Ubuntu 8.10 - Ball dropped

[Collins Richey]

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 10:45 PM, Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 06:16:54PM -0700, Collins Richey wrote:
>> On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 3:54 PM, James McDonald
>> <james at jamesmcdonald.id.au> wrote:
>> > ... Ubuntu 8.10 seems to have failed in testing and the rush to meet the release deadline.
>>
>> In my experience with Ubuntu (1+ yr, but now outdated) that practice
>> was always the case.
>>
>> <rant on>
>> And, of course, the practice of dropping every imaginable POS untested
>> package from Experimental into the opening round of the next release
>> ...
>> <rant off>
>
> On that note:
>
> http://www.kurtwerks.com/blogwerks/archives/2008/11/29/ubuntu_release_names/
>
Quote from kurtwerks:
"Now perhaps Ubuntu's developers can focus on fixing the distribution
instead of coming up with cutesy names."

To do that they'll need to fix the process first.

-- 
Collins Richey
     If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries
     of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.