Thank you all for the work behind this positive message :-) Best regards/Nio
2013-12-04 17:08, Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph skrev: > Hi everyone, > > A couple weeks ago Ali reached out to the Ubuntu Community Council (of > which I'm a member) to express concern over control of Lubuntu.net > > In the weeks since, the CC has had some great discussions with Julian > and Mario about their work on the site and their vision, which I > wanted to share with the team. > > 1. They are active! Both have access to the site and have assured us > that they work with some Lubuntu Art folks. > > 2. Mario's team of contributors has a specific vision for Lubuntu.net > that is clean, easy to maintain and contains official, important > announcements and links to other resources where everyone can > contribute (like the wiki, Mario specifically indicated that they want > to leverage the ecosystem that Canonical has provided for teams) > > Now, there is obviously a communication breakdown between this team > and Mario's team, so I've worked with Mario to come up with a plan: > > Instead of using Drupal, Mario is going to work over the holidays to > switch the site over to Jekyll/Markdown. All of the site's code will > then be placed in revision control (possibly github) so that > contributors can directly submit changes for review. > > There will also a be an issue/bug tracker so contributors can use that > if they aren't comfortable using the tools or contributing directly. > > In short, no more needing to directly email Mario or Julian to make > fixes for you! And all change requests will be public so you don't > need to worry that your email got lost or ignored, the whole community > will be able to track the status of changes. When an issue comes up in > the future it can be handled publicly. > > Now, I do ask that the team works to preserve the simple vision that > Mario and his current team have for the site in keeping it clean and > easy to maintain so I think changes should be confined to fix-ups, > factual updates and other major issues at this point. > > Finally, Mario believes that a healthy ecosystem for Lubuntu includes > a variety of resources, so neither of us believe the Lubuntu Blog is > any kind of threat to Lubuntu.net and that it's a good addition to the > Lubuntu project. So I'd suggest doing away with the plan to *replace* > Lubuntu.net with the blog and instead focus on continuing to make the > blog a great resource for folks who want the latest development news, > calls for participation, tips and tricks. This is a nice complement to > the low-traffic official news/announcement way that Lubuntu.net works, > which is preferable to folks who aren't interested in development or a > frequently updated blog. > > Keep up the great work, this team has done a great job in managing > Lubuntu's social media presence and maintaining the new blog, so I > believe moving forward with those focuses will keep you all busy :) > -- > Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph || Lyz || pleia2 > http://www.princessleia.com -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-comms Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-comms More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
