Re: Ubuntu development - joining...

2007-11-03 Thread Tim Hull
> The best approach is to search a project/issue that you are interested > in, which seems to be improving the laptop experience. There is also a > lengthy document from Andreas Lloyd which lots of contacts: > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ContributeToUbuntu Thanks for the info. The Ubuntu membership

Re: Ubuntu development - joining...

2007-11-03 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Samstag, den 03.11.2007, 17:42 -0400 schrieb Tim Hull: > Hi, Hello Tim, > I have been generally lurking around Ubuntu development for several > months now (since about the Feisty release), and previously had done > the same around the Warty/Hoary time period. Though I have found > Ubuntu to b

Re: Ubuntu development - joining...

2007-11-03 Thread Emmet Hikory
On 11/4/07, Tim Hull wrote: > Anyway, stemming from the issues I've been having, I've been quite > interested in becoming involved in Ubuntu development. However, so far, my > attempts have seemed futile. For one thing, I noticed a few bugs several > weeks before Gutsy release - and posted detail

Re: Ubuntu development...

2007-08-28 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Sun, 2007-08-26 at 00:26 -0400, Tim Hull wrote: > 3. Currently, each Ubuntu release is based on a new version of the > core libraries and toolchain, synced from Debian testing/unstable. > While this may mean that each version has the absolute latest and > greatest, it also makes them more pron

Re: Ubuntu development...

2007-08-25 Thread Christopher James Halse Rogers
On Sun, 2007-08-26 at 05:41 +0100, Chris Warburton wrote: > On Sun, 2007-08-26 at 00:26 -0400, Tim Hull wrote: > > > 2. The current default fonts look dreadfully ugly. For one thing, they > > are MASSIVE (on Gutsy at least), and they use a type of hinting which > > makes them look quite ugly when

Re: Ubuntu development...

2007-08-25 Thread Joel Bryan Juliano
On 8/26/07, Chris Warburton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, 2007-08-26 at 00:26 -0400, Tim Hull wrote: > > > 2. The current default fonts look dreadfully ugly. For one thing, they > > are MASSIVE (on Gutsy at least), and they use a type of hinting which > > makes them look quite ugly when

Re: Ubuntu development...

2007-08-25 Thread Chris Warburton
On Sun, 2007-08-26 at 00:26 -0400, Tim Hull wrote: > 2. The current default fonts look dreadfully ugly. For one thing, they > are MASSIVE (on Gutsy at least), and they use a type of hinting which > makes them look quite ugly when compared to OS X. What I suggest here > is to 1) revert the auto-DP

Re: Ubuntu development...

2007-08-25 Thread Tim Hull
On 8/25/07, Sarah Hobbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Heya! > > Wow, that previous response was quite harsh - that was probably why it > was sent off-list. Just realized that. I'm still unsure which key components you want to change, or how yo

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: Ubuntu development...

2007-08-25 Thread Jonathan Jesse
On Saturday 25 August 2007 12:57:21 Tim Hull wrote: > > The fact that you submit bug reports and do not follow up / patch them > > yourself > > shows a severe disinterest in *really* helping ubuntu and (like most > > new devel's in all projects) just want to focus on the hot-dog stuff. > > I do fol

Re: Ubuntu development...

2007-08-25 Thread Tim Hull
> > The fact that you submit bug reports and do not follow up / patch them > yourself > shows a severe disinterest in *really* helping ubuntu and (like most > new devel's in all projects) just want to focus on the hot-dog stuff. I do follow up - in fact, I've often posted additional info on my bu

Re: Ubuntu development...

2007-08-24 Thread Murat Gunes
On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 18:54 +0100, Chris Warburton wrote: > I'd try making a spec page on the Ubuntu wiki > ( https://wiki.ubuntu.com ), something like > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OutOfBoxIpodSupport (I just made that up, it > will be a blank page), along with an entry in Launchpad. Say exactly > wha

Re: Ubuntu development...

2007-08-24 Thread Chris Warburton
On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 13:42 -0400, Tim Hull wrote: > I'm curious - where can I help out? I do file some bugs on launchpad, > but hardly ever get any followup - understandable, given that many of > the issues at hand aren't bugs per se. I have indeed come up with > some specific ideas to help res