It would probably be a milestone to gather a user base large enough to be "officially supported" :D
On 1/11/07, Cody Somerville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Jani: Is it a goal of ours to become "officially supported" like the other two derivatives? On 1/11/07, Jani Monoses < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The term supported is vague and this leads to misunderstandings. > > The dev quoted by Cody, heno (Henrik Nilssen Omma) was right: > xubuntu is supported by sharing the same archive as the 3 main variants, > by having its developers in MOTU and/or ubuntu-core-dev, by providing > ISO build facilities and not least by 'unofficial' good will from many > canonical devs who take xubuntu issues in consideration when working on > u/k/edubuntu specific stuff. > > What it does not mean is financial backing from Canonical apart from > bandwidth and the implicit developer time their employees spend on > Xubuntu specific stuff. So no 24/7 commercial support for customers or > pressed CDs. > > And this makes a lot of sense from their POV as long as xubuntu has a > relatively small community (distrowatch is a misleading metric) and they > want to keep focused. > > So having daily images by no means makes xubuntu supported. For instance > those dailies could be broken AFAIK since there are no people testing > them regularly.That would be risky to support. > > The best way you can make xubuntu better is by contributing your time > and not wait for canonical or someone else to bear all the costs. > > I hope this clears it up. > > Jani > > > -- > xubuntu-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel > -- Firefox (www.getfirefox.com) -- A browser you can trust -- xubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel
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