devel-discuss update

[Derek Broughton]

Last week Dotan & I promised to monitor the devel lists and post back what
we saw as issues that would affect the user community.  Of course, Dotan
promptly got hit by Real Life, so I'm not sure if he can follow up.  I've
had it happen to me often enough, so I can't complain.

Anyway, this is _my_ take on what's happening, and if anything slips by me -
well you can read all this yourself on
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss :-)

It's not in any particular order, and whatever you think - please DON'T
continue this thread - go to devel-discuss and post your comments/feelings
there.

1) Replacing network-offline (old version 2xmonitor) with NM wlan 0% signal
strength icon

This is all about the icons that Network Manager shows when connected, when
not connected, when wireless is available, or not, etc.  I can't say I've
followed it, because I don't pay much attention to the icons until its
clear I have no connectivity.  The heart of the issue though appears to be
the problem of displaying data about 3-5 network _types_ (wired, wifi,
bluetooth, ppp, vpn) and status (connected, not-connected but available,
not available) all in one tiny little icon.  If it matters to you, see
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2009-March/thread.html#7345

2) Call for testers for K3b.  
Obviously this is really Kubuntu-oriented, but I know quite a few Gnome
people who use it, so if you care, test the latest release.  It seems a bit
shaky :-)  See:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2009-March/thread.html#7522 

3) Use apport for reporting bugs.

I can't help you much here, it's new to me too.  But apparently after all
the hype, Launchpad is NOT the (best) place to report bugs.  apport is the
tool.  See:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2009-March/thread.html#7588
-- 
derek