Hi Jeremy, I'm in favor of this. It seems well put together. Thanks!
-Kees On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 03:29:35PM -0500, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > 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 -- Kees Cook -- technical-board mailing list technical-board@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/technical-board
