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Re: Ubuntu Bug Week Announcement
🌊 *Ubuntu is not a wave, but a sea*
I *think* what I'm going to say is anti-maketing, but also what for me
seems real:
Ubuntu is *not a distro* at this time, but a prototype of software
development.
The same as GNOME 3 has been in its early days, which I hated so much
and now I like so hard.
Usually I choose what *works now*, because working now is the only
warrant it's actually been well done.
On the other hand, in my opinion, no operating system is fully working
today; because "working" means "working *for nearly everyone*".
📈*Decisions work**, and rapidly*
So I chose Ubuntu because it's the only distro I see *decisions* are
taken with criteria that actually works to put the operating system and
libre software forward as a standard rapidly. Nearly every single thing
that has been criticised to Ubuntu has through lately positive returns:
* An *interface* that works across platforms, and which delivers
maximum speed at work.
* A *cloud* infrastructure that makes experience across devices very
coherent, as these devices belonged to the same machine.
* A massive *deployment* of the operating system.
* Interest from the *gaming* industry in delivering titles to Linux.
In fact, Steam and Source games work now without any errors at a
stable performance in Saucy.
* Interest in *GPUs* developers in greatly improving their drivers,
both proprietary and libre.
* The ability to *maintain* the computer by the user itself, without
extra wasteful steps to configure it.
🐞*For bugs, a mini gun is being baked*
And what is left and we're *working* on it right now, and I have notice,
is the abilities to:
* *Automatically* test and manage bugs.
* *Smoke test* for bugs before launching a disk image.
* Have a simple, lean and coherent *manual bug and quality
management*; accessible to any kind of contributor.
* *Launch* stable releases of Ubuntu every a while.
So when this gets a little *more mature*, it seems the situation with
bugs will be very different. And with mature I mean *months*.
🍻*Hype and a cup made a hiccup*
I think at the end the real discussion is about that people somehow
feels like being *manipulated* by social media and marketing. I have to
say that, in my opinion, Ubuntu is being advertised as more polished
than actually is; and this is where I think marketing went wrong and
somehow dishonest.
On the other hand, without excusing this point, I see the *intention*
has been always good: making free software the standard, liberating
computing, and showing that people can live working at it.
Regards ☕
El 13/02/14 23:54, John escribió:
Hello all. My name is John.
While I have been following behind the scenes stuff with Ubuntu since
the beginning, it's very rare that I reply to anything on a mailing
list. With that said, I have a thought or two.
First, how does *2 days* constitute a week in reference to "Bug Week?"
Last time I checked, a week was 7 days, or 5 days if you were to go
the work/school days route.
Second, why does bug smashing have to be limited to a "week?"
Shouldn't bugs be getting smashed as soon as humanly possible, no
matter when it is?
Papercuts is a good forum, but "Bug Week" sounds like cheerleaders
standing on the sidelines rooting for their team when they are down by
10 points with little time left on the clock.
Something isn't right here. I will agree that the notification of the
event gives little to no time for people to prepare. The organizers do
use a public calendar, right? Better future planning is needed instead
of scrambling at the last minute.
I'm not a programmer, so fixing bugs is something I can't do myself. I
do however, like to test new software, break it, give the developers
back the little pieces and tell them how it broke so they can fix it.
Reporting bugs can be fun, albeit a bit frustrating when the app
doesn't work as advertised. People get discouraged when apps don't
function as intended and move on to another distro or even back to
Windows.
I hope I haven't bitten off more than I can chew with my statements,
but this is what I've seen here for years.
-John
BaD_CrC @ Freenode
On Feb 11, 2014 12:35 PM, "Alberto Salvia Novella"
<es20490446e@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:es20490446e@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
When saying Trusty is the most *stable release* I took into
consideration it is in alpha stage, so Trusty is the most stable
of all releases in alpha stage.
On the other hand, the Ubuntu *Bug Week* has been quite
unsuccessful. I thought in the worst scenario, because launching
it so soon, whe will be at least four people participating; but we
just where two. On the other hand, over a hundred bugs; so it
wasn't that bad, *thanks* to Javier P.L.
<https://launchpad.net/%7Echilicuil> for being so supportive.
Because of this, I want to ask people some *questions*; so next
time we do better. Please tell me the following, although the
possible answer doesn't seem relevant; so we can figure out what
has being missed in the event:
* *Why* you choose not to participate?
* *What* will make you to participate in an event like this?
Thank you
El 10/02/14 13:57, Matthew Paul Thomas escribió:
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Hi Alberto
Alberto Salvia Novella wrote on 07/02/14 02:48:
...
As said
<http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000017.html> <http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000017.html> by Joel
Spolsky, *good software* usually takes 10 years to become well
made. And this appears the case for Ubuntu 14.04; the most stable
release of all time, as it can be seen in its Error Tracker
<https://errors.ubuntu.com/> <https://errors.ubuntu.com/>.
...
Unfortunately, the error tracker currently shows that Trusty (the
orange line) is the *least* stable version of Ubuntu yet. The most
stable release so far was 13.04 (the purple line).
I guess you misunderstood this because the Y axis on the graph is
unlabelled, which is itself a bug!<http://launchpad.net/bugs/1237499> <http://launchpad.net/bugs/1237499>
Unfortunately we can't tell whether Trusty is better or worse than
other releases at this point of the release cycle, because data from
before last July is on an old database server and not yet migrated to
the current tracker.
I hope the Bug Weekend was a success. Perhaps for future Bug Days, you
could give more advance notice that they're happening.
Cheers
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