-11-12 Thread Sarah Hobbs
Greg K Nicholson wrote: > We'd only have to do this *once* for each package of which a non-final > version was released in Ubuntu final. Once the final version of the > package is available, there need be no more updates (beyond what are > already done). > > Hopefully a commitment to doing this

Re: Accepted a few uploads which are not in gutsy-changes

2007-10-22 Thread Sarah Hobbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 That wasn't me. I only accepted things on the night preceding my mail. Please contact Jonathan Riddell, who made that upload, or other people on the KDE team. Hobbsee > Where this: > kdelibs-data (4:3.5.8-0ubuntu2) to 4:3.5.8-0ubuntu3 > kdelibs4c2a

Re: Ubuntu-devel-discuss Digest, Vol 11, Issue 27

2007-10-16 Thread Sarah Hobbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 And here's your "Please ignore all my bugs" pass. Consider it taped to your forehead. When we have users like this, i wonder at the point of looking to fix bugs at all. They clearly don't care, and whatever we do will never be good enough for them.

Re: 4 More days...

2007-10-15 Thread Sarah Hobbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Oh, just let me wave my magic wand, and fix it all! Yay for unproductive mails! Sometimes i wish even ubuntu-devel-discuss was moderated, so we don't get utterly useless mails like this. Scott (angrykeyboarder) wrote: > till the release of the most

Re: Gutsy Release page points to beta DVDs only

2007-09-28 Thread Sarah Hobbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please see releases.ubuntu.com - this is a more sensible place for released, officially supported versions of Ubuntu anwyay. (Yes, there's a bug filed about how it is confusing) Hobbsee Aaron Whitehouse wrote: > I have been eagerly awaiting the rele

Re: A responsible use of the "incomplete" status.

2007-09-27 Thread Sarah Hobbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You know, it's mails like this that make me really feel that it's not worth triaging bugs, or aiming for a reasonably decent QA. It's when you start dealing with ~1000 bugs over a few source packages that this kind of stuff gets interesting. Yes, one

Re: Activate Desktop-Effects: Yes/No-Button?

2007-09-27 Thread Sarah Hobbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Every time you bring up yet another icon, or yet another popup box (especially on startup), God kills a kitten. Please, think of the kittens! Let's not follow MS Windows' trends, here. Besides, compiz may grow on people - so they may only wish to tu

Re: That need to close bugs?

2007-09-17 Thread Sarah Hobbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As one of those who triages various KDE bugs...in the area of KDEBase, in particular, there are around 450 open bugs, we *have* to close invalid bugs. There are around 750, with the INVALID and WONTFIX bugs included. There is simply no way to deal wi

Re: python-cjson is on Debian but not on Ubuntu

2007-09-10 Thread Sarah Hobbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Scott Kitterman wrote: > I believe that generally new packages get synced automatically, but I'm not > 100% certain. > > Scott K > All of them do, unless they are blacklisted. The blacklist is at http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-archive/sync-black

Re: Apprenticeship periods at university, working on Ubuntu!

2007-09-08 Thread Sarah Hobbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: > but in the meantime I would like to check if there is some people at > ubuntu who is able to mentor a student from inside. The idea is to let > the student write from scratch or refine an existing blueprint, jointly > chosen b

Re: new packages freeze policy

2007-09-08 Thread Sarah Hobbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Could someone remind me the purpose of this distinction? Why should > newer, buggier packages be given a later freeze time? > Because nothing else can possibly depend on them. Whereas with current packages, if you upgrade package x that package y

Re: Ubuntu development...

2007-08-25 Thread Sarah Hobbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Heya! Wow, that previous response was quite harsh - that was probably why it was sent off-list. Tim Hull wrote: > I do follow up - in fact, I've often posted additional info on my bug > reports as to the origin of the issue/suggestions as to what cou

Re: Tribe 3 freeze ahead, lets go squash bugs

2007-07-14 Thread Sarah Hobbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sarah Hobbs wrote: > Hello Ubuntu developers, > > The expected release date of Gutsy Tribe 3 is this coming Thursday. > > We are about to freeze main by Tuesday. Please get in touch with a > member of the release team if you hav

Re: gstreamer0.8|0.10-swfdec in launchpad

2007-06-30 Thread Sarah Hobbs
://archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/universe Packages gst-plugins0.8 | 0.8.12-6ubuntu3 | http://mirror.pacific.net.au gutsy/universe Sources gst-plugins0.8 | 0.8.12-6ubuntu3 | http://archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/universe Sources (and was it necessary to send it to so many lists?) Hobbsee Sarah Hobbs wrote: > ht

Re: gstreamer0.8|0.10-swfdec in launchpad

2007-06-30 Thread Sarah Hobbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gst-plugins0.8 Launchpad goes by source, not binary. Hobbsee shirish wrote: > Hi all, > i would like to know what is gonna happen to > gstreamer0.8-swfdec package. There is no overview of it in launchpad,

MOTU meeting in 4 hours!

2007-06-28 Thread Sarah Hobbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi everyone! There's a MOTU[0] meeting in 4 hours. The agenda[1] has a tentative list of discussion topics. [0] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/Meetings Hope to see you there! Hobbsee -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Ver

Re: Launchpad bug workflow change

2007-06-19 Thread Sarah Hobbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nice change! However, we've missed a case completely...I'm not sure how I didnt think of it at UDS. Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote: > Phillip Susi wrote: >> Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote: >>> If you are not a developer then it is misleading to set it to In >>>

Re: using reportbug & reportbug-ng for reporting bugs upstream to debian

2007-06-16 Thread Sarah Hobbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 shirish wrote: > Hi all, > I've been reporting bugs for a while & reporting upstream bugs at > times when it was necessary. Sometime back I was introduced to > reprortbug & although it is a very good tool it seems something is > amiss. So lemme ma

Re: Jackd - update 7.04 repository with version 0.103.0 compiled with default tmpdir=/dev/shm

2007-04-29 Thread Sarah Hobbs
Hi. Please see http://wiki.ubuntu.com/TimeBasedReleases Thanks! Hobbsee Simon Lewis wrote: > Dear developers > > Please update the 7.04 repository with the current version of jackd > compiled with default tmpdir=/dev/shm - thus maximising system performance. > > Also QJackCtl needs updating

Re: Opening development for Gutsy Gibbon

2007-04-25 Thread Sarah Hobbs
That toolchain is sure going to take a while, if it's taking 11 months - and even then, Mar 26 2008 isnt a Thursday. :P Must be meaning april. Hobbsee Matthias Klose wrote: > Gutsy is now open in "frozen" mode to allow the upload / sync of basic and > some > infrastructure packages first, whi

Re: Bug triaging

2007-04-07 Thread Sarah Hobbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 If it's fixed in feisty, then it can be marked as fix released. Edgy too, as long as feisty has the fix (ie, it's not a regression). Fix committed is when the fix is in svn somewhere, but not in the ubuntu archives yet. Hope that helps! Hobbsee Gi

Re: Activating the CUPS snmp backend in Ubuntu Feisty

2007-03-01 Thread Sarah Hobbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I suspect that if you did that, two things would happen: 1. People would complain that a lot of the apps were out of date. 2. Developer motivation would be very low for the LTS releases, as it's only bugfixing, with nothing new and interesting. Co