Onno Benschop wrote:
On 04/12/07 01:28, Christofer C. Bell wrote:
I think allowing the developers of the distribution, those who have a
real stake in the success of the software in its entirety, to decide
where to focus their efforts is superior to allowing the mob to decide
what's
Blaise Alleyne wrote:
True, but there's the additional question - is this the appropriate
place for that sort of discussion? In other words, sure, the developers
need a place to discuss things free from the mob, but the mob also
needs to be able to participate and voice their
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 11:25:35AM -0600, Conrad Knauer wrote:
On Dec 3, 2007 7:34 AM, Ped [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From forum post I learned the sagem modem *did* work in 5.xx ubuntu
(probably 2.4 kernel with eagle-usb driver) right after install, but when I
did install 6.10 first time on
On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 22:13 -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote:
For those of us who are volunteers (most of us), the compromise is
someone has to convince me it's worth my time to bother. So I'd say
the other way around. The users who want volunteers to actually do
free work for them need to be
On Thursday 06 December 2007 11:36, Kevin Fries wrote:
On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 22:13 -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote:
For those of us who are volunteers (most of us), the compromise is
someone has to convince me it's worth my time to bother. So I'd say
the other way around. The users who want
On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 12:03 -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote:
I think you misunderstand my point.
No I got it. And I think that that thinking is wrong and dangerous to
Linux in general, and Ubuntu in specific.
snip
My concern is the idea that because a user said they want it is a meaninful
Kevin Fries wrote:
You allow the customers wishes to be the only real metric because you
place Ubuntu and Linux's needs before your own. Otherwise, are you
really helping?
*IF* I were paid I would agree. What it comes down to with many of us is
we find a niche we care about and work on that.
There are some really strong arguments being put forth in this thread. I
think I can understand how all the participates feel.
I think there is a developer-user disconnect and I tried to touch on
this in my long winded best foot forward thread. That being said I
have contributed absolutely
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 11:55:40AM -0700, Kevin Fries wrote:
On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 12:03 -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote:
I think you misunderstand my point.
No I got it. And I think that that thinking is wrong and dangerous to
Linux in general, and Ubuntu in specific.
Kevin - howdy! I
On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 12:43 +, Colin Watson wrote:
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 12:30:23PM +, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 08:43:34PM -0800, MJang wrote:
Wondering where Ubuntu is going w/r/t automated installations. I see
bits on Kickseed, but nothing in Gutsy. I see
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user/126515
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user/124895
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user/126118
This was sent to me personally, and it has comments directed to others
in the group... Therefore, I assume it was meant for the group at large.
Kevin Fries
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Hi All,
I think this thread has gotten way off topic. Can somebody in charge
flag this thread as a dead horse [1] ?
I think there is some good discussion going on, but those discussions
should be taken to new, fresh threads.
I do think that in order to post to lists intended for developers to
On Thursday 06 December 2007, Kevin Fries wrote:
| This was sent to me personally, and it has comments directed to others
| in the group... Therefore, I assume it was meant for the group at large.
Thanks Kevin, sorry about that. I must have hit the wrong reply button.
--
Richard A. Johnson
RESENDING MY ORIGINAL POST TO THE LIST. This way Kevin doesn't blasted because
of my comments :)
On Thursday 06 December 2007, Kevin Fries wrote:
[...]
| If I don't get my steak the way I ordered it. I buy my steak from
| elsewhere. Ubuntu with no users, is not anything but an exercise in
|
On Thursday 06 December 2007 16:58, Richard A. Johnson wrote:
Scott, I do have a problem with the document you linked to about asking
smart questions. Most of the answers I have seen in there are stupid
answers or stupid solutions. I was always raised with the idea that there
isn't a such
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