es until they have
been renamed (although I don't have the necessary software to
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accurate to say that the final element is a true replacement for the
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Ubuntu itself, although derivative. The relationship between Netbook
Remix and Ubuntu has been more clearly explained elsewhere (1).
1: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/151
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likely we are to be informed of a fix being available somewhere, and
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exception of specifically hinted packages, all other transitions, etc.
are managed entirely through apt.
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duplicate work between groups who may not share communication
channels.
1: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports
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prior to Warty Warthog), a solution may be easy to develop, or the bug
may be trivially reproducible, but this awaits some developer having
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seful for packages where there has been no update in some time,
and for which there is no watch file, so automated identification of
newer upstream versions cannot be performed, and to rely on either
Debian or UEHS (1) in other cases.
1: http://qa.ubuntuwire.com/uehs/
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> http://pileofstuff.org/ubuntu-survey/analyses.html
This is very helpful to understand the purpose of the questionnaire.
Thank you for posting it.
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(``-_-´´) -- BUGabundo wrote:
> On Thursday 22 January 2009 16:27:42 Emmet Hikory wrote:
>> * Point of contact for Ubuntu users to reach Ubuntu developers
>>
>> There are lots of reasons that users want to reach developers.
>> For many of them, there are more spe
se that the MOTU Release team be responsible
for approving any exception requests to this deadline, in those cases
where there is an overriding rationale to include completely new code
between NewPackageProposalDeadline and FeatureFreeze.
1: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PartnerUploadDeadline
2: https://wiki.ubu
er highlight best practices and procedures for
further progress to contact the XDG-games team, the Debian Games team ,
or the Ubuntu Marketing team with proposals for documentation changes to
meet the desired goals.
1: http://pinstack.blogspot.com/2009/04/announcing-ubuntu-gaming-team.html
2: ht
choose to do nothing.
In other cases, where it's not desired, the user could get a longer
battery life, or improved machine health, or just a snappier response.
In cases where this is a result of the Ubuntu code, and represents a
fixable bug, notification to the user could result in better bug
report
a lot less effort, often for exactly the same results, but
it's only those that do it who make Ubuntu what it is. Nearly anyone
who discovers Ubuntu Just Works probably has a machine that's a close
match to some user that is involved, and probably has use cases that
match those that are in
ly sure of the full set of
complaints by others to be comfortable generating a bulleted list that
would be complete enough for direct response.
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> & i want to be one ot the teem of ubunto
Great! You probably want to start at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ContributeToUbuntu . That page has lots of
links and pointers to different ways in which you can help.
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these URLs can be complicated to construct (and don't have links,
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Tim Gardner wrote:
> On 11/22/2010 01:02 PM, Emmet Hikory wrote:
>> Towards that end, each flavour team should consider which
>> installation targets they wish to support, and identify a product
>> manager who will be available as a contact for the release team to
>>
hardware is present, or into which environment we expect that hardware
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1: http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/
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distraction, or just a sufficient span of time.
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p meaning anything. While the adm group does grant the ability
to access many files, it does not provide for any sort of root access.
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s likely pending preparation of a quantal-specific patch along with
comprehensive test results documenting the impact, etc. as required by the
SRU process.
0: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates
1: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/icu/+bug/1037588
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g-buildpackage -us -uc -b` (or calling debian/rules targets
directly if you prefer). Note that the results of this procedure may differ
from that above due to differences between your local system and the pristine
environments used by build management tools, so this may not be a complete
test of ho
ocumentation discusses a few ways to do this, and there are
many variations you might find online. The simplest to document
is to install the ubuntu-dev-tools package and run `mk-sbuild`,
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All,
A draft procedure (1) for processing the Universe Sponsor queue
was discussed at the recent MOTU Meeting, and it was determined that
it would be appropriate to post here for further discussion. It was
also considered that a similar procedure might be appropriate for use
when processing t
Le samedi 26 mai, Adrien Cunin a écrit :
> You say self-assigning when beginning a review, but I guess the sponsor
> will stay assigned once the bug is closed. See below why I don't agree
> with that. IMO adding a comment is enough, if you think you will need
> some time to review.
With regard
On 5/28/07, Jan Claeys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The Gtk1 XMMS has been ported to Gtk2 under the name beep-media-player.
> Some time ago the beep-media-player people started a new project (BMPx),
> but the classic BMP was forked to become the Audacious project, which is
> essentially the latest
There have been recent discussions of whether the
DebainMaintainerField spec (0) applied for new packages uploaded to
REVU or sourced from other (non-Debian) repositories, and how the
Maintainer field should be managed when there is no Debian maintainer.
