Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Some thoughts, (Off Topic)

2018-09-23 Thread Hank Stanglow
On 09/23/2018 07:45 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 23 Sep 2018 16:09:33 -0700, Hank Stanglow wrote: growing emphasis on Snaps But even if you stay with Ubuntu and snaps, it's not easy to use it for pro-audio software, if possible at all. The point I was trying to make is the distribution

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Some thoughts, frustrations, and considerations.

2018-09-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 23 Sep 2018 16:09:33 -0700, Hank Stanglow wrote: >growing emphasis on Snaps It's just a growing hype from a minority of Ubuntu developers involved in snap development. "Search thousands of snaps used by millions of people across 50 Linux distributions" https://snapcraft.io/store

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Some thoughts, frustrations, and considerations.

2018-09-23 Thread Hank Stanglow
Hi. I have been following Ubuntu Studio since 2011 and it holds a special place in my heart. I am sad to see development slow down, but I also feel like changes in the way software is packaged and distributed made this inevitable. I stopped using Ubuntu Studio a couple years ago for a few

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Some thoughts, frustrations, and considerations.

2018-09-23 Thread Thomas Pfundt
Hi Erich and everyone else reading, -‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, September 21, 2018 5:55 PM, Erich Eickmeyer wrote: > My proposal is to keep Ubuntu Studio's ISO as Xfce, but to develop > metapackages that bolt Ubuntu Studio on to an existing install of > another flavor. I'm going

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Some thoughts, frustrations, and considerations.

2018-09-23 Thread Len Ovens
On Sun, 23 Sep 2018, ttoine wrote: involved (MOTU and other people like that for Ubuntu). More, in some open source projects, only committers can vote on strategic decisions, and it's bad when they ignore theirs users or don't understand a specific emerging use of their project. That's why

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Some thoughts, frustrations, and considerations.

2018-09-23 Thread Erich Eickmeyer
Hi Ross, On 9/21/2018 2:03 PM, Ross Gammon wrote: > Hi Erich, On 09/21/2018 05:55 PM, Erich Eickmeyer wrote: >> Hi everybody, As many of you know, Eylul stepped-down from the core >> leadership of Ubuntu Studio on Saturday. With Eylul's departure, we >> lost one of our key developers. She had

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Some thoughts, frustrations, and considerations.

2018-09-23 Thread ttoine
Erich, Thank you for your message. Reading it hurts a bit, but I agree with you on most points. That's actually a common issue in open source: if you have a team with project manager, UX designer, documentation writer, or beta testers, at some point, your project can't exist if there is no coder,