Ubuntu Unity as an official flavor

Tue Aug 30 17:17:31 UTC 2022

Hi Steve,

Thanks for considering our proposal for official flavor status for Ubuntu
Unity.

- Sorry, didn't mention the MOTU in the Considerations section of the
proposal (I actually mentioned the MOTU in the Support Plan section).
seb128's the MOTU, who's been uploading the Unity package updates to
universe since a really long time. Added this info to the Considerations
section of our proposal.

- Sure, I've added `ubuntu-unity-meta` to the package list. We'll switch
over from bzr to git for the seed, no problem.

- Like I mentioned on IRC, I accidentally added VLC to the list when
replacing Totem with VLC. I've removed it now.

Thank you very much for your feedback.

Kind regards,
Rudra Saraswat

On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 10:33 PM Steve Langasek <steve.langasek at ubuntu.com>
wrote:

> 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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