Building Safety Into Our Work

[Jono Bacon]

On Fri, 2011-05-20 at 14:55 -0600, Mike Basinger wrote:
> I think this need to be a key foundations of the power user community.
> Giving people the tools and info to tweak their system , but in a way
> that does not damage their installs or makes it difficult for the
> kernel/bug team to help people with bug reports.
> 
> We have enough sites inside/outside of Ubuntu that say "hey install this
> deb/ppa/file" it awesome and then 10 minute later the person has an
> usable system.

It seems one simple approach is just throwing warning notices everywhere
before someone pulls the trigger, but I also wonder if there a better
way of categorizing different options into different levels of risk.

This could arguably be performed within a tool such as Ubuntu Tweak.

Another thing I think we need is a Safety page on the Power User wiki
that explains that users should be careful, not just randomly install
debs from the Internet etc. Would anyone be interested in creating such
a page?

	Jono

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