[Pkg-ayatana-devel] About your article "Other Linux Distros' View of Ubuntu's Unity: It Ain’t Pretty"

[Bruce Byfield]

The article is now revised to reflect your comments.

On Tuesday 17 May 2011 10:01:46 Bruce Byfield wrote:
> Evgeni:
> 
> Please calm down. Assuming the worst and making demands is not the way to
> get what you want. All you really had to do was ask.
> 
> In fact, the truth is quite simple. For whatever reason, I never got your
> replies, or I most certainly would have included them. I'll have a look at
> them now, and see if the editor will allow some revisions. If he won't,
> I'll add a comment to the article.
> 
> On Tuesday 17 May 2011 08:12:01 Evgeni Golov wrote:
> > Hi Bruce,
> > 
> > today I finally found the time to read your article "Other Linux
> > Distros' View of Ubuntu's Unity: It Ain’t Pretty" [1] and I musst admit
> > I am stunned about the following paragraph:
> > 
> > "The closest activity to packaging Unity appears to be the Ayatana
> > Packagers, a project to add Ubuntu's app-indicators to Debian. But the
> > project, which includes the filer of the Intent to Package for Unity,
> > appears only moderately active, and none of its members responded to
> > queries."
> > 
> > This is far from true, sorry.
> > You asked about Unity in a private mail to me (and others) on the
> > 05/12/2011 and got a long reply from me and Adnan the next day
> > (Message-ID: <4DCCD547.7070106 at debian.org>).
> > So two members of the team took the time to answer you and you did write
> > that up as no response? Sorry, I don't buy this :)
> > 
> > A copy of our mail is attached to this mail, I expect you to read it and
> > update your article ASAP.
> > 
> > Kind regards
> > Evgeni Golov
> > 
> > [1]
> > http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3933716/Other-Linux-Dis
> > tr os-View-of-Ubuntus-Unity-It-Aint-Pretty.htm

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