Thanks again for your constructive engagement in pursuing official flavor status.
I am satisfied that your team has met the requirements for inclusion as a daily flavor and am voting +1 for Ubuntu Unity moving forward with daily builds. Becoming a recognized release flavor for 22.10 is contingent on successfully participating in the 22.10 Beta milestone. On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 10:47:31PM +0530, Rudra Saraswat wrote: > Hi Steve, > > Thanks for considering our proposal for official flavor status for Ubuntu > Unity. > > - Sorry, didn't mention the MOTU in the Considerations section of the > proposal (I actually mentioned the MOTU in the Support Plan section). > seb128's the MOTU, who's been uploading the Unity package updates to > universe since a really long time. Added this info to the Considerations > section of our proposal. > > - Sure, I've added `ubuntu-unity-meta` to the package list. We'll switch > over from bzr to git for the seed, no problem. > > - Like I mentioned on IRC, I accidentally added VLC to the list when > replacing Totem with VLC. I've removed it now. > > Thank you very much for your feedback. > > Kind regards, > Rudra Saraswat > > On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 10:33 PM Steve Langasek <steve.langa...@ubuntu.com> > wrote: > > > Hi Rudra, > > > > Thank you for your interest in becoming an official flavor. > > > > Some initial feedback on > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuUnity/22.10/Proposal: > > > > - You mention that you have a MOTU supporting the team but don't say who it > > is. Please call out explicitly who the uploaders are on your team so we > > know who to contact in case of issues (and also to confirm with them they > > are on board with being represented as part of the official flavor > > effort!). > > > > - You list individual desktop components which is important. I think > > ubuntu-unity-meta should also be listed here (it's important that this > > package exists, it's to your credit that it is already in the archive and > > being maintained.) > > > > - I notice that the seeds used for building this metapackage are in bzr. > > Can you please migrate these to git? While it's not a stated policy > > for > > new flavors, as a member of the release team I am generally unwilling > > to > > add new references to bzr branches in our code; we are in a long-term > > migration from bzr to git and dealing with bzr branches for seeds for > > the small number of flavors still using them is an awkward wart on our > > workflow. > > > > - ~ubuntu-core-dev is already a member of ~unity7maintainers, perfect! > > > > - It strikes me as odd that you include vlc on the proposal wiki page. I > > don't think application selection is relevant to flavor approval, as long > > as the applications you're selecting are from the Ubuntu archive; and I > > would not expect vlc to be included in a package set that unity7 > > developers are given per-package upload rights to merely because it's > > included in your image by default. (It is included by several other > > flavors, for example, so any issues with that package's maintenance would > > affect more than just Ubuntu Unity.) > > > > Overall this looks like a fine proposal, and I expect we'll discuss more at > > today's TB IRC meeting. > > > > On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 11:55:50PM +0530, Rudra Saraswat wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm Rudra Saraswat, the dev of Ubuntu Unity ( > > > https://twitter.com/ubuntu_unity, https://ubuntuunity.org). We are > > > interested in applying for official flavor status, after having > > maintained > > > and developed Ubuntu Unity and Unity7 for over two years (we've had six > > > releases so far, including two LTS releases). Here's our flavor proposal: > > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuUnity/22.10/Proposal > > > > > > We also recently released Unity 7.6, the latest version of the Unity7 > > > desktop environment, which includes a number of new features and a > > revamped > > > UI. We've also been collaborating with the UBports team and are > > interested > > > in maintaining a Lomiri variant of Ubuntu Unity with the release of the > > > 24.04 LTS (by which time most of the Lomiri/Unity8 packages should be > > > present in Ubuntu). > > > > > > We have a number of people on-board, including Khurshid Alam, who's been > > > maintaining Unity7 really well all these years. There's also Maik (who's > > > also an Ubuntu Member),Tobiyo (also involved with the Lomiri team) and > > > Allan Carvalho, our designer. Muqtadir from the Yaru team, had added > > > support for Unity7 to Yaru and is still involved in the team (you may > > know > > > him from the Yaru accent colors project, which was implemented in Ubuntu > > > 22.04; we also later added support for accent colors in Unity 7.6). > > > > > > Our packages are being sponsored by seb128. Here's the PPA: > > > > > https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-unity-devs/+archive/ubuntu/stable/+packages > > > > > > Here's the source code of Unity 7.6 and Unity Control Center 7.6: > > > https://gitlab.com/ubuntu-unity/unity/unity and > > > https://gitlab.com/ubuntu-unity/unity/unity-control-center > > > > > > Thank you. > > > > > > Kind regards, > > > Rudra Saraswat > > > > > -- > > > technical-board mailing list > > > technical-board@lists.ubuntu.com > > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/technical-board > > > > > > -- > > Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS > > Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. > > Ubuntu Developer https://www.debian.org/ > > slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org > > -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer https://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org
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