edgy regression on last ibook (was: Re: Problems with iBook G4)

[Nathan Eckenrode]

On Wednesday 18 October 2006 09:48, Keywan Najafi Tonekaboni wrote:
Hello Keywan,

Please take into consideration that many of the people who actually are 
working on the packages and applications are not working for Canonical, 
rather many of them have very busy day jobs and during their free time at 
night they are voluntarily providing the necessary support for the project.

If you are looking for support, then the ubuntu-users mailing list, the forums 
at ubuntuforums.org, or the #ubuntu channel on IRC will be a much more 
appropriate place to seek support. 

With that said, there are going to be issues whenever you are dealing with 
bleeding edge technology- that is the nature of the bleeding edge. As Edgy 
Eft, is still pre-release there will be issues of stability - they are being 
worked on, and I have faith that when it is released a majority of the 
stability issues will be  ironed out and defeated, such as the way aRts fails 
coming out of suspend on my powerbook - personally, I run the 'bleeding edge'
in order to actually have these problems, so that I can report them to people 
who are more capable than myself. 

Bug Reports are not ignored- in fact when you file a Bug Report, it generates 
an email to the developer who is responsible for that package. The more 
thorough and accurate your Bug Report the easier it is for the developer to 
solve the problem - many times the problem is in replicating the bug in order 
to fix it.

Alas, the purpose of this list, as I understand it, is not to provide support 
to laptop users, but to enable developers who are interested in communicating 
efforts to install, tune and develop on laptop platforms. I have been lurking 
in the shadows here because I do run the next versions of (k)ubuntu on my 
laptop and hope to be able to contribute data towards the efforts of 
stabilising the OS and all its various components.

Sincerely,
Nathan Eckenrode
aka n8k99

> Hello,
>
> Am Mittwoch, den 18.10.2006, 14:38 +0200 schrieb Duncan Lithgow:
> > Maybe the people who could fix this are too busy to reply just now?
> > Either way it's best not to complain when you get something for free -
> > they might get grumpy and stop giving it to you. ;-) (would never happen
> > of course)
>
> I got an OS for free and they (Canonical) got QA for free from
> "us" (Community). A mail with "ACK, please be patient" take 2 minutes.
> People could be so busy that they forget, ok. But I wrote two mails
> before and wait a long time between. Know I think it would be a desaster
> when Edgy wouldn't support one of the popular PowerPC notebooks
> (iBook).
>
> I complain, because I think this is a project, where we all want to work
> together.
>
> I write here because it's an laptop specific issue. Or got I more
> attention on ubuntu-users ...
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Keywan
>
> Regards,
>
> Keywan
>
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