Is this mailing list defunct?

[Roland Taylor]

On 10/09/2011 03:32 PM, Jorge O. Castro wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Sebastian Rösgen
> <s.roesgen at googlemail.com>  wrote:
>> first of all: thanks to Craig. I share your opinion. One should at least
>> listen to these "pet" bugs and try to appear as if one cared about these
>> bugs. They way how it people deal with these bugs is -- to me -- a display
>> of a behaviour which is beyond arrogance. It is as if the Ubuntu/Canonical
>> developers thought, they were dealing with kids and not with mature people.
> Ok, but what does that have to do with forming a power user's team?
> There is already a mailing list to discuss design issues, why rehash
> that again here?
>
>> Let me refer (again) to those two pet bugs of mine and let me explain why
>> they are important to me. I really do not want to bore anyone, but I want
>> you to understand me. And I want to do this especially for Jorge, to simply
>> show him that his horse of arrogance is not providing him a saddle as steady
>> as he might think. The nice word "pet bug" belittles a huge problem posed
>> before the Ubuntu community and questions  the decision making processes
>> which I criticize so much.
> I have a list of bugs that bother me too, I'm just wondering how this
> list went from "let's make something cool for power users" to "let's
> all list all the things we don't like about Ubuntu". There is already
> a mailing list to discuss design issues, I thought this list was
> supposed to be about giving people tools to hot rod their systems.
>
>> Some month ago I asked on this list if somebody of the Canonical/Ubuntu
>> developers could say if it is possible that Ubuntu Tweak (after some
>> modifications) can be integrated into Ubuntu by default (to offer some more
>> options to configure the system). There was never any answer to this.
> UT isn't even packaged and in the distro yet, which is what I would
> have loved to see in 11.10. I would love to make easily installed, at
> UDS when I was talking with didrocks we discussed the possibility of
> having "about:config" in the dash just prompt you to install it, but
> alas we ran out of time.
>

I know I'm late - but +1000

Can we please not have the "let's talk trash about bugs and ponies we 
didn't get" in here :)?
Back to regular programming ;)

P.S. Anyone get UT running on 11.10?