On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 21:38 +0000, mac_v wrote: > a bit too harsh there pal...
Harsh? Perhaps. But given the comparative levels of user frustration and development intransigence, the frustration is understandable. > asking the devs for an apology, is way out there!!! Absolutely not. At this point, I'm starting to think that a contrite mea culpa is the only way forward. People make mistakes. Most of the time, admitting and accepting and moving on is the best approach. But sometimes, when an error is upheld for so long by the errant party, well, the errant party should apologize. Up to this point, I've tried to confine my responses to pointing out the obvious flaws in the Jaunty approach, to proposing alternatives, and to suggesting how the process for introducing these changes could have perhaps been improved. Not because of any inner saintliness, but because I've spat vinegar a time or two and I've learned the hard way how much it gets done. But the development team response from SABDFL on down has been so poor in this area that I'm starting to think vitriol is all we have left. So, yeah, I think we, the Ubuntu community deserve an apology for how this was introduced, for how it was clung too dogmatically in the face of so much opposition of such quality, and for simple intransigence. I don't think asking for apology is off base at all. pww -- [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/332945 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
