network printing with Samba broken for months, no action taken, this is ridiculous

[C de-Avillez]

On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 11:48:06 +0200
Frank <mailinglists at lavabit.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 10:44 +0200, Lucas.Betschart at crypto.ch wrote:
> 
> > I'm sure they would appreciate your help fixing this bug.
> 
> I would be very glad to help fixing this bug. 
> Unfortunately, my programming skills are far from being sufficient. 

Hi Frank,

(This is for all, not only you)

You do not need to know programming. You can:
 * run development code, and test it (this is also called "QA",
   although it is not all that QA does). 
 * You can report bugs on both Ubuntu and upstream.
 * You can respond to requests for specific documentation (logs,
   settings, running a specific test & providing the results)
 * and so on.

You certainly can do more that state this is a mess. For example, the
bug link provided by Tom H shows a possible bypass (and the upstream
bug shows a different one, which suggests me there is more than one
bug, or these are different manifestations of the same one). You can
*test* the bypass(es), and report back.

Stating this is a mess, and "oy vey (is mir)", is like hammering cold
iron: makes a lot of noise, pisses off everyone else, and does not
really help much.

Please do more. Please *help*.

Cheers,

..C..
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