Hey everyone, happy new year! Someone on google plus pointed out this great page on how users can best apply upstart concepts to systemd:
- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SystemdForUpstartUsers Thanks to the people who put this page together, it's been really helpful for me to figure out what I need to know for the transition. I'd like to bring this announcement up as an example of where I think we could do a better job communicating to users. I consider myself kind of "plugged in" to what's happening in Ubuntu, and yet this page was kind of a (sweet) surprise to me. I've been guilty of this a million times; in my little area of responsibility I have a milestone and I talk to people about it on the appropriate lists, but that doesn't mean it reaches the general Ubuntu audience. In the old days it was something like "No worries, we'll have a drink at UDS and sort it" and then you'd be in tune to what foundations, kubuntu, kernel, mobile desktop, or whatever team you were talking to and then my task was easy; I just relayed the information. We're a few years into virtual-UDSes now and I feel like we're not communicating as well as we used to, which is why I want to bring this up now. I find myself posting everyday-ish status reports to google plus (or whatever your social network of choice is), and basically calling it a day. If you follow the right people you get awesome videos of Unity 8 with windowing support, click packages doing awesome stuff, snappy packages doing the same sort of thing ... and so on. Most of this stuff doesn't make it to the developer mailing lists or most official Ubuntu properties, and I think that sucks. Having falling victim to "it's so easy to just post on G+" syndrome just like everyone else, I think we should fix this. Developers are obviously not going to "just update your blog", should we look at some sort of way of integrating social network posts into other Ubuntu tools? There was a point in time when ubuntu-devel was too granular; I just want to kick of a discussion if the pendulum has swung too far to the other side. Thoughts? -- Jorge Castro Canonical Ltd. http://juju.ubuntu.com/ - Automate your Cloud Infrastructure -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
