Comment 3 for bug 541937
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| Theodore Ts'o (tytso) wrote Re: copying files to an usb pandrive is slow and slows down in time (Lucid Lynx) | #3 |
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No, no, no!!!!!
Please, can we not tell people to dogpile onto bug #197762?
That bug is so dogpiled as to be useless.
We need to have separate bugs for separate performance problems, instead of assuming that all reported performance problems with USB drives should be directed to a bug that multiple people have been trying to shut down as "there's no intelligent life here, Scotty", which was opened over two years ago, and for which there are at least three separate and distinct problems, and probably more, all horribly mixed together.
Can someone official in Ubuntu step up and say whether or not this horrible practice should be continued?
I'm seriously thinking about writing a blog entry, "Why Launchpad is terminally broken, and why all upstream devs should ignore it as a waste of their time", and pointing to #197762, and misguided attempts to get people to dogpile onto this misbegotten bug, as a exhibit number #1 as to why kernel developers are ignoring Launchpad and why it is more of a menance than a help to upstream developers. If canonical isn't providing upstream development assistance, and they're not providing enough talented people to do bug triage, and they are claiming that the value they are bringing to upstream projects is lots of users and lots of bug reports, this is a prime example of why This Isn't Working For Us.