Very bad status of hardware (especially wifi) support in ubuntu, due to the too many accumulated regressions

[(=?iso-8859-1?q?=60=60-=5F-=B4=B4?=) -- Fernando]

Olá Stephan e a todos.

On Thursday 13 November 2008 12:20:17 Stephan Hermann wrote:
> This task is not easy. There needs to be input from the users with the
> non-working hardware. Most likely, that this information can be gathered
> with some magic commands on CLI, which is also provided by a nice developer. 

I've seen this mention a few times, and if anyone looks at brainstorm, I bet its already there:
Would it be of any interest having a tool (only on devel branches or the all time) that would gather the entire HW listing with FULL detail and upload it to some database?
Some improved version of hwtest-gtk, mixed with hwinfo and sysinfo (sysinfo as a great user UI and could also teach/report to the user about supported HW).

Maybe hook up hwtest-gtk to system 1st runs and kernel upgrades, and notify the user to run the tests, and send the report.


> When I upgrade to a new release, I always think (or is it knowing): "Ok,
> for the next 4 hours I'll sit in front of this computer, and I expect
> something to break...because it's software made by people". If nothing
> breaks, then I'm really surprised and happy. But when something breaks,
> I already expected that. And when I find the cause for the breakage,
> I'll try to fix it, AND/OR file a bug report about that issue. 
> 
> Therefore, I don't upgrade my production machine without any real
> testing. But this won't help for everybody, I know.

That's why I start testing in early development versions: so that stuff can be detected and users on a stable release dont find all those many bugs.
I've already upgraded my laptop to Jaunty. With this I can keep up the development, and help fix stuff before release

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