Kubuntu Product Backlog

[Roman Shtylman]

I was always under the impression that the Council just decided on
membership and other non-technical details (but that is probly due to
my limited knowledge of how it works). The point I am really trying to
get across is that Kubuntu is a product, a product that ships to
users. And although all of the contributors of Kubuntu have vested
interest and want to make it better, there still is generally a point
of coordination and guidance on what the important things for each
cycle are. Generally this guidance comes from the product "owner" who
sees the global picture (user feedback, bug reports, developer
comments) from all facets of the product. I am not saying this is a
dictatorship role, it is mostly a role used in the planning
stages..etc. And from what I have seen in the past Jonathan has been
at all UDS events and been a heavy part of Kubuntu planning so that is
why I said what I did. If operations run a different way, I am sorry I
misspoke, I just wanted to stress the idea that at some point, someone
has to make a decision that speaks for the product :)

/rant

cheers,
~Roman

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 2:47 AM, Scott Kitterman <ubuntu at kitterman.com> wrote:
>
>
> "Alessandro Ghersi" <alessandro-ghersi at kubuntu.org> wrote:
>
>>2010/10/29 Roman Shtylman <shtylman at gmail.com>
>>
>>> In agile software development land
>>
>>this type of page can be referred to as a product backlog.
>>
>>This is basically a giant TODO list that is independent of any release
>>and
>>> contains items that are decided by the product owner (Riddell I
>>> suppose :p ).
>>
>>
>>Since you wrote "suppose" I'd like to explain :)
>>Riddell is a developer payed by Canonical.
>>Canonical is the commercial sponsor for Kubuntu.
>>Kubuntu and Canonical are registered trademarks of Canonical Ltd
>>
>>More important, Kubuntu is a community developed project.
>>Who make decisions is the Kubuntu Council.
>>
>>Someone correct me if I wrong.
>
> This is correct. I would like to make clear though that being a Canonical employee doesn't exclude someone from being part of the community.
>
> Scott K
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