-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/05/12 23:00, kpb wrote: > I have always had a separate /home and reinstalled when changing > version.
To be clear, there is nothing wrong with doing that. One of my machines is setup like that too, but that's by virtue of / being an SSD and /home being spinning rust. Having a separate home is a legacy, it works for some but isn't the default and shouldn't be seen as the panacea. Things break and when they do we should help people to fix them or file bugs so developers can fix the issue. If we don't then we're doing a disservice to the next person who has the issue. > I have done that partially because that was the advice when using > Mac OS before I started using Ubuntu, and partially from advice > about Ubuntu that was around then. > The problem with advice is that people often give it without knowing why. Fact is rebooting/reinstalling doesn't often fix anything whatsoever. It makes the problem go away temporarily for one person. It doesn't stop it happening in the future, and doesn't inform developers that there's an issue in the first place. > What would be the best way to contribute during the 12.10 cycle? > Are you suggesting that I should have a test box that I keep 12.04 > on and then try upgrading it to 12.10 at regular intervals? It's funny you should ask that. I'm at a Canonical product sprint this week and one of our tasks was to review the 12.04 release and make suggestions for how things could be improved. One point which came up was that 12.04 was very stable from very early on in the cycle. There were very few catastrophic breakages which led to a broken desktop (such as X version migrations or compiz/unity inconsistencies in packaging). It was (more often than not) possible to get to a working graphical desktop at any point in the 12.04 cycle. We are adamant that we should keep that for 12.10. It should be possible to upgrade to 12.10 around the Alpha 1 stage and keep it as your main desktop through the entire cycle, knowing you'll be relatively safe to do so. Some people will have multiple machines, some will do testing in a virtual machine (VirtualBox, VMWare or similar) and some will test using a live USB stick. All are valuable contributions. > My recollection is that an upgrade path does not become available > until late in testing. > It's not that late. I upgraded to 12.04 around Alpha 1. That's pretty early. Now of course some people don't want to run bleeding edge on their main machine, and that's fine. Some don't appreciate massive daily updates to critical packages, and the possible instability. It's fine to not run 12.10. However there are (as I outlined above) other ways to contribute. Consider them all. Cheers, - -- Alan Pope Engineering Manager Canonical - Product Strategy +44 (0) 7973 620 164 [email protected] http://ubuntu.com/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPo35oAAoJEMx6UFtfvV4weyIH+waELq/y63yXuXGFBG8xg5Dc n2kpHKO9caRSJscjEdvWvIPl0cb4foEPxr6BhtO29m6g9WC8Nzk4AQSb4DyCItrK rjgaNGjJuOkEr8DOv0N/jSzXllNafyq99jg/fXNkvuKc214JMzLqtVoZvycg94tA R+yNlNMHzElXjhJfYv8tl8UYbBbGoBtKbCq3wLnF20TQiFESYgjz0XmB9qj+DK5u sPyZxPsN2odiZ/ik3mzI+mKp4lEmBPW8377oyePKgN7f/eGAb4Mn54377I33nL5M MIYSJqriV2YuKUj2VQBwI4rEOnqeM1BTlu9eir05eVBdF5aJtWLAziBtqoVcfK4= =D25z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
