EFF & Privacy; hopefully Ubuntu will listen to users

[Scott Kitterman]

On Monday, November 05, 2012 12:14:51 PM Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> On 5 November 2012 11:53, Rodney Dawes <rodney.dawes at canonical.com> wrote:
> > There were large changes to address some specific user concerns around
> > the dash search, that went in *after* various freezes were in effect.
> 
> One example is http://pad.lv/1065652 which while obviously a user
> interface change, happened after Final Freeze without the typical
> paperwork; presumably because it was *that* critical to mitigate the
> privacy concerns.

The release team was aware of that one.  It was approved on IRC, IIRC, after 
review of screen shots of the intended change.  It was without the normal 
coordination (UIF exceptions are mostly about making sure that the change has 
been coordinated with -docs/translations), but it was also not done without 
the release team knowing.  This is exactly the kind of thing that could have 
been landed a lot more smoothly if the entire shopping lens change hadn't been 
landed so late in the release.

Scott K