Since it has been about six months since the first alpha release of the Ubuntu GNOME Remix, I believe we are ready to ask if Ubuntu GNOME can join the list of officially recognized Ubuntu flavors. The Ubuntu GNOME Remix set out to create a desktop with a relatively pure GNOME experience, now that the default Ubuntu desktop has diverged a fair degree from GNOME in design and function. We were losing users and developers to other distros because we no longer provided an easy way to get a non-Unity GNOME experience. GNOME Shell has become a popular desktop in its own right and I'm excited about the future (the new GNOME Classic mode for GNOME Shell 3.8 looks especially nice for only a few months of work).
All of the packages we need have been in Ubuntu since last September. We follow Ubuntu's release cycle, having released our own beta 2 and stable release for 12.10 on the same days as the Ubuntu project and we've done SRUs. - Our seed can be found at https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-gnome-dev/ubuntu-seeds/ubuntu-gnome.raring - Our developer team is https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-gnome-dev - We have an IRC channel (#ubuntu-gnome) and a mailing list (https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-gnome) - We don't really have a website yet but we used the Ubuntu wiki for our 12.10 Release Notes https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGNOME/ReleaseNotes/12.10 We are a bit understaffed but I think many of the Ubuntu flavors suffer from that problem. I already have upload rights to the desktop and universe sets which is mostly sufficient for maintaining our packages. I'm looking forward to seeing Tim Lunn (darkxst) and Rico Tzschichholz (ricotz) apply for upload rights in the not too distant future. All three of us have signed the Code of Conduct. We don't have a separate QA Lead at this time; I'm hoping that daily builds will improve our testing efforts and community participation. If our request is approved, I'd also like to change our name from 'Ubuntu GNOME Remix' to 'Ubuntu GNOME Edition'. This would match the other Ubuntu flavors that don't use the *buntu naming convention. Jeremy -- technical-board mailing list technical-board@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/technical-board
