"We do also intend to appoint a dedicated person focused on community processes rather than Canonical processes; while they won't be expected to *do* this work, they would be a natural coordinator and able to provide more insight to all the groups that share the archive for their different goals."
This is both great news and a good step in the right direction. It would at least get everyone marching towards the same goal. Dustin. On Wed, 12 Aug 2020 at 01:00, Mark Shuttleworth <m...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > > It has been an intense time for multiple groups, thank you both for > being willing to pull this frayed thread back into the tapestry. > > The many flavours of Ubuntu are an important part of our story, and > occasionally it helps to remind ourselves of that. > > Free software is great because it enables people to pursue diverse > interests and passions without having to get a central endorsement. > Anybody can make a distro that explores the ideas they are interested > in, without seeking Linus' blessing, or any company support. However, > they then have the full burden of 'doing it right', with all the > infrastructure and security and update work that entails. As a result, > many of the more specialist distros suffer on base quality or security. > > Our flavours are a way of enabling people to express and share their > interests in a different take on Linux, but benefit from all the shared > effort that goes into the archive, at the (hopefully small) cost of > coordinating in the archive and around releases. > > Perhaps it would be good to have a dashboard of things like queue length > and wait time, together with a single 'status' page where current > constraints could be expressed, if we don't already have that. > > We do also intend to appoint a dedicated person focused on community > processes rather than Canonical processes; while they won't be expected > to *do* this work, they would be a natural coordinator and able to > provide more insight to all the groups that share the archive for their > different goals. > > Mark > > > -- > Ubuntu-release mailing list > ubuntu-rele...@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-release >
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