Hi David, On Mon, Jun 06, 2016 at 11:55:30PM +0100, David Mohammed wrote: > To all members of the technical board,
> On behalf of the budgie-remix team, we would like to bring to your > attention our Ubuntu based distro - budgie-remix - which uses the superb > budgie-desktop environment. > We would like to pursue official community flavour status - "Ubuntu > Budgie". The reason for this early application is because of a Wimpey > recommendation that we pursue official status early in the 16.10 cycle > rather than wait for 17.04 or later. > We have prepared a short presentation - a libreoffice 5.1 based impress > slide-deck - also available in PDF. > The presentation has several https based links to view external content > such as an excellent video-short. > These are available to download and view via a shared google-drive folder: > - https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5yvyAZqOxQrQVFDVGlhUnRhTjQ FWIW I think it would be more conducive to discussion with the Technical Board if you would lay out the salient points directly in your email. In looking over the google presentations you provided, I think it's premature to consider an Ubuntu Budgie official flavor. As I understand it, your current build relies on a number of packages that are not in the Ubuntu archive, and thus does not currently even qualify for the definition of an "Ubuntu remix" as it was set out by Canonical. It also appears, based on my reading of your presentation and an 'apt-cache search budgie', that all of the key packages defining this flavor which your team would be responsible for maintaining are not currently in the Ubuntu archive. I don't see any way that the Technical Board would give its seal of approval to an official Ubuntu flavor without your team first establishing a track record of effectively maintaining your component packages within the Ubuntu community. My recommendation is that you should focus on getting your packages fully integrated into the Ubuntu archive, including any changes to the image build infrastructure (livecd-rootfs package, ubuntu-cdimage project) necessary to build official budgie remix images, then ask the Technical Board to revisit this question based on your observable progress. Hope that helps, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [email protected] [email protected]
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