Upgrading to Edgy Eft

[Derek Broughton]

Mario Vukelic wrote:

> On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 21:20 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
>> | Developer lists
>> |
>> |       The ubuntu-devel mailing list is for highly-technical
>> |       discussions and implementation details regarding current
>> |       development on Ubuntu.
>> 
>> It says, that the -dev list is for discussing "current development"
>> aspects. Thus, questions reg. a "current development" distribution
>> are on-topic there and *thus* off-topic here.

I'm on the verge of violating The Code.  imo, Alexander already has.  Who
appointed you as the Thought Police, Alexander?  Using Edgy is NOT a matter
of "current development".  Developing and using software are quite
different things.  Others, some of whom are actually developers, have made
the point better than I can.

> However, if someone posts to -devel with generic apt questions in edgy,
> he won't make people happy there either :)
> 
> I feel that posting to -users with edgy questions is fine, but not with
> edgy questions that have been answered frequently, or questions that can
> be answered by googling.

Those are the conditions under which it's _never_ appropriate to post to a
support newsgroup, so it doesn't matter whether it's about Edgy, Dapper or
Breezy.

I really can't understand the anger & bitterness I'm seeing both about
people using Edgy, and more about people posting their experiences and
concerns here.  I was here (and using the pre-release versions) before
Breezy & Dapper were released, and I _never_ saw this.  This is the UBUNTU
users list.  It does not exclude KDE users, even though there's a Kubuntu
list, and it doesn't exclude users of ANY version of Ubuntu.  Shame on all
of you who want to make it exclusionary.
-- 
derek