Hi Erich, This seems largely orthogonal to the point of the thread, but I think it warrants a response.
On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 10:18:36AM -0700, Erich Eickmeyer wrote: > Additionally, sunsetting things like this are sure ways to permanently kill > them. I look at Edubuntu as a prime example: it was sunset, and those that > have wished to revive it have been denied that simply because "it died > before, > what's to prevent that from happening again?". With both my Technical Board and Release Team hats, I am entirely unaware of any efforts to resurrect Edubuntu. So, who was wishing to revive it, and who dissuaded them? That said, when talking about an official flavor, which implies an ongoing resource committment from the larger Ubuntu developer community (i.e. the Release Team), it's entirely appropriate to ask questions about the level of committment from those proposing the flavor. > Somebody made an "Ubuntu Education Remix" because they felt they could > never revive Edubuntu because they'd be denied that ability. Well, in order to be able to call itself an Ubuntu remix, it must be using software only from the Ubuntu archive. When I google for this and download the iso, inspecting it shows that it hasn't enabled any archives aside from Ubuntu... but the customizations to the live environment (which are primarily branding) are done by modifying the contents of the squashfs directly, with no packaging associated with it. And there is very little educational software I can see having been added (the only thing I managed to work out from the package list was epoptes-client). There is an interesting mix of package selection, with ubuntu-unity-desktop as the only metapackage installed but packages preinstalled from a wide number of the different desktop flavors of Ubuntu. I'm sorry to say I don't see much here that looks like the seed for a revived Edubuntu. If this matures in the future (packaging of the remix-specific branding and submitting to the archive; proposed metapackages with some clear relationship to the claimed target of the educational market), the option to make it an official Edubuntu flavor always exists. -- 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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