On Wednesday, July 20, 2011 05:43:23 PM Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > Recently, I know there's been some omgdrama with the DMB and some > Canonical teams. This comes, I believe, from being unsure which > Canonical projects are Ubuntu sub-projects (like, say, Ubiquity). > Rick, I believe, described DX as being "upstream" of Ubuntu. In the > most recent DMB meeting, an applicant who works on Orchestra said they > believe Orchestra to be "in parallel development" but not part of > Ubuntu. That applicant had uploaded some Orchestra packages, but only > very recently, so for packaging didn't meet "sustained" while for > coding would have (7 months), except that the applicant himself didn't > believe the coding to be a part of Ubuntu. Again, it's back to "does > this thing Canonical's doing under a name other than Ubuntu still > count as part of Ubuntu, or is it just another upstream?" That's > where we're getting stuck. And then I guess you could add "should > Canonical-sponsored upstream projects be treated differently than > other upstream projects for purposes of Ubuntu Developer status?"
I think it would be a serious mistake to treat them differently. Scott K -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
