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Questions about "why wasn't my app accepted/rejected" or "what's the status of my app" should be addressed by the representatives of Canonical. We've consistently closing them as we really can't help …

That one question fits the definition of too broad, you will need to write the equivalent of a book to start answering the question. Also, I would downvote it, it doesn't show any research effort, and …

Why? I mean, we are advocates that people worrying about security issues, should use supported version of Ubuntu, since they aren't being totally patched. There are several CVEs that were fixed in sup …

The problem with those questions is that they tend not only to generate polls about the "most popular resource" but also "link-only answers" that we hate too much. For example: What GIMP tutorials a …

Recently in chat we noticed some kind of oddity about the whole 12.10 > 13.04 > 13.10 upgrade path, where Raring will reach EOL before Quantal and how that will play out for us and for the users upgra …

I will give a reason why I voted to close first: In that particular question, to me, doesn't seems to be a problem within the bounds that Ubuntu will have the same behavior and more like the changes …

Before this post gets downvoted to hell: I think that programing questions about using the system calls/interface are on topic. But isn't on topic how to write a "hello world" in C. This is alread …

I have no idea why they say that systemd is "Experimental code" when is considered stable enough to land in the next iteraction of Debian Jessie as their main init system. What it is experimental is …

Final response: This question came up a while ago on Ask Ubuntu, and Jorge asked me to help respond to it: How will people upgrade from 12.10 to later releases after 13.04 is EOL? I've …

Rules of migration: Don't migrate crap. Only migrate if the target site wants the question. See No. 1. If OP ask to be migrated, let it. See No. 3. That question violates 1, 3 and 5. ;)

We've got couple of questions about ChrUbuntu, installing Ubuntu on a Chrome Book, problems that happens only when you use these modified scripts. So, they are welcomed with all that it carries or the …

So, I was mailed about this. I'm not happy. In fact, I knew it wasn't anything good. I was the one that voted to close that question as not reproducible, and I would do it again. The question has bee …

So, are these issues really on the scope of the site. …

Title says it all. This question inspired this meta-Q. So, are questions about removing another OS but Ubuntu on-topic? Relevant comments: mint is offtopic on askubuntu. But you can format the partit …

Ok, apparently we don't have a clear set of rules about the software-recommendation: As long as any answer is correct, the question is not a place for Ask Ubuntu. – Braiam 4 hours ago @braiam any que …