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Interesting reads today

Fitoschido — Sun, 19 May 2013 02:40:07 +0000

“Open source is not a warzone. Not every man is a dick.” A lovely essay from Perl girls, I truly enjoyed reading it.
“The water we swim in.” Valorie has nailed it with this: “most of the people discussing the issue seem to be talking past the folks they are hoping to connect with.” FWIW, I just think this whole shitstorm over the Community link is too overblown, too melodramatic, a whole tornado was created inside a small glass of water. The Hitler comparisons were ridiculous, unnecessary and embarrasing for the rest of us.

Please don’t add pointless comments to bug reports

Fitoschido — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 21:51:08 +0000

I generally dislike when someone wants to drag attention from public over such a small nitpick, because it produces a lot of unproductive and annoying noise to bug subscribers; and that’s exactly what happened: lots of one-sentence comments were added even after the bug was marked “Fix Released” (!). Remember to re-check the page you’re commenting on, and press F5 if necessary. And if your input to the bug will only consist in “it affects me too, fix it!!!!1”, I’d say it’s better to avoid commenting. By the way, Launchpad has a button you can click to mark you as affected.

Everyone should read every Bugzilla’s etiquette, and Ubuntu’s own commenting guidelines. Sometimes it’s just dreadful having to deal with all of this, particularly when someone forgets you’re a volunteer triager and attacks you as if you were a Canonical employee, or something. (This didn’t happened to me this time, but in the past.)

And… this is just a note so you can have this in mind before commenting in bug reports. I’m as friendly as always, and you can contact me if you need help on bug triaging.

Re: “An Ubuntu Community that is a Community”

Fitoschido — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 20:17:34 +0000

(Disclaimer: This is a knee-jerk reaction to this post. I need to register to that stupid blog system to comment, so I preferred to respond here.)

No, Jonathan, I’m ^[1] not dead. If I sometimes don’t post anything is because I don’t have anything relevant to highlight (and it’s not like I want to follow Michael Meeks’ approach for blogging). You’re implying that the Ubuntu community is not “caring” and that Kubuntu is the “refugee” for us, or what is your point? Because honestly, adding a “k” to my community doesn’t change anything. I find it wrong to take advantage of your dissatisfaction with Canonical so you can advertise your “pet community”. ^[2]

You’re obviously discontent of the Mir announcement, but why are you mixing that with an unfounded accusation that the Ubuntu community ^[1] are suddenly disregarding all others?

You flopped it when you chose the title for your post.

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[1]: Read: me, my LoCo…
[2]: I know this isn’t the right term.

Where have all the good advertisers gone?

Fitoschido — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:23:55 +0000

Microsoft and its “Scroogled!” campaign remind me of the Free Software Foundation a lot. Both are falling into oblivion, both are doing nothing to support some of their project, and both are topic of news because they decided to attack others instead of making cool things.

Ubuntu-MX is now an approved LoCo team!

Fitoschido — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 21:29:57 +0000

I can’t say “thanks” enough times to the LoCo Council! Now, we just need to be more organized and less nervous.

BTW, congratulations to Ubuntu-ZA, which was also approved today.

Please

Fitoschido — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 19:54:21 +0000

Richard Stallman: stop hurting and dividing Linux communities. Stop your harshness. Stop exaggerating and creating FUD.

To be clear: I have critiziced the Shopping Lens before (as I think it’s currently poorly implemented, but I’m not completely against the idea), but calling the operating system “spyware” was just out of place.

It was ridiculous moaning. It was immature, and it was trollish. Richard, you should not prove your points so aggressively, it just doesn’t fit with your age. But I guess you have your “freedom” [1] to do so, isn’t it? I tell you: it’s not nice having to deal with rude people.

I think of Ubuntu (and all Linuxen) to be all fun, creating and improving stuff and meeting cool people… Oh, why am I writing this? It’s just not worth to feed the unshowered.

We are not that strong yet, to be shooting our own foot.
—Guillermo Garron

[1]: That’s actually debauchery.

Capital Sharp S for the Ubuntu typeface

Fitoschido — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 09:23:50 +0000

This is my first attempt at creating an additional glyph for the Ubuntu Font Family. I was checking out this bug report and decided to create the missing glyph.

Any typophiles out there? Which is the best approach to design a German Capital Sharp S (ẞ)? I will tweak it futher as time permits, following your suggestions. I have just started!

12.10 #QuantalMX release party!

Fitoschido — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 06:29:35 +0000

The Ubuntu-MX LoCo team and the Ubuntu-DF community have ironed out differences and are proud to announce they will organize a release party together, on October 27!

For more details, check out the event page and the announcement (Spanish).

Amazuntu might not be legal in Europe

Fitoschido — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 07:54:59 +0000

It’s good to see that I’m not the only one worried about the legality of the Unity Shopping lens, which is —IMHO— the most useless piece of software developed for Ubuntu.

Open source wins, as always: Ubuntu Software Center in Fedora/OpenSUSE

Fitoschido — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 10:37:10 +0000

This was one exciting Google Summer of Code project (spotted by Mikkel Kamstrup) that I can only applaud: the porting of Ubuntu Software Center to PackageKit!

Please see the original post for more details on this. Wow!