Ubuntu Governance: Reboot?
Vincent JOBARD
vinzjobard at gmail.com
Wed Nov 19 10:18:03 UTC 2014
Hi Jono,
I think that a part of the lack of motivation is the feeling that lots of
people have to be betrayed by the decision made by Canonical without
talking to the community first for strategic reasons.
I can understand that, there's so big opportunities for Ubuntu in the Cloud
and the phone and I see that new Mac OSX or Windows functionalities were on
Ubuntu first.
Mark was very persuasive about this last time I saw him.
But we need the clearly define the Scope of Canonical to avoid
misunderstandings.
And the Community have to communicate more about their projects.
So if a functionality introduced to Ubuntu by Canonical is hardly attacked
(e.g Unity, Mir), the Community have to communicate that is Canonical
flavor but there's others flavors with others DE in Ubuntu and there's not
managed by Canonical.
If the Community can communicate more about their own projects and scope
maybe we can avoid Ubuntu bashing and raise up the motivation of our
contributors.
Cheers
Winael
Le mer. 19 nov. 2014 08:14, Jono Bacon <jono at jonobacon.org> a écrit :
> On 18 November 2014 20:58, Scott Kitterman <ubuntu at kitterman.com> wrote:
> > