On Wed, 18 Jan 2012, Denis Washington wrote:
Greetings Dennis,
> Given that this Ubuntu cycle is all about "precision" with little
> Who do you think? (Is that something to file a bug about?)
I think it's an excellent idea to streamline the Grub menu. Could you
perhaps try to mock up before/af
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 03:15:42PM -0500, Jeff Lane wrote:
> One question would be whether Twitter would be happy with us or not
> for adding who knows how many new clients at once (thinking of
> number of installs done within the first 2 weeks of a release)
> that's a huge hit to Twitter's service
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 08:32:35AM +, Paul Sladen wrote:
> I think it's an excellent idea to streamline the Grub menu. Could you
> perhaps try to mock up before/after "screenshots", so that it's clear
> each change that you'd like to make?
As the Ubuntu GRUB maintainer I'd prefer text. Since
Am 18.01.2012 12:43, schrieb Colin Watson:
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 08:32:35AM +, Paul Sladen wrote:
I think it's an excellent idea to streamline the Grub menu. Could you
perhaps try to mock up before/after "screenshots", so that it's clear
each change that you'd like to make?
As the Ubunt
Denis Washington writes:
> - The Ubuntu entries as the kernel version ("Ubuntu, with kernel
> 3.2.0-9...") that do not relate to anything that we usually present
> the user. It would be much nicer if we had the actual Ubuntu version
> stand there instead, so that the entry just becomes "Ubuntu 12.0
Also, on my system (as well as many others), I end up with 2 lines for
Windows 7 (or Vista, when I was using that)--only one of which boots. One
is the system partition; one is the main partition. Fixing this by hand
wouldn't be such a big deal if one didn't have to write part of a shell
script t
>
> I share this concern; our sysadmins had some visualisations of 11.10
> installs hitting the Ubuntu geoip service around release time, and
> although I forget the numbers the spike was pretty huge.
>
> Given our scale, I'd say that the neighbourly thing to do is for Ubuntu
> installs to only tou
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 01:37:20PM -0800, Dane Mutters wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> > Given our scale, I'd say that the neighbourly thing to do is for Ubuntu
> > installs to only touch Ubuntu network resources. However, that isn't to
> > say that an Ubuntu service couldn't deal with fetching a s
On Wed, 2012-01-18 at 13:37 -0800, Dane Mutters wrote:
> and have it propagate wherever it's needed
> without bombarding Twitter with installer traffic.
One marketing idea was to put gwibber dbus bindings into ubiquity so
people could post to twitter that they were installing Ubuntu.
A sort of "
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 08:16:32PM -0500, Martin Owens wrote:
> One marketing idea was to put gwibber dbus bindings into ubiquity so
> people could post to twitter that they were installing Ubuntu.
>
> A sort of "Hey tell you friends" type idea. It didn't happen I thinkf or
> technical reasons.
I
On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 01:28 +, Colin Watson wrote:
> Fetching something from the network and rendering it as part of the
> slideshow is much easier
Yes, technical problems. Pulling in the gwibber stack itself isn't
really required, it's a matter of loading the service (dbus) and then
hijackin
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