I fell horrible. I haven't done much at all to help the cause and I use this distro every day all day. I apologize. This is an amazing work that I have grown to love over time. I will do my best to do better with helping and I want to thank everyone who has worked so hard to make Ubuntustudio happen. It's amazing and you guys are amazing!
Matt Cory K. wrote: > With Jaunty's impending release, the dev team has given thought to > Karmic and the projects future. I will attempt to form cohesive thoughts > for us all to consider. :) > > I and many in the linux audio game have become a little disheartened > with the current state of things. Things are just a mess. Trying to make > it all work together is a mind-numbing hassle. > > "Why can't I use Skype and Rythmbox?" and like questions I'm simply > tired of. We're *not* a general desktop distro. *Not* for new-to-linux > users. Linux audio plus learning linux is just to much to do together. > > So what can be done? > > One idea is dropping the other metas and focusing simply on Audio or > JACK apps. Our audio users are arguably the largest user segment. So > we just rip out things like Pulse and run JACK by default. (It's > been brought up before) But, there are many damn useful non-JACK > audio apps. Though, I feel the other metas included are a great way > to advertise what other multimedia tools are out there. > > Another idea was to stop creating disks altogether and just maintain > the metas, -RT and Ubuntu Studio Controls. Putting some > configuration back on the users. Art would stay as-is and still be > available in the repo. -desktop meta would disappear. > > I've even considered folding the project. > > > Another issue has been the lack of talented, dedicated, long-term > additions to the development team. We've had many great people come and > go over the life of the project but having the same 3 person core-team > all with other obligations has become an enormous strain. > > We've tried many times to get a proper testing and documentation team > together, an area where even novice users can help, but that has come to > nothing. > > Personally, it's been a contributing factor to my stepping down after > Jaunty. I've felt like "What's the point?" Users only complain when > things don't work and rarely help to fix them. Upstreams are slow or > altogether ignore issues we try to communicate to them. Whether you > think so or not, we're all in this together. It's a damn thankless job > (because none of us are paid) the devs do and it's taken it's toll. This > has been expressed by heads of other distros as well. > > I have very little confidence in the sustainability of the project as > things are. Painful as that is to say. And in the end, it's the users > that will lose out. > > > But back to the topic. ;) > > > So, what do you guys want? What are you willing to do? Everything is > *WIDE* open at this point. > > Besides this thread, there will be a series of meetings in > #ubuntu-meeting (IRC) coming soon. They will be important and if you > want a voice please make it a point to attend. > > Hopefully some of this made sense and won't get totally lost in the > holiday shuffle. ;) > > Almost down for the count, > Cory K. > > -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users