Small communication problems - Linux Mint and Lancelot

Functional Programming in C++

Published by Ivan Čukić in the KDE development: Plasma section, on 14 March 2011

A few discussions regarding the communication between FLOSS projects are going on now. I’m not going to get involved in those for the time being (mostly because Aaron already said enough) - I’m just going to mention something that has no connection to Gnome, Canonical, or anything like that.

I’ve recently found out that Lancelot was the default menu in Linux Mint.

How did I found it out? Thanks to this bug report which states that it was a showstopper for Linux Mint 10 to use Lancelot as default. The good news is that the bug was fixed in a matter of minutes after reporting.

The bad news was that nobody from the Mint even tried to notify me of anything. How does anyone expect bugs to be fixed if those are not reported?

From my point of view, this should have followed the following algorithm:

Mint: Noticed a bug and they decided it was a showstopper for Mint 10 release
Mint: Report a bug (either by mail, IRC or BKO) stating that they would need it fixed for the release
Ivan: Fix the issue, commit to SVN (now GIT) and send a patch directly to Mint peeps

Would this be too much to ask?

Tino L.
Dobar Dan, Buon giorno.
I read here that you and clement got this all cleared up AND that you are doing a step more that will benefit other users of KDE, not just Mint:
http://www.muktware.com/n/15/2011/833/better-collaboration-between-linux-mint-and-lancelot
If it takes a bit more time but more can benefit, then kudos to you. We all use/work different distros but as one person said: "What is good for one distro is good for all of them."
THATS what makes free software strong.
Bravo.
Ivan Čukić
@<a href="#comment-25254" rel="nofollow">Tino L.</a>: Yeah, we had quite a nice chat on IRC. He is really a great guy and so is the work he is doing. :)
William Chambers
I've always had a low opinion of Linux Mint. It doesn't really surprise me.
foo
Mint has always been like that, they are proud of their independence too.
Jan
@<a href="#comment-25164" rel="nofollow">foo</a>: well, not reporting bugs upstream, specially if they don't fix them themselves either, is not what I'd call "independence"...
Ivan Čukić
@<a href="#comment-25166" rel="nofollow">Jan</a>: Agreed. Independence would be being able to fix all the issues they have by themselves.