Hi, Robie,
Thank you for your email and for taking the time to answer.
I now better understand the Technical Board and the Release Team roles
when it comes to Official Flavours.
I had taken my questions, concerns to Discourse, as the first email I
received after contacting the board about the matter led me to think
that I might not receive an answer from the Technical Board. My
experience on Discourse was not a pleasant one. I believe that I wrote
my Discourse messages with a courteous tone, clearly reflecting my
opinion about a subject that mattered to me, as a long time Ubuntu user.
The answers I got were on a very different tone. They included negative
extrapolations about my intent, stated that I never collaborated to
Ubuntu when I have provided translations for so many years, at some
point. Then one of the Canonical moderators even went as far as writing
that I was bashing on Canonical. That is not what I was doing.
I do understand that moderators may be overly sensitive, but why such
attacks against me?
I have over three decades of professional background with major global
players, and I react better to people who respect me. Lack of respect is
toxic, and I avoid it. That is why after reading the answers I got from
the two Canonical employees on Discourse, very public and offensive
misinterpretations of my intent, I decided to move away from the Ubuntu
community.
Helping can also come in the form of someone coming forth by expressing
detailed concerns, as I did, hoping these concerns would reach the right
teams and stakeholders.
I have followed and used Ubuntu in one form or another since its
inception. I have the highest regards for the company Mark created, and
for the many people who devoted their time making Ubuntu the solid OS it
is, as Canonical employees or community members.
For four days, I no longer use Ubuntu for work or at home, as I have
installed another Linux distribution supported by a community I feel
better respect my contribution and myself as a person. I will also
migrate the friends and family whose computer I support to that other
Linux distribution.
Again, Robie, thank you for your courteous email, and best wishes to
you, Canonical and the Ubuntu team in their endeavours.
Kind regards,
Alain-Olivier Breysse
Certified Translator
Le 2025-10-21 à 15 h 52, Robie Basak a écrit :
Hi,
Related
post:https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-unity-25-10-is-yet-to-be-released/69589
Thank you for caring about the quality of Ubuntu!
Further to today's Technical Board meeting, along similar lines as
others have mentioned on Discourse:
The project relies on volunteers who choose what they want to work on.
Unfortunately that means that we aren't in a position to task volunteers
to do anything. If they're not interested in working in the areas you
identified, they'll work in some other area, or not at all.
The Technical Board can set standards, such as what flavours we'll call
"official". Flavour qualification is mostly delegated to the Release
Team to drive. I suppose we could disqualify a flavour, but that's not
something we would take lightly, we would only do it in consultation
with the Release Team, and only after a conversation with the relevant
developers. We would much prefer that conversation to end with a good
flavour release over disqualification. In any case, disqualification
doesn't seem to be what is being requested here.
The Technical Board can also provide encouragement or seek to change
something that is hindering volunteers. But I don't see any specific
suggestions that could lead to Technical Board action in this area.
Therefore there doesn't appear to be any action that is appropriate for
the Technical Board to take here, except to encourage volunteers to help
with the issues you've raised. Anybody can participate, including you!
Thanks,
Robie
On behalf of the Technical Board
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