Ubuntu Cinnamon for Official Flavor Status

[Lukasz Zemczak]

Hello Joshua!

Thank you for officially reaching out to us! I'm really happy that you
decided to submit a formal proposal for Ubuntu Cinnamon as a flavor.
I've seen your engagement in the Cinnamon remix during recent
releases, so it's nice to see you want to join Ubuntu now fully,
officially!

I don't think I have any concerns with the proposal you have
submitted. For a moment I was a bit confused by the github link to the
metapackage/seed, as I saw the seeds already existing on Launchpad,
but now I see it's more of a repository for the metapackage *package*
itself. Good. I see you have some designated sponsors, ubuntu-core-dev
is member of you flavor team + a few others. The list of packages seem
sane as well. I'll maybe take a moment later to browse though the
seeds in more detail, but all looks fine so far.

So at least from my side, with both my Techboard and Release Team
hats, you have my approval. I will bring this up with other Release
Team members in case they have missed the e-mail here. Once we have a
full Release Team approval, we will bring it up at the next TB meeting
to formally vote you in.

Let me get back afterwards as well on who would be your
point-of-contact for any release-specific enablement from the Ubuntu
Release Team.

Best regards,

On Mon, 28 Nov 2022 at 19:52, Joshua Peisach <itzswirlz2020 at outlook.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Technical Board,
>
> I’m Joshua Peisach, the lead of the Ubuntu Cinnamon Remix (https://ubuntucinnamon.org, https://twitter.com/UbuntuCinnamon). For almost three years now, the Ubuntu Cinnamon Remix team have maintained Ubuntu Cinnamon through seven releases since 19.10. We have also maintained the project through contributing to security uploads relevant to Cinnamon (see caribou CVE-2021-3567), and have been maintaining Cinnamon in Debian with Fabio Fantoni and the Debian Cinnamon Team. (https://salsa.debian.org/cinnamon-team)
>
> Considering the amount of time that has passed, the current relationship with Ubuntu Cinnamon and the Ubuntu community, we are applying for official flavor status, starting with our 23.04 “Lunar Lobster” release. (Proposal: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuCinnamon/23.04/Proposal)
>
> We have many people on the team, along with several MOTUs. Other than myself, fossfreedom has helped us with maintenance of the Nemo file manager, Jeremy Bicha, Simon Quigley and Erich Eickmeyer are all MOTU’s for our uploads, and I am also talking with Aaron Rainbolt as we both continue our Ubuntu journey together. We also have worked with Phillipp and Monica from the Community Team, all current existing leads (especially rs2009, Martin Wimpress and Rik Mills), and work with the Yaru team towards maintaining Cinnamon theme support. There is also Initu Castilhos, who has also helped with the ‘Cinnamon’ color variant of the Yaru theme. There are plenty of developers and contributors that will ensure Ubuntu Cinnamon Remix remains stable with high quality assurance.
>
> I am looking forward towards the application process, and official flavor status.
>
> Our launchpad team: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntucinnamon-dev
> Our GitHub: https://github.com/Ubuntu-Cinnamon-Remix
>
> Thanks,
> -Josh
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