Comment 7 for bug 57379

On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 05:26:41PM -0000, Dustin wrote:
> I also am curious: could any of the multiple solutions be
> complimentary to each other? Like could more than one solution be
> used? Rather than spending lots of time and effort reaching a
> consensus on picking one solution, why not just go ahead with the
> first and easiest one, and if a better solution comes later, maybe it
> can also be used (if it is complimentary)?

It is well worth the investment in thinking through the problem before
deploying a solution. The availability of a proof of concept implementation
of one idea is useful and we will look at it, but it would not be wise to
rush a new feature in, especially one which modifies the boot process of an
installed Windows system. Anything we do in this respect must be carefully
considered and thoroughly tested before being released.

We're well into feature freeze for Ubuntu 7.04 (the beta release is just a
few weeks away now), and we plan to discuss this topic at the Developer
Summit in early May, after the release.

> More roads leading to Ubuntu is a good thing, IMHO, plus I also feel
> Ubuntu needs to act fast to compete with Vista.

This is good reason to be creative, but not to be reckless.

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 - mdz