Martin Visser wrote: > Celso, > > Thanks for replying to my comment. I have to admit I felt a bit frustrated.
Don't feel like this about launchpad, we can help you ;) > I'll tell you the story. I thought I would try out dapper and installed it > on a VMware server. All went fine by the way - it's looking good. Good. > Anyway I noticed a few things during installation that I wanted to file a > bug request on. (For instance during installation, it displays a screen > saying something like "Downloading file 10 of 831", when in fact it isn't > "downloading" but merely copying from the installation source, in my case a > CD-ROM. "Downloading" has connotations fo transferring from the internet > which might make people nervous that that the Internet quota is going to be > hit) I see, I encourage you to file this bug and also get involved with the community via IRC or maillisting and discuss the issue. > Anyway I thought I would go to launchpad/malone and file a bug. The funny > thing was that even after 20 minutes of jumping around lanunchpad I still > could not find a page where I could file a bug!! (I have an old Launchpad Ok, there are plans to make the task "filling a bug on my Ubuntu" easier from a fresh install, some of them suggest we shouldn't even require the use of a browser, so it will get better soon. Nonetheless, we can file a bug via the page: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu Attempt to the menu in the right side of the page, click in "Bugs". > account from when I filed a bugzilla bug last year). The closest I got was > when I went to change something in my profile and I saw the request to sign > the Code of Conduct. I actually do understand GPG etc, but I have never got > around to creating a key-ring. Also I was filing this from a fresh dapper > install so of course it wouldn't have any of my normal credentials anyhow. Okay, first, you need to create a key, the keyring is the concept of a group of keys you know about. I suggest you to read more documentation about GPG/PGP key creation and handling at: http://www.gnupg.org/(en)/documentation/howtos.html If you are interested in. Anyway, GPG setup isn't necessary to file or handle bugs within Launchpad. > I guess what I am saying is that it doesn't seem very clear as to what the > CoC is for, also what process Launchpad is expecting you to do. (It just > advises you in https://launchpad.ubuntu.com/faq to "gpg --clearsign > ~/ubuntu-coc.txt" which doesn't work if you do this from a random account > without a key-ring installed. Maybe the FAQ needs to be a little more > explicit on what is required. Okay, personally I think following: <quote>if "FOO" doesn't make sense for you at all, it's because you don't need it.</quote> But I do agree that the FAQ and other launchpad user documentation could be more explicit about certain things. Now that you got some hints about "How to file a bug using Launchpad" task, you can possible file some in Launchpad itself ;) please feel free to expose your ideas to the community and collaborate with the development of this tool. > I'm a great fan of Ubuntu, but like I said I didn't seem to be able to file > a bug and contribute back. Join the #launchpad and #ubuntu IRC channels, there is a bunch of people to help and guide you to collaborate with them. [] -- Celso Providelo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Canonical Ltd - http://www.canonical.com -- launchpad-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/launchpad-users
