Ubuntu Studio (and others) Flavor Status

[David Mohammed]

Just to clarify.

Ubuntu Budgie has always had upload rights to its core application set
since just after 16.10.  Yesterday I have also applied for the
complete UB packageset rights for the DMB meeting on the 25th.

thanks

David (Ubuntu Budgie project lead)

On Tue, 12 Mar 2019 at 18:54, Erich Eickmeyer <eeickmeyer at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Technical Board,
>
> I would like to make a plea/argument for keeping Ubuntu Studio's flavor
> status for this current release cycle and beyond.
>
> As you know, up until yesterday, nobody on the Ubuntu Studio team had
> upload rights in any way, despite previous efforts to gain such upload
> rights. As such, Ubuntu Studio had been limping along since prior to
> the release of 16.04. At that time, Set Hallstrom (sakrecoer) had been
> elected project leader banking on the idea that Ross Gammon (Rosco2)
> would gain upload rights. Despite their best efforts, that didn't
> happen until yesterday.
>
> This happened because the project lead prior to Set, Kaj Ailomaa
> (zequence), had retired. I have it on good authority that it was less
> of a retirement so much as it was a burn-out and quit with malice.
> Apparently, Kaj was so upset that he attempted to kill the project with
> his retirement by deliberately not handing-off the project, and making
> sure nobody had upload rights prior to his departure. I cannot verify
> these accusations, but this information was given to me by a pior
> Ubuntu Studio team member, currently on hiatus.
>
> Now that myself and Ross have been given upload rights to the core
> packages, we are struggling to get Ross upload rights to the
> packageset. While I can understand that need, I could find no evidence
> of such a high requirement outlined in
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RecognizedFlavors. In fact, the only
> requirement I could find that pertains is as follows:
>
>  * One or more developer with upload rights.
>
> That does not specify in what form those upload rights must be.
> Granted, it would be easy to change the phrasing on that requirement,
> but then that requirement could unnecessarily push Ubuntu Studio and
> Ubuntu Budgie from both being recognized flavors, as Ubuntu Budgie is
> in a similar situation at the moment.
>
> So, with this, I would like to plea that the Technical Board not to set
> that bar so high that it kills one or more official flavors that are
> both active in development. I believe that such an action would harm
> the Ubuntu community irreparably. For example, Ubuntu Studio is
> planning a 20.04 LTS release, and if 19.04 is not allowed to be
> released, even if 19.10 is allowed, Ubuntu Studio 20.04 would not be
> allowed to be an LTS due to this requirement:
>
>  * Must have a proven track record of participating in at least 2
> non-LTS releases before applying to TechnicalBoard for LTS designation.
>
> I will be watching the meeting today. I have an appointment just prior,
> so I hope to make it back in time to participate if called-upon.
>
> Thank you for your consideration.
>
> Respectfully,
> Erich Eickmeyer
>
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> Erich Eickmeyer
> Council Chair
> Ubuntu Studio
>
> ubuntustudio.org
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