Ubuntu Unity as an official flavor

[Steve Langasek]

Hi Rudra,

Thank you for your interest in becoming an official flavor.

Some initial feedback on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuUnity/22.10/Proposal:

- You mention that you have a MOTU supporting the team but don't say who it
  is.  Please call out explicitly who the uploaders are on your team so we
  know who to contact in case of issues (and also to confirm with them they
  are on board with being represented as part of the official flavor
  effort!).

- You list individual desktop components which is important.  I think
  ubuntu-unity-meta should also be listed here (it's important that this
  package exists, it's to your credit that it is already in the archive and
  being maintained.)

  - I notice that the seeds used for building this metapackage are in bzr.
    Can you please migrate these to git?  While it's not a stated policy for
    new flavors, as a member of the release team I am generally unwilling to
    add new references to bzr branches in our code; we are in a long-term
    migration from bzr to git and dealing with bzr branches for seeds for
    the small number of flavors still using them is an awkward wart on our
    workflow.

  - ~ubuntu-core-dev is already a member of ~unity7maintainers, perfect!

- It strikes me as odd that you include vlc on the proposal wiki page.  I
  don't think application selection is relevant to flavor approval, as long
  as the applications you're selecting are from the Ubuntu archive; and I
  would not expect vlc to be included in a package set that unity7
  developers are given per-package upload rights to merely because it's
  included in your image by default.  (It is included by several other
  flavors, for example, so any issues with that package's maintenance would
  affect more than just Ubuntu Unity.)

Overall this looks like a fine proposal, and I expect we'll discuss more at
today's TB IRC meeting.

On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 11:55:50PM +0530, Rudra Saraswat wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm Rudra Saraswat, the dev of Ubuntu Unity (
> https://twitter.com/ubuntu_unity, https://ubuntuunity.org). We are
> interested in applying for official flavor status, after having maintained
> and developed Ubuntu Unity and Unity7 for over two years (we've had six
> releases so far, including two LTS releases). Here's our flavor proposal:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuUnity/22.10/Proposal
> 
> We also recently released Unity 7.6, the latest version of the Unity7
> desktop environment, which includes a number of new features and a revamped
> UI. We've also been collaborating with the UBports team and are interested
> in maintaining a Lomiri variant of Ubuntu Unity with the release of the
> 24.04 LTS (by which time most of the Lomiri/Unity8 packages should be
> present in Ubuntu).
> 
> We have a number of people on-board, including Khurshid Alam, who's been
> maintaining Unity7 really well all these years. There's also Maik (who's
> also an Ubuntu Member),Tobiyo (also involved with the Lomiri team) and
> Allan Carvalho, our designer. Muqtadir from the Yaru team, had added
> support for Unity7 to Yaru and is still involved in the team (you may know
> him from the Yaru accent colors project, which was implemented in Ubuntu
> 22.04; we also later added support for accent colors in Unity 7.6).
> 
> Our packages are being sponsored by seb128. Here's the PPA:
> https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-unity-devs/+archive/ubuntu/stable/+packages
> 
> Here's the source code of Unity 7.6 and Unity Control Center 7.6:
> https://gitlab.com/ubuntu-unity/unity/unity and
> https://gitlab.com/ubuntu-unity/unity/unity-control-center
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Rudra Saraswat

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