Building Safety Into Our Work

[Octavian Damiean]

On 2011-05-20 22:58, Jono Bacon wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-05-20 at 14:55 -0600, Mike Basinger wrote:
>> I think this need to be a key foundations of the power user community.
>> Giving people the tools and info to tweak their system , but in a way
>> that does not damage their installs or makes it difficult for the
>> kernel/bug team to help people with bug reports.
>>
>> We have enough sites inside/outside of Ubuntu that say "hey install this
>> deb/ppa/file" it awesome and then 10 minute later the person has an
>> usable system.
> It seems one simple approach is just throwing warning notices everywhere
> before someone pulls the trigger, but I also wonder if there a better
> way of categorizing different options into different levels of risk.
>
> This could arguably be performed within a tool such as Ubuntu Tweak.
>
> Another thing I think we need is a Safety page on the Power User wiki
> that explains that users should be careful, not just randomly install
> debs from the Internet etc. Would anyone be interested in creating such
> a page?
>
> 	Jono
>
Having warning notices thrown everywhere sounds quite intrusive. It 
sounds a bit like approaches that other operating system took which can 
become quite annoying.

This should come with an option to deactivate the warnings.

I would definitely help with the safety page.