13.10 alpha

[Liam Proven]

You are commenting to 2 different people here. One of them isn't me.

On 3 August 2013 22:25, Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 03, 2013 at 03:24:01PM +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
>> On 3 August 2013 02:24, Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> > It was in the alpha release announcements (and beta 1) for raring, the
>> > cycle when the change was made:
>> >
>> >   https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2012-December/000998.html
>> >   https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2013-February/001015.html
>> >   https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2013-March/001024.html
>> >
>> > I don't know to what extent we need to keep on repeating it.
>>
>> This may shock you, but lots of people /aren't on the developer
>> mailing lists./ I am one of them.
>
> Sure, but that's where alpha releases are announced, so if you're
> interested in alpha releases then it's not unreasonable to follow it and
> I think it's a reasonable place for us to announce changes to alpha
> releases.  ubuntu-devel-announce is fairly low-traffic.

That's to me. I think it's a fairly ridiculous response, though.

Do you really not think that there ought to be an explanation *on the
download web page* for the alphas?

>> > But I haven't been release-managing any of the alphas - so perhaps
>> > either edit the wiki yourself if you still feel it's necessary, or
>> > drop a note to the ubuntu-release list?
>
> This point still stands.  I try not to butt in on my colleagues' work
> when I don't have to, especially at the weekend. :-)

Answering someone else. I have no comment to make.

Are you unfamiliar with inline quoting?

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