[REQ] Use Mhonarc as an (external) archiver instead of pipermail (internal)
Hi all, When clicking on mailing list archive even with dates the resulting list is a flat list one never comes to know when a particular discussion started or ended right there. Other lists system make this pretty much easy. For e.g. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2007-04/index.htmlshould be easy to know what I mean. We have been using GNU Mailman 2.1.8 Now apparently the ugliness of dates is because of how pipermail does it stuff. There is a link http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=showfile=faq04.004.htp which shows how this can be achieved. Lemme know what u guys think. Cheers ! -- Shirish Agarwal This work is licensed under the Creative Commons NonCommercial Sampling Plus 1.0 License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/nc-sampling+/1.0/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Newest Testing Report of Ubuntu 6.10 from BSTQC China (Jianggw)
Message: 4 Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 14:33:28 +0800 From: Jianggw [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Newest Testing Report of Ubuntu 6.10 from BSTQC China To: ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=gb2312 Hi, there Thanks for reading this email. April 29th, 2007. After the hard work of guys in our company BSTQC(Beijing Software Testing QA Center), we release our new all-sided testing report for Ubuntu-6.10 which we finished several days before. In our testing report, we've listed: 19S2-bug(very serious), 108 S3-bug(middle serious), 106 S4-bug(normal), 33S5-bug-for-suggestions(suggestions). Totally 266 bugs. Even the new Ubuntu 7.04 has been released, this report would be very valuable for all developers and users. You can download it from BSTQC ftp server. If anyone has problems with downloading the testing report, please contact me by sending email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If some one could provide downloading server outside of China and put this testing report on your server, it would be great appreciated! FTP address: 210.76.123.18 username: ostl password: ostl_ubuntu The subdirectory of newest testing report is ubuntu 6.10, please check them. The all-side testing of newest Ubuntu 7.04 are ongoing, we will release the testing report as soon as possible. Thanks! Best regards! Hao Kong - BSTQC -- National Application Software Testing Labs Beijing Software Testing QA Center Add:Building 3A,Zhongguancun Software Park, Shangdi,Haidian District,Beijing,China 100094 TEL:(+86)-010-82825511-726 Fax:(+86)-010-82826408 Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Hi all, I have a feeling of deja vu about this one. There are no. of points which u need to think about:- 1. While we are very much thankful for the bug report but this is not the mailing list or the place where you wanna send this. A better place would have been https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugsquad more specifically join the bug-squad team. 2.The format is a .doc format which makes things pretty bulky and inconsistent. I just cleaned up your 3 MB .doc file saved it got the same file in .odt format for 142 KB. Although it took me atleast 4 hrs. to do the cleaning up but one good action deserves another. I have put up the cleaned up file at http://rapidshare.com/files/28563156/Ubuntu_6.10_defect_report.odt.html. 3. One of the other things was that most of the bugs seem pertinent to Applications per-se which begs the question are these bugs in Ubuntu or the parent/upstream applications per se. For e.g. any of the bugs which are openoffice.org related, did you check them with let's say the same version in some other linux distro. or it could be a short-coming in the parent application per se. Also while you have put up the name of the OS there is no mention of the version of the application which is also very much needed. For e.g. openoffice has an excellent qa team which looks at all the bugs very seriously. http://qa.openoffice.org/ . There are even test-scripts there which would make your job whole lot easier if you had not been using them. I say this because quite a few of these seem to be translation issues which should be handled by the applications themselves. 4. Ubuntu itself has a dedicated bug-reporting site at http://bugs.launchpad.net . The only thing is one has to register keep track when the developers say something. You could also simultaneously file the bug upstream give a link there which would make things easier for everybody. In the present format way its unusable for anybody. In case if you have any more doubts, issues feel free to connect with me off-line or bug me either on jabber or freenode where I'm known as shirish. Take care, keep up the good work. -- Shirish Agarwal This work is licensed under the Creative Commons NonCommercial Sampling Plus 1.0 License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/nc-sampling+/1.0/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Opening development for Gutsy Gibbon
Message: 5 Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 10:11:21 +0200 From: Dennis Kaarsemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Opening development for Gutsy Gibbon To: ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On wo, 2007-04-25 at 14:58 +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: The Gutsy Gibbon archives are now accessible, and will be openend soonish for normal upload and syncs from Debian. For those that don't read planet: A gutsy-changes rss feed is available at the usual *-changes feed location. -- Dennis K. Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so. Hi Mathias, interested to know where that feed is also. :) -- Shirish Agarwal This work is licensed under the Creative Commons NonCommercial Sampling Plus 1.0 License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/nc-sampling+/1.0/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Proposal: Ubuntu Metadistribution
