<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Thank you Steve,<br><br></div> 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 :(<br><br><br></div><div>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.<br><br></div><div>I will tell the team your recommendations.<br><br></div><div>Cheers<br><br></div><div>David<br></div><div><div><div><br></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 7 June 2016 at 19:48, Steve Langasek <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steve.langasek@ubuntu.com" target="_blank">steve.langasek@ubuntu.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi David,<br>
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On Mon, Jun 06, 2016 at 11:55:30PM +0100, David Mohammed wrote:<br>
> To all members of the technical board,<br>
<br>
> On behalf of the budgie-remix team, we would like to bring to your<br>
> attention our Ubuntu based distro - budgie-remix - which uses the superb<br>
> budgie-desktop environment.<br>
<br>
> We would like to pursue official community flavour status - "Ubuntu<br>
> Budgie". The reason for this early application is because of a Wimpey<br>
> recommendation that we pursue official status early in the 16.10 cycle<br>
> rather than wait for 17.04 or later.<br>
<br>
> We have prepared a short presentation - a libreoffice 5.1 based impress<br>
> slide-deck - also available in PDF.<br>
<br>
> The presentation has several https based links to view external content<br>
> such as an excellent video-short.<br>
<br>
> These are available to download and view via a shared google-drive folder:<br>
<br>
> - <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5yvyAZqOxQrQVFDVGlhUnRhTjQ" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5yvyAZqOxQrQVFDVGlhUnRhTjQ</a><br>
<br>
</span>FWIW I think it would be more conducive to discussion with the Technical<br>
Board if you would lay out the salient points directly in your email.<br>
<br>
In looking over the google presentations you provided, I think it's<br>
premature to consider an Ubuntu Budgie official flavor. As I understand it,<br>
your current build relies on a number of packages that are not in the Ubuntu<br>
archive, and thus does not currently even qualify for the definition of an<br>
"Ubuntu remix" as it was set out by Canonical. It also appears, based on my<br>
reading of your presentation and an 'apt-cache search budgie', that all of<br>
the key packages defining this flavor which your team would be responsible<br>
for maintaining are not currently in the Ubuntu archive. I don't see any<br>
way that the Technical Board would give its seal of approval to an official<br>
Ubuntu flavor without your team first establishing a track record of<br>
effectively maintaining your component packages within the Ubuntu community.<br>
<br>
My recommendation is that you should focus on getting your packages fully<br>
integrated into the Ubuntu archive, including any changes to the image build<br>
infrastructure (livecd-rootfs package, ubuntu-cdimage project) necessary to<br>
build official budgie remix images, then ask the Technical Board to revisit<br>
this question based on your observable progress.<br>
<br>
Hope that helps,<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">--<br>
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Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world.<br>
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