Thank you for all of your work as Kubuntu release manager. Michael Hall [email protected]
On 10/23/2015 04:52 AM, Jonathan Riddell wrote: > With 15.10 successfully released I'm standing down as release manager > of Kubuntu. > > Making Kubuntu over the last 10 years has been a fantastic journey. > Even since I first heard about a spaceman making a Linux distro using > Debian but faster release cycles I've known this would be something > important and wanted KDE to be part of it. Bringing together KDE and > Ubuntu has created the best operating system we can and the best > community to work on it. > > The life of an international freedom fighter is a fun one, I've > travelled the world on private jet to meet extraordinary people and > see amazing places. I watched monkeys swing from the network cables > of Bengaluru and raced motorcycles through the slums of Kano. I was a > a bit put out to be attacked by pirates in the Carribean but the help > of the Kubuntu community and wider Ubuntu community helped me come > back. > > Community made open source software needs people to be able to take > out what they've put in. Ubuntu's licences and policies enforce this. > However for the last three years Ubuntu's main sponsor Canonical has > had a policy contrary to this and after much effort to try to rectify > this it's clear that isn't going to happen. The Ubuntu leadership > seems compliant with this so I find myself unable to continue helping > a project that won't obey its own community rules and I need to move > on. I won't be going far, I'll be helping out in KDE more, the > original and best end-user free software community who have always > been wonderful. > > Ubuntu now needs to work out if it still wants to be a community made > project. I've heard from too many people who feel they have been > bullied out of the project for this to be a personal problem. It > needs a community council who will stand up for the third party and > volunteer developers, who will criticise when money is collected for > additional use of community but not used for this and who will ensure > the Ubuntu policies on copyright licences are not in question and > above all one that does not cause people to leave the project being > felt they have been bullied out. Good luck. > > In Friendship > > Jonathan > -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
