Just to clarify. Ubuntu Budgie has always had upload rights to its core application set since just after 16.10. Yesterday I have also applied for the complete UB packageset rights for the DMB meeting on the 25th.
thanks David (Ubuntu Budgie project lead) On Tue, 12 Mar 2019 at 18:54, Erich Eickmeyer <eeickme...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > > Hello Technical Board, > > I would like to make a plea/argument for keeping Ubuntu Studio's flavor > status for this current release cycle and beyond. > > As you know, up until yesterday, nobody on the Ubuntu Studio team had > upload rights in any way, despite previous efforts to gain such upload > rights. As such, Ubuntu Studio had been limping along since prior to > the release of 16.04. At that time, Set Hallstrom (sakrecoer) had been > elected project leader banking on the idea that Ross Gammon (Rosco2) > would gain upload rights. Despite their best efforts, that didn't > happen until yesterday. > > This happened because the project lead prior to Set, Kaj Ailomaa > (zequence), had retired. I have it on good authority that it was less > of a retirement so much as it was a burn-out and quit with malice. > Apparently, Kaj was so upset that he attempted to kill the project with > his retirement by deliberately not handing-off the project, and making > sure nobody had upload rights prior to his departure. I cannot verify > these accusations, but this information was given to me by a pior > Ubuntu Studio team member, currently on hiatus. > > Now that myself and Ross have been given upload rights to the core > packages, we are struggling to get Ross upload rights to the > packageset. While I can understand that need, I could find no evidence > of such a high requirement outlined in > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RecognizedFlavors. In fact, the only > requirement I could find that pertains is as follows: > > * One or more developer with upload rights. > > That does not specify in what form those upload rights must be. > Granted, it would be easy to change the phrasing on that requirement, > but then that requirement could unnecessarily push Ubuntu Studio and > Ubuntu Budgie from both being recognized flavors, as Ubuntu Budgie is > in a similar situation at the moment. > > So, with this, I would like to plea that the Technical Board not to set > that bar so high that it kills one or more official flavors that are > both active in development. I believe that such an action would harm > the Ubuntu community irreparably. For example, Ubuntu Studio is > planning a 20.04 LTS release, and if 19.04 is not allowed to be > released, even if 19.10 is allowed, Ubuntu Studio 20.04 would not be > allowed to be an LTS due to this requirement: > > * Must have a proven track record of participating in at least 2 > non-LTS releases before applying to TechnicalBoard for LTS designation. > > I will be watching the meeting today. I have an appointment just prior, > so I hope to make it back in time to participate if called-upon. > > Thank you for your consideration. > > Respectfully, > Erich Eickmeyer > > ---- > Erich Eickmeyer > Council Chair > Ubuntu Studio > > ubuntustudio.org > > -- technical-board mailing list technical-board@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/technical-board