snipped What I want is to combine the worlds of several free operating systems with the philosophy of Ubuntu: ease of use, shiny new releases every eye blink , cool community, business awareness but - with the combination of several operating systems under Ubuntu - the _full_ choice the free software world gives. Let me specify this - with the things I wrote above in mind- in the example of Ubuntu/OpenSolaris: The original OpenSolaris with its libs and docus and userland (in the OpenSolaris world these are called consolidations) + The packages to get all the functionality of a Ubuntu Release (CD/DVD) from the Blastwave repository (this is a repo which gives the Solaris user an apt-get like structure. + The Ubuntu specific programs and packages ported to OpenSolaris (for example the installer, the update notifier but also the Gnome adaptations of Ubuntu). Please have in mind here that the OpenSolaris world stays as it is and it is known to the user (with some very little adaptations). This all combined in the Ubuntu repositories , with the apropriate user mailing lists and forums, tested for half year release as Ubuntu/GNU/Linux is tested and released every six months. (Port this example to the other proposed operating systems FreeBSD, NetBSD). The end user gets a web-site, where he clicks and chooses the operating system he wants to test/learn/use, where he clicks and chooses the desktop environment and experience he wants under the chosen OS (Gnome,KDE,XFCE) where he clicks and chooses the kind of release he wants to download (CD/DVD, mybe USB sticks in the future). So in the end every one would get : the __full__ choice the world of free software gives the user but with the community support structure of Ubuntu today. I hope that my example made it clear what I proposed. Hi Gueven, Its an interesting concept, what you are suggesting is a kind of installer script which kicks off pulls software from different repositories spits a release at the end (similar perhaps to Garnome, Gentoo builds, a sort of script Mann2003 is supposedly to pull software from various repos http://ubuntusoftware.info/ultimate/ ) but while they have very specific environments in mind yours is much more larger. Issues right from licensing (every distro. is not under GPL license) (user agrees to each specific license seperately ? ) while downloading, to testing the scripts. Add to that the additional hardware platforms: AMD64, Alpha, i386, MIPS, 68000, PowerPC, Sparc, Sparc64, VAX, Zaurus its truly a manmoth exercise. AFAIK there is/was some talk of dropping official PowerPC support for Ubuntu although community support would be there. Further AFAIK there are only some 30 odd developers who are doing everything from building packages from source, to answering newbie, bug squashing etc. which does take a lotta time I guess. Thank you for your questions. regards Gueven Of course I'm just a user of the distro. so some things I might just get plain wrong. But that's how I see it. It's a great suggestion but is it a good time for doing something like that. I would guess it would have more success if its a community effort rather than the official. At some point if it becomes stable, more functional then there would be possibility of it being on the official list. You could also think of starting it on the ubuntuforums 3rd party project see the kind of response you get for the project. Who knows it might turn out to be the biggest thing since sliced bread. :) -- Shirish Agarwal This work is licensed under the Creative Commons NonCommercial Sampling Plus 1.0 License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/nc-sampling+/1.0/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: [RFC] ShipIt CD-RW
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 21:19:45 -0600 From: Conrad Knauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [RFC] ShipIt CD-RW I can think of a few reasons why this is a bad idea, not the least of which is that the alpha/beta versions have big disclaimers to NOT install them on production machines (e.g. including because the installer itself might do bad things). snipped CK Hi all, RFC I guess Request for Comments. (lol). I beg to digress with Conrad. I'm a big supporter of testing the Herd CD's but its the cost of the CD's which does turn me off. Hence my testing is only from the beta stage. I've got 1 80 GB HDD which is exclusive for testing. Now it would be cool on Canonical's part if we have some custom art RW CD's for those people who are ready to engage with the whole testing cycle making it easily distinguished. It would also go in a long way in making us feel a part of the community. I do agree however that there is a danger of it becoming a poor man's supply store but that can be easily corrected by looking at people's contribution in form on bugs filed, any specifications filed, activity on the channels, all of which could be automated to a certain extent. I've also been ordering few CDR's of the final build so as to give-away to friends or to be used to show-off the Live CD capabilities of Ubuntu. Lastly, from the shipit site Canonical does have a list of interested people who are supporters of the project can use that to harness good-will as well as engage the community from time to time but that's beside the point. Hope I got my point across, hoping for more healthy discussion on the subject. -- Shirish Agarwal This work is licensed under the Creative Commons NonCommercial Sampling Plus 1.0 License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/nc-sampling+/1.0/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
issue with usplash for last 2 weeks
Hi all, Sorry to bother u guys. But this bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usplash/+bug/102378 is tearing my hair out. Guys desperate, looking for a solution. thanx. -- Shirish Agarwal This work is licensed under the Creative Commons NonCommercial Sampling Plus 1.0 License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/nc-sampling+/1.0/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
support for .metalink
Hello Everybody, Is there possibility to have ubuntu .metalink for i386 (English) AMD (English) atleast somewhere for people to start using .metalink. I am sure there are people who have pretty high speeds which would benefit everybody as people would be able to download faster. The site to know more about metalinking is www.metalinker.org and there is a GUI python based .metalink editor at http://hampus.vox.nu/metalink/ which people could/should use. To know more about .metalink wikipedia is also very cool. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalink . There is already a mini-repository at http://metalink.packages.ro/ which can be used. Also KGet is supporting the .metalink format so we do have a download manager which supports it. Although I have nothing to do with metalinker.org in any commercial sense but do like the idea. There may be few things which might not be perfect, but seems a logical way as people get mroe speeds then are able to max their connection, using this. Lemme know what u guys think :) -- Shirish Agarwal This work is licensed under the Creative Commons NonCommercial Sampling Plus 1.0 License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/nc-sampling+/1.0/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
making apport a robust application.
Hi all, I have made a spec. at https://blueprints.launchpad.net/apport/+spec/shirish . It is actually a big brain dump so different aspects of apport has been thought about. It is not at all fleshed out as it is my first spec. If somebody can help me in making it better fleshed out, if it needs to be trimmed or whichever way. Lemme know guys. Thanx in advance. -- Shirish Agarwal This work is licensed under the Creative Commons NonCommercial Sampling Plus 1.0 License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/nc-sampling+/1.0/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
