2 questions about ubuntu + offering

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 02:19:05PM +0100, Xan wrote:

> I have two questions:
> 
> 1) I tried Hoary live-cd array-5 and when I put usb key, it detects me the usb 
> key and mounts me it (I tested previous versions and it's the first that do 
> correctly). But I don't watch any user friendly way to umount 
> that, ie to leave safely the usb key.
> 
> Is it a way to extract usb keys when ubuntu mounts that, without login as 
> root?. If don't, I think it's a good thing to put on ubuntu, overall for 
> novice users as me.

An icon should appear on the desktop, which you can right-click to unmount
the device.  If that icon does not appear, it may be a bug (though, try the
latest daily live CD before reporting such a bug, as it works for me there).

Unfortunately, it often doesn't work, due to inotify being disabled (in
turn, due to inotify being unstable).  The user gets a "device is busy"
message.  The best way to address this problem is to move to inotify, but it
is not yet stable enough.

> 2) In Debian ftp, there is a link to unstable version. (unstable points always 
> to unstable version). In ubuntu it does not exist, isn't?. Could you put 
> unstable link to unstable version (now Hoary, then GrumpyGroundhog, ...)
> 
> It's useful for people who want to be always in development version.

This is reasonable, though I think we should call it something else, in
order to avoid confusion with Debian's unstable.

Ideas?

> So, If you want that I test some critical releases, I'm charmed to do that.

Any testing that you can perform is greatly appreciated, both of the daily
installation and live CDs, and the "array" milestone releases.  When we are
preparing a milestone release, generally a mini-announcement will be made on
the mailing lists and IRC, requesting additional testing of a milestone
candidate.

> PS: Perhaps a good thing is to put some reference into wiki of betatesters (as 
> gnoppix do into webpage)

I think that would be a great idea; we would like to have formal test plans
for most of the testing that should be done with release candidates.

-- 
 - mdz