Announcement from www.kubuntu.de

[Vayu]

On Sunday 09 April 2006 10:16, Christoph Wiesen wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 9. April 2006 18:03 schrieb Vayu:
> > On Sunday 09 April 2006 07:59, Mirjam Wäckerlin wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > This announcement just has been made on the site www.kubuntu.de. I
> > > post it here for your acknowledgement and for discussion:
> > >
> > >
> > > This website, including the forum, the mailing lists and the
> > > respective IRC channels (#kubuntu-de and #kubuntu-de-team) has one
> > > aim: to support the community, to offer a platform to the users of
> > > Kubuntu and, last but not least, to boost the Kubuntu-project so as to
> > > make it an outstanding distribution.
> > >
> > > We all from the kubuntu.de - team have poursuited this aim together,
> > > but most of the work has been done by Andreas Müller (amu). He is not
> > > only co-founder and unpayed developer of the Kubuntu-project, but he's
> > > also hosting this website and he's taking over all the arising
> > > expenses.
> >
> 
> Note, that I'm not a part of kubuntu.de nor a kubuntu developer in any way, 
so 
> my comments are just those of a (concerned) user.
> 
> 
> > Please clarify, is this kubuntu.de or the entire kubuntu project?
> 
> From the announcements it's pretty clear that this is about kubuntu.de and 
the 
> developer manpower of amu, I think.



> 
> > I also have questions:
> > What exatly is your point of criticism? I mean what is it all about?
> >
> > This is the first time i heard about such problems und do not understand
> > this context.
> >
> > Maybe you could explain more depply.
> >
> > bye Thilo
> 
> 
> I'd also like to hear more about the specifics, but looking at the 
> announcement I think it's pretty serious news that requests by people who 
> spend their free time (without any payments) on making Kubuntu a better 
> distribution get completely ignored by Canonical and Shuttleworth - the same 
> Shuttleworth that some weeks ago announced he's using Kubuntu himself now 
and 
> will make it "a first class citizen".
> 
> Having only ONE payed developer for a whole desktop distribution compared to 
a 
> complete company for Ubuntu is in my book pretty unequal.

From the original post it is not clear whether the one developer is for all 
kubuntu or for the german version of kubuntu.  At one point in the post it 
referred to kubuntu.de then later in the post they referred to "the kubuntu 
project".   What the scope of Canonical's paid support to worldwide kubuntu 
is not clear from that post. Devoting one paid developer for kubuntu.de vs 
kubuntu is a big difference and I wouldn't comment on the merits of 
Canonicals' level of devotion to kubuntu until that point is clear.