Community V. "Community

[Derek Broughton]

Colin Watson wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 12:46:12PM -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
>> Mario Vukelic wrote:
>> 
>> What's more, I had a thought about blueprints. You tell me it's
>> the "official" channel for announcing upcoming changes.  In that case,
>> there should be a way to actually track new additions to the blueprints.
>> Sorry, can't find it.  It badly needs an RSS feed.
> 
> While I don't disagree here, sadly, the blueprints area is hopelessly
> overloaded with poorly-formed ideas that stand little or no chance of
> ever seeing the light of implementation, so an RSS feed would be much
> less use right now than might be desirable.

In which case it surely _isn't_ the official channel for announcing upcoming
changes.  Since I could find no pointers to Blueprints on ubuntu.com (that
is, the general blueprints area - there are many pointers to individual
blueprints), that was becoming apparent.  There _should_ be a way to be
informed of upcoming changes, and despite using Ubuntu since Warty was a
piglet, I haven't found one.

>> > All I see is Ubuntu and Canonical working hard to meet their stated
>> > goals.
>> 
>> How can they possibly meet those goals when nobody pays any attention
>> when users get really worked up about something like the laughable KDE4
>> implementation in Intrepid?
> 
> The Kubuntu developers I've spoken to seem pretty well aware of the
> problems and are certainly paying attention, but I gather that the
> easiest way to fix it at this point is to do a much better job with
> Jaunty ...

Then why weren't they at least trying to show they were aware _before_
Intrepid was released?  The peasants were revolting, and Marie Antoinette
was telling them not only to eat cake, but to wait another 6 months to do
so.  The users don't need to be babied, but they _do_ need some idea that
the developers are paying attention.
-- 
derek