Consilience

Happy Jaunty Release Day Everyone!

Those in the Southeast Michigan area are more than welcome to attend our release party THIS SATURDAY. We’ll be toasting to the next great Ubuntu release. Bring your friends, bring your laptop (free wifi!), bring your questions. I’ll bring stickers!

Important Details:
What: Jaunty Release Party!
Where: Corner Brewery
When: 7pm – ???
Why: Because Ubuntu is awesome! Because we’re awesome! Right on.
How: Need a ride? Join the mailing list.

Dan Chen (aka: crimsun) is the guy who puts a ton of his free time into making your sound work. Yes, there are complaints about sound not working for some folks but my experience with Dan was fantastic. Seriously, check out that linked bug report.

Synopsis:

• I reported the issue on March 17th with my steps to reproduce and alsa-info.sh output.
• The same day Dan replied with a suggestion.
• What you don’t see is the communication that happened next on IRC in #ubuntu-bugs.
• Dan then built a new kernel for me to test. I tested it that night and my problem was solved!
• After my initial positive feedback he tossed that kernel out for wider testing.
• Then, based on the feedback that fix was put into Jaunty on March 28th.

Now remember what happened on March 19th; Beta Freeze. Dan got this new patched kernel in Jaunty 2 days after Beta Release. That is pretty awesome in my opinion.

My nominee for Ubuntu Hall of Fame is Dan.