Ubuntu in the other news?

[Michael Shigorin]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 09:56:12AM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> Sheesh. :-)

Jeff, just for the record -- I've recently seen quite
embarrassing comments regarding Ubuntu 5.04 quality and usability
from one seasoned Python hacker I know by mail (it's in Ukrainian
so I doubt whether the correct and readable translation is very
cheap).

I understand that there are bugtrackers for bugs and other weird
stuff and maybe it's kind of "feed balance" here that might be
completely different from what's in developer's lists and BTS
but still caught me thinking "are they narcissing or what then?"...

FWIW, maybe some kind of a less formalized "complaint tracker"
would help, with lower barrier for those who have stumbled upon
something.  We didn't yet really succeed at ALT Linux with that
although the idea got discussed a bit (actually we have more
problems with fixing known bugs, including upstream ones, than
fixating new ones; situations like this call for improving bug
fixing process, not exactly bug finding in the first place).

If it helps somehow -- good; if it's that banal -- whoops :)


PS: also would be nice if someone'd comment upon Tom Lord's
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-arch-users/2005-09/msg00002.html:

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Volunteer Lock-in Strategy: Trash and Take Over Threatening Projects

At certain times, projects that arise outside of the business
activities of GNU/Linux vendors may achieve a momentum and
trajectory of their own which undermines the interests of those
vendors (GCC under Kenner vs. Cygnus;  GNU Arch vs. Canonical).
With only moderate spending on falsely-friendly "forks", such
projects can be reliably taken over and their maintainers
discredited and pushed to the sidelines.
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(I mean someone @canonical)

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