I have removed the posts on Envy from Planet Ubuntu, therefore you will have to keep an eye directly on my blog if you want to read more about Envy’s releases, etc.
The rest of my blog posts will appear on the Planet.
I have removed the posts on Envy from Planet Ubuntu, therefore you will have to keep an eye directly on my blog if you want to read more about Envy’s releases, etc.
The rest of my blog posts will appear on the Planet.
I didn’t follow the story.
What happens ?
Well, I just reached Envy trough the Planet Ubuntu, and was there that I read about Envy’s releases… Well, if this is your wish, I guess I’ll have to remember visiting here (no i don’t want one more RSS feed in my list).
By the way, thanks for your hard work and please, keep it!
I too would likley not have used Envy if it was not for your posts in Planet Ubuntu, so I don’t quite understand this move, but that is of course totally up to you.
If anyone would like to only subscribe to the Envy news, as to not get the rest of the posts both in the Planet Ubuntu feed and this blogs feed, here’s the feed of just the Envy category: http://albertomilone.com/wordpress/?feed=rss2&cat=12/
is there a special reason why you removed it from the planet?
Can you publish the realease in gnomefiles or something like this ?
Since envy is not — yet — in ubuntu it would be a good tric to keep envy up to date.
Olivier.
Hi Alberto,
I don’t really know why you wanted to remove your announcements from the Ubuntu planet. Was it because you had to double-post? Or was it that you didn’t want them to use your feed?
Anyway, I just wanted to tell you that your RSS feed is used in the Linux Mint Planet and as a consequence, your posts appear here: http://linuxmint.com/planet/
Tell me if that’s ok. Of course if there’s any problem with that I’ll remove your feed from the planet’s list.
PS: It’s important to us that you’re in the Mint planet because you release often and as your package is present in our default selection and used by a lot of our users it pushes us in releasing envy more often in the Romeo repo between two releases.
Thanks,
Clem.
@All
I removed the posts on Envy from Planet Ubuntu because yesterday I received an email from an Ubuntu developer (who spoke for herself and not for Ubuntu) who suggested that I remove my posts on
Envy from the Planet since “many people don’t use envy […] and have no need to see those repeated posts”(this is only a part of the email).
I had never thought that my posts could be annoying therefore when I read that email I removed them from the planet.
Maybe I should have asked your opinion first. This morning I asked Jono Bacon’s opinion and I’m waiting for his reply.
In the meantime, if you think my posts should be back to the Planet, please let me know.
@Clem
I’m glad to be on Linux Mint Planet. There is no need to remove my feed from there 😉
put your post back.. Whoever told you it was annoying was just plain wrong. I don’t have a box that uses envy right now but I have and I expect to in the future. I’d like to know it’s progress and I think the Ubuntu forum is just as good a place as any.
Although I’m not using Envy, I’d vote for bringing back to Planet Ubuntu. Other people also use their blog for progress reports, so why shouldn’t you? Why blame the ones who follow the ‘release early & often’ principle?
tom
Put your posts back up there. This has the silly feeling of getting “automatixed” if you ask me. A SINGLE developer thinks your absolutely AWESOME program for ubuntu shouldn’t be there? If that’s the case, then about 80% of the political drivel posted on the planet SHOULDN’T BE THERE EITHER.
At least with ENVY, we have ubuntu application stuff, and for my 2 cents, your posts are NEEDED!
I like the Envy updates in Ubuntu Planet, even though I don’t use it myself.
I also vote to have it put back on Planet. It’s an important part of Ubuntu. It’s the only GUI that has ever consistently gotten ATI drivers to work for me (and I just don’t have the desire to do all the heavy lifting myself anymore).
I’d just like to say “thanks” for all your hard work.
I very much applaud that you remove your envy postings from planet ubuntu. There were just too much recently which is kind of irritating. Of course people who are irritated won’t come here to comment. However I think you should be free to publish major updates about Envy to the planet. But not just for every little update, as it quickly becomes spamming. Most other planet posts talk about issues, with your recent postings I had more the feeling your were posting lists.
I get comments similar to that concerning my blog from time to time. Who knows, it may have been the same “one developer”. If I stopped doing my blog because of one nasty comment the whole thing would have been gone long ago.
This “one developer” doesn’t run the planet, the community does and it looks very clear to me that the community wants to see your blog. +1 from me to put it back.
Hi!
+1 for envy to be back on planet ubuntu! Thanks a lot for a great app! Waiting for a gutsy version 😉
Hello Alberto,
I knew about Envy already for about one year now, but I couldn’t use it at that time (because I was already using feisty). Now I’m already using gutsy (due to some kernel problems in feisty in relation to my hardware) and couldn’t use Envy again – until I read your posts on Planet Ubuntu about how to enable Envy for gutsy. I gave it a try and it just works! It’s a really amazing tool.
There are a lot of different postings on Planet Ubuntu which I’m not interested in, it’s always a personal view. But I didn’t have a problem with the fact that you removed it from Planet Ubuntu, as I just added your feed to my google reader 🙂
Seeing your postings on Planet Ubuntu would help newbies to become interested in Envy (specially you enable with Envy the use of the latest drivers and therefore to run the latest video cards on linux!). Maybe you could leave the frequent updates about the progress of Envy in your own feed – and just provide a from time-to-time-update about Envy on Planet Ubuntu?
Thanks for your great work,
I’m looking forward to the export feature 😉
Christian
Another +1 for putting envy back on Planet Ubuntu. Envy is a great app that you should be proud of! Great work!
-1 for putting those posts on planet ubuntu:
1) They are indeed unnecessary and annoying
2) The whole concept of envy is misguided and dangerous IMO; ubuntu already *has* drivers for nvidia, there is little to no reason to use something else, and it may actually cause problems with upgrades.
@chipzz
Let’s suppose that a user buys a new card that is not supported by the driver in Ubuntu’s repository. He would have 2 choices:
1) install the latest release of the driver (from Nvidia’s website or through Envy)
2) wait 6 months for a new Ubuntu release or return his card to the shop.
Another case: a user has a Geforce 8xxx. The driver in Ubuntu’s repositories has a well know bug which prevents him from using the card…
etc, etc, etc.
@albertomilone
Then the user should install the development release of ubuntu, not envy…
The dangerous thing about having these posts on planet ubuntu is newbies may be fooled into thinking that envy is the correct way of getting an nvidia card to work under ubuntu, even if it works perfectly fine with the included drivers, which it is not.
@chipzz
The user should install a development release??? Are you serious???
Here is what Ubuntu’s devs say about development releases:
“Pre-releases of Gutsy are *not* encouraged for anyone needing a stable system or anyone who is not comfortable running into occasional, even frequent breakage. They are, however, recommended for Ubuntu developers and those who want to help in testing, reporting, and fixing bugs.”
Furthermore you seem not to have read what I posted before.