Mark, Steve and the technical board, many thanks for your invaluable advice (email 9th Jun 16).
We would like to apply for package-set maintainer status for the budgie-remix packages currently available in Yakkety and if possible those proposed for Zesty. We would also like to reapply for official community flavour status for budgie-remix (ubuntu budgie). To support these applications please find enc (detail section) a link to a short PDF presentation We realise a presentation is not everyones cup-of-tea; in summary. All nine budgie-remix packages have been either accepted by Debian or accepted directly and/or reviewed by Ubuntu - three packages have successfully by reviewed by Ubuntu but missed the August freeze and thus we have reapplied for resubmission for Zesty. We have recently had two major releases - 16.04.1 and 16.10 versions of budgie-remix. Both have been well received and have followed the release schedule of Ubuntu. We regularly and promptly update our Debian packages with either new upstream releases or with critical & stability patches. We have excellent relationships with all upstream maintainers - through submitting fixes, further development, bug reports etc. We believe there is a significant new community of users that will fit well under the wide and diverse Ubuntu umbrella - evidence through direct visible statistics (website, sourceforge downloads) or indirectly through extensive news media, social media. The budgie-remix team is growing and enthusiastic - with increasing submissions from the community itself. We have met or exceeded our 16.04 and 16.10 goals and have a realistic plan for 17.04 and thereafter. If you have any questions please do not hesitate in asking. many thanks David Mohammed (project leader) Detail: tech board submission presentation: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5yvyAZqOxQrMkx5aXBlcTY4a1k package list: debian: moka-icon-theme, faba-icon-theme, arc-theme, budgie-desktop ubuntu: budgie-wallpapers, budgie-artwork budgie-welcome (zesty), budgie-desktop-environment (zesty), arc-firefox-theme (zesty) On 9 June 2016 at 23:31, David Mohammed <[email protected]> wrote: > Many thanks Mark for the advice and encouragement. > > I think this is the relevant ubuntu wiki advice > (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/NewPackages). > > We'll begin to upload our 16.10 packages to our yakkety-testing PPA > (https://launchpad.net/~budgie-remix/+archive/ubuntu/yakkety-testing) in the > next few days and follow the wiki advice to request a sponsor via a > launchpad "needs-packaging" bug-report. > > We'll start with the core upstream packages such as budgie-desktop that > we've already made Debian ready before moving onto the handful of "Ubuntu > budgie" specific packages. > > cheers! > > David > > On 9 June 2016 at 22:51, Mark Shuttleworth <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 08/06/16 04:26, David Mohammed wrote: >> > Thank you Steve, >> > >> > the key package budgie-desktop I have submitted to Debian. Its been >> > through a couple of reviews but unfortunately I haven't found a debian >> > mentor to help take the package through into Sid :( >> > >> > >> > Will try as recommended with most of the other packages in the >> > budgie-remix PPA to send via Debian - finding mentors willing to give >> > up their free time to guide us seems to be difficult. >> > >> > I will tell the team your recommendations. >> >> You might find it easier to find help by starting with those packages in >> Ubuntu, and then get them into Debian a little later. >> >> Mark > > -- technical-board mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/technical-board
