Re: launchpad bug reports

2009-09-22 Thread Soren Hansen
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 04:43:15PM -0500, Patrick Goetz wrote: Am I missing something? It seems that bug reports in launchpad are categorized by package name but not by distribution. Wouldn't it make sense to take advantage of the distribution hierarchy in order to make this system easier

Re: launchpad bug reports

2009-09-22 Thread Patrick Goetz
Joshua Timberman wrote: Bugs in The Karmic Koala https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic Substitute karmic with other release names if desired. I saw this, but this just lists all karmic bugs, although it's easy enough to search on a package name. This raises the question of how bugs

Re: launchpad bug reports

2009-09-22 Thread Patrick Goetz
Soren Hansen wrote: I don't think it would be very useful to assume that any bug in Hardy was magically fixed in Intrepid. Hence, dividing bugs by series[1] seems like a bad plan to me. I agree. What I'm suggesting is that the bug report include a field indicating the series that the bug was

Re: Minutes from the Technical Board meeting, 2009-09-22

2009-09-22 Thread Jordan Mantha
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Kees Cook k...@ubuntu.com wrote:  * Removal of sun-java6   * Based on feedback all around, it was agreed that it is still early     for sun-java6 to be dropped.  However, it was not yet clear if     responsibility for the package should be changed.   *

Ubuntu for laptops

2009-09-22 Thread shirish शिरीष
Hi all, I have a friend who has a ubuntu laptop . She was complaining that the OS eats her batteries more than Windows XP. A little searching around gave me many examples of this. For e.g. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/laptop-testing-team/2009-February/001239.html and

Re: Ubuntu for laptops

2009-09-22 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 09:37:01PM +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote: Has there been any thought of having a distribution specifically for laptop users (similar to the initiative taken for netbooks - Ubuntu Netbook remix) otherwise laptop owners have to go through quite few hoops to make it less

Re: Ubuntu for laptops

2009-09-22 Thread Patrick Goetz
Matthew Garrett wrote: What would the differences be? If you google for ext4 and battery life you can find quite a bit of discussion about how the default filesystem configuration prevents the disk from being able to go to sleep. The bottom line is optimizing for performance is more or

Re: Ubuntu for laptops

2009-09-22 Thread Martin Owens
On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 11:40 -0500, Patrick Goetz wrote: If you google for ext4 and battery life you can find quite a bit of discussion about how the default filesystem configuration prevents the disk from being able to go to sleep. The bottom line is optimizing for performance is more or

Re: Ubuntu for laptops

2009-09-22 Thread Patrick Goetz
Martin Owens wrote: What would be more ideal is to sort out the file system driver so it behaved differently when it's on battery power (or in any kind of energy conservation mode). Based on having spent a few days reading through the massive ext4 debate that occurred between the 2.6.29

Re: Ubuntu for laptops

2009-09-22 Thread shirish शिरीष
at bottom :- On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 22:16, Martin Owens docto...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 11:40 -0500, Patrick Goetz wrote: If you google for ext4 and battery life you can find quite a bit of discussion about how the default filesystem configuration prevents the disk from being

Re: Ubuntu for laptops

2009-09-22 Thread Martin Owens
On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 22:40 +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote: The use-cases are unique to laptops and laptops in battery-mode. Any benefits on this are surely going to overlap with UNR as well. (as it suffers from similar constraints) I can see it also effecting these new cloud computing servers

Re: Ubuntu for laptops

2009-09-22 Thread shirish शिरीष
in-line :- 2009/9/22 Martin Owens docto...@gmail.com: On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 22:40 +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote: The use-cases are unique to laptops and laptops in battery-mode. Any benefits on this are surely going to overlap with UNR as well. (as it suffers from similar constraints) I can

Re: Ubuntu for laptops

2009-09-22 Thread shirish शिरीष
in-line :- 2009/9/22 Martin Owens docto...@gmail.com: On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 22:40 +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote: The use-cases are unique to laptops and laptops in battery-mode. Any benefits on this are surely going to overlap with UNR as well. (as it suffers from similar constraints) I can

What about SLiM and tint2?

2009-09-22 Thread rent0n
Hello, I would like to know, if possible, the reasons why SLiM will not be present in the karmic release, since the SLiM team found a new mantainer and developpers and the project is still going on. I also would like to know why the new stable release of tint2 (0.7) has not been included in

Modem Manager Dev Package

2009-09-22 Thread Kevin Fries
The README file for modem manager makes reference to a command line python program that demonstrates the D-BUS API to manipulate the modems. It also makes mention of a couple of generic classes that can be used to create custom modem classes for your 3G device... AWESOME, exactly what I

Re: Ubuntu for laptops

2009-09-22 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 11:40:27AM -0500, Patrick Goetz wrote: If you google for ext4 and battery life you can find quite a bit of discussion about how the default filesystem configuration prevents the disk from being able to go to sleep. The bottom line is optimizing for performance is

Re: Ubuntu for laptops

2009-09-22 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 10:40:05PM +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote: a. Lots of background services which are started by default. Background services are either doing something (in which case the user expects them to be doing so), are idle (and therefore not consuming any energy) or are buggy (in

Regression in getting fully translated Ubuntu installation - what to do for karmic?

2009-09-22 Thread Timo Jyrinki
Hi, CC:ing ubuntu-translators just to get interested people on-board, no need to continue CC:ing. Please look at https://bugs.launchpad.net/language-selector/+bug/434173 - do you think I'm missing something, can the report be refined? The new way of handling supporting translations, writing aids