New "libc" project libposix started

2009-06-22 Thread Henrique Almeida
* This message is being sent both to ubuntu-devel (because it's the "point of contact for upstream developers") and ubuntu-devel-discuss (because it's an "idea for the development of Ubuntu") ;-) I've started the development of a new libc implementation called libposix. The project has many goal

Re: Reporting usability problems: please be more tolerant when you triage bugs!

2009-07-22 Thread Henrique Almeida
Agreed. Ubuntu developers either don't understand my usability reports or tag them as low priority bugs, which gets triaged for many releases. Once I have submitted a bug report on an usability issue that caused "information loss", which is serious. In certain PDF files, I can't search for accente

Re: Compile farm for MIPS64/Loongson

2009-07-25 Thread Henrique Almeida
2009/7/18 Kai-Cheung Leung : > Debian is still supporting MIPS64, which the Chinese Loongson chips > are compartible with.  And Ubuntu codes are lifted from Debian. > > I would like to have an unofficial repository for MIPS64/Loongson, at > least in main, and if this works, I really would like to s