Meeting this week

[Alex Lourie]

Brandan

I agree with you. I just noticed it and thought that it is important for
us, the QA, to address.

I hope to get it discussed with you guys :-).

On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Brendan Donegan <
brendan.donegan at canonical.com> wrote:

>  Alex,
>
> Having such a 'bug' lying around isn't useful, so I closed it as invalid.
> I agree we should discuss this issue of third-party software breaking and
> you're right that it has echoes of Ubuntu Friendly/Hardware Certification
> (you could say we need a type of 'Software Certification' as well as
> 'Hardware Certification')
>
> I note that the bug reporter didn't offer the name of the commercial
> software which broke for them as well, which isn't helpful.
>
>
> On 09/01/12 17:31, Alex Lourie wrote:
>
>  On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Gema Gomez <
> gema.gomez-solano at canonical.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> thanks Phill for running the meeting last week!
>>
>> I am back from holidays so I can run the meeting on Wednesday. It'll be
>> a short one, though, because we are in Budapest this week on the Precise
>> Rally and we have a team dinner that night.
>>
>> I can give an update on what is being discussed and we can have an
>> update from what is going on in the community and on the derivatives and
>> spend only 30 mins on it. If anyone has anything pressing to discuss,
>> please, bring it up at the beginning!
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Gema
>>
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>
> Hi Gema, and welcome back!
>
>  I'm not sure that I'll make the meeting this week, so I only wanted to
> raise one issue: there's a bug on launchpad,
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/886931.
>
>  The person is complaining about the overall quality of Ubuntu (and
> probably his specific own problems), but nevertheless, there's one point
> that he raises that is quite important. I think that breaking commercial
> software from working is a big problem for Ubuntu, and we should do
> something about it.
>
>  I'd love to participate in a discussion on this topic, but generally the
> idea I had is somewhat reminiscent of Friendly - to have a list of various
> commercial software applications tested for each new release, to know where
> we could have a problem.
>
>  So, if you decide to talk about it while I'm absent, fine, I'll read
> logs later. If I'm present - then we could have a discussion, or just start
> to think about it.
>
>  Cheers.
>
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