The spec says, in part "If a source
On 6/11/07, William Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Emmet Hikory wrote:
<...>
> > Default Maintainer: "Ubuntu Core Developers" or Ubuntu "MOTU
> > Developers", as appropriate
>
> They should be the default, but more specific maintai
just not appropriately assigned. Please note that my opinions
about the reliability of the "Assigned" field in no way represent an
endorsement of access restrictions to this field.
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g with the bugs will need to set the status appropriately.
Another workflow example that requires this is a member of bugsquad
who discovers that a bug in a package pulled directly from Debian has
been fixed in a newer version, and needs to set the status to "Fix
Released" with a com
ppropriate, whereas I have encountered a large number of bugs that
should have been "Fix Released" that were in earlier states, the
majority of which had been fixed through external (upstream, Debian)
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can be marked Fixed before they come to the
attention of a developer reduce the developer workload considerably.
In order to preserve the valuable triage work being done by the
community, it is essential that the "Fix Released" category not be
excluded from those available.
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the use of schroot on LVM snapshots for this. The
Documentation available (1) is targeted for users of sbuild, but the
basic process is not so different when preparing disposable chroots
for use with schroot -c .
1: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SbuildLVMHowto
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tion, is there any other file based package management tool which is
> dependencies aware (I mean installed packages dependency)?
gdebi will install files, after checking dependencies (and even
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latest set of packages, adding a more frequently updated mirror as a
secondary source is a possible local solution, such that most packages
are taken from the local archive, and out-of-date packages are taken
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will give you a better
understanding of various prioritisation procedures. You might also
want to contact the Desktop team, as many of your bugs seem to be
related to the default end-user experience, which this team follows
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is for ongoing efforts.
1: http://mac-on-linux.sourceforge.net/
2: http://basilisk.cebix.net/
3: http://www.gnustep.org/
4: http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/
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in queue for
available developer time. This effort may be accelerated by
investigation of the relevant Ubuntu variation, and the presentation
of a patch for review by developers (although it may be slowed by
interruption of the developers for repeated review of an incomplete
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> Am Freitag, den 09.11.2007, 11:12 +0900 schrieb Emmet Hikory:
> > If you have a powerpc machine, the MacOnLinux (1) virtual layer
> > may be useful for many applications (although using alternate virtual
> > machines may be as conv
plemented.
In the absence of such volunteers, I would submit that it may be
worth attempting to encourage users to trust software distributed from
Ubuntu-signed repositories, with knowledge that this software includes
an additional set of patches beyond those available upstream,
specifically targe
atches are applied to address old bugs,
new version are only very rarely imported, to reduce the chance of a
new change causing additional bugs.
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y not be perfect (this is also the case
for Ubuntu packages). If getdeb packages are installed, the getdeb
comments and getdeb bugtracker are the appropriate support mechanisms,
rather than the Ubuntu IRC channels, forums, mailing lists, or
bugtracker.
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engine rather than the local CPU. I suppose it depends on what
transformations are being applied, but it may be worth investigation.
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right thing, the system should robustly handle as
many cases as possible, referring the remainder to documentation. If
users are required to manually execute scripts to accomplish goals
they do not understand, this only adds an additional layer of
indirection, for which additional documentatio
to try a hard reboot, which doesn't perform
the disk sync, and may well result in a long boot time for fsck due
the the filesystems being in an inconsistant state.
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LiveCD.
1: http://tukaani.org/lzma/benchmarks
2: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/dpkg-lzma
3: http://www.squashfs-lzma.org/
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final product, and would not meet
the "stable for everyday use except where 100% uptime is required"
goal.
More generally, those who have the flexibility to upgrade every
six months are encouraged to use the regular releases. Those who
cannot due to organisational issues related to v
the integration work is the result of this testing, and
would be near impossible without it, as many issues are only exposed
with combinations of software installed, rather than in a single
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you have a way to twiddle your router.
The other common option is to use STUN (1) supported by many
consumer routers and VoIP clients.
1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_traversal_of_UDP_over_NATs
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ting, this could be a
source of sync candidates (although it may still be nice to have a
human check to make sure nothing went wrong).
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is available in Ubuntu 7.10, and Miro 1.0 is currently in the
hardy repositories.
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o be included on the CD, and the time and
number of approvals required.
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36852 (1). More generally, module-assistant
needs a cleanup after many of the duplicated sources in individual
-source packages were removed.
1: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/module-assistant/+bug/136852
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roduced, asking
the reporter to provide any corrections to the procedure. Ideally,
the bug tester should confirm both that they can reproduce in the
previous release, and cannot reproduce in the current release, but not
everyone runs parallel releases, so this may not be so simple.
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