Application for official community flavour status for budgie-remix

[David Mohammed]

Thank you Steve,

  the key package budgie-desktop I have submitted to Debian.  Its been
through a couple of reviews but unfortunately I haven't found a debian
mentor to help take the package through into Sid :(


Will try as recommended with most of the other packages in the budgie-remix
PPA to send via Debian - finding mentors willing to give up their free time
to guide us seems to be difficult.

I will tell the team your recommendations.

Cheers

David


On 7 June 2016 at 19:48, Steve Langasek <steve.langasek at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> On Mon, Jun 06, 2016 at 11:55:30PM +0100, David Mohammed wrote:
> > To all members of the technical board,
>
> >   On behalf of the budgie-remix team, we would like to bring to your
> > attention our Ubuntu based distro - budgie-remix - which uses the superb
> > budgie-desktop environment.
>
> > We would like to pursue official community flavour status - "Ubuntu
> > Budgie".  The reason for this early application is because of a Wimpey
> > recommendation that we pursue official status early in the 16.10 cycle
> > rather than wait for 17.04 or later.
>
> > We have prepared a short presentation - a libreoffice 5.1 based impress
> > slide-deck - also available in PDF.
>
> > The presentation has several https based links to view external content
> > such as an excellent video-short.
>
> > These are available to download and view via a shared google-drive
> folder:
>
> >  - https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5yvyAZqOxQrQVFDVGlhUnRhTjQ
>
> FWIW I think it would be more conducive to discussion with the Technical
> Board if you would lay out the salient points directly in your email.
>
> In looking over the google presentations you provided, I think it's
> premature to consider an Ubuntu Budgie official flavor.  As I understand
> it,
> your current build relies on a number of packages that are not in the
> Ubuntu
> archive, and thus does not currently even qualify for the definition of an
> "Ubuntu remix" as it was set out by Canonical.  It also appears, based on
> my
> reading of your presentation and an 'apt-cache search budgie', that all of
> the key packages defining this flavor which your team would be responsible
> for maintaining are not currently in the Ubuntu archive.  I don't see any
> way that the Technical Board would give its seal of approval to an official
> Ubuntu flavor without your team first establishing a track record of
> effectively maintaining your component packages within the Ubuntu
> community.
>
> My recommendation is that you should focus on getting your packages fully
> integrated into the Ubuntu archive, including any changes to the image
> build
> infrastructure (livecd-rootfs package, ubuntu-cdimage project) necessary to
> build official budgie remix images, then ask the Technical Board to revisit
> this question based on your observable progress.
>
> Hope that helps,
> --
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