ubuntu-drivers revisited (Re: my membership in ubuntu-drivers is about to expire)

Matt Zimmerman mdz at canonical.com
Wed May 26 13:33:44 BST 2010


On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 01:27:08PM +0100, Jonathan Lange wrote:
> On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at canonical.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 12:04:23PM +0100, Jonathan Lange wrote:
> >> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at canonical.com> wrote:
> ...
> >> You may well find some resistance, since the Launchpad team has many,
> >> many ideas on how to deal with the many problems that we have yet to
> >> solve. Do you see much point in discussing ideas for how to do work
> >> that we don't plan to do?
> >>
> >> I don't like being a wet blanket, and would welcome positive suggestions.
> >
> > With a slight revision to your question, yes, I do see a point in discussing
> > ideas for how to solve problems, even if the Launchpad team hasn't decided
> > to write any code yet.
> >
> > Beyond "yes we will write code now" or "no we will not write code now",
> > perhaps there are suggestions for how we could better cope with the way
> > Launchpad works today?
> 
> Really, the best thing is to raise this on the launchpad-dev mailing
> list if you want to understand the problem better or discuss potential
> solutions. It's likely that my previous email was too pessimistic, and
> that a discussion will open up avenues I hadn't considered.
> 
> However, it's not actually going to get done until someone writes
> code, and we won't be in a position to do that until next month.

I've parked this issue at
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu-community/+bug/585807 as discussed by
phone.  If any clarifications or suggestions come around, I would appreciate
having them recorded there.

-- 
 - mdz



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