On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 3:11 AM, Stéphane Graber <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, > > Hi everyone, > I'm sending this e-mail on behalf of the current Edubuntu project > leaders, Jonathan Carter and myself. > > Jonathan and I have both been involved in Edubuntu for a long time > (almost 10 years for Jonathan and almost 9 for me). We were at first > just contributors, then became council members and after the council got > disolved due to lack of candidates, as the two project leaders. > Thank you both for everything you, the community behind the project and everyone else had done! > > > A lot changes in that many years and while at the start we both had a > considerable amount of spare time to invest in making Edubuntu great, > even getting paid for it at times, that is simply not the case anymore. > Totally understand. > > We've both moved on to new projects, with the hope that we would one day > find some time to work on Edubuntu again. That's why we decided to make > Edubuntu LTS-only after the 14.04 release, hoping that over the course > of two years we would find the needed time to make a good Edubuntu 16.04 > LTS. > Good luck with the new projects :) > > This plan didn't quite work out as we're now a month away from the 16.04 > release with little to no work having been done on Edubuntu. > > We could of course patch things up a bit, drop the things that don't > work and call it good enough. But we don't think that would be fair to > our users who are expecting a well thought through distribution where > all details have been taken care of. > I understand. > > > That's why I'm announcing today that Edubuntu will NOT be releasing a > 16.04 LTS version. Instead, Jonathan and I will focus on ongoing support > of Edubuntu 14.04 LTS until it goes EOL in April 2019. > Sad but true. > > > That's not to say that Edubuntu is dead, at least not yet. > Glad to know :) > > While Jonathan and I will solely focus on fulfilling our promise of > support for Edubuntu 14.04 LTS, new contributors are absolutely welcome > to take over the Edubuntu project and shape it to their liking. > I'm replying this email to announce publicly that I'd like to take over the project and hopefully after 16.04, there might be a new version/release. Whatever the case is, I'm interested to take over :) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/amjjawad I've been involved with many projects for many years. For the last 2 years, I've become very interested and super active in Education and E-Learning. I have my own projects which focus on Education and it's a great chance for Edubuntu to play a major role and take a part in what I'm doing and what I'm very interested in. I have a quick idea in mind but can't just share it at the moment unless I make sure it will work. Those who have worked with me for years, they know for a fact that when it comes to ideas, I'm one of those who could make a real change. You may want to have a look at my wiki page above. > . > The two of us will be happy to sponsor any Edubuntu related uploads, > will help new contributors get Edubuntu membership and then hold > elections to setup a new Edubuntu Council which would finally take > the whole project over from us. > > If you agree that I take over, it would be great if I still can get some help/support from you both or from whoever else involved :) > > Should none of that happen by the time Ubuntu 17.10 is released, > Jonathan and I will ask the Technical Board to revoke Edubuntu as an > official flavour and will be removing any leftover packages from the > archive, remove our seeds and any cdimage build integration, effectively > removing Edubuntu from the Ubuntu release process. > > I don't and I hate to see that happens! > > > While a bit late as far as announcing this, I think our plan fulfills > the "Step down considerately" clause of the Ubuntu Code of Conduct, > allowing for new contributors to pick things where we left them or to > come up with a completely new vision if they prefer. > > Sad about that but I think that's the best thing to do! > > > It's been a fun ride for the two of us and we very much hope that this > won't be the end of Edubuntu but instead a new beginning for this great > Ubuntu flavour! > Yet again, wish you both the ultimate best :) > > Sincerely, > > The retiring Edubuntu project leaders, Jonathan Carter and Stéphane Graber. > > -- > Ubuntu-release mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-release > > Thank you! -- Remember: "All of us are smarter than any one of us." Best Regards, Ali/amjjawad <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/amjjawad>
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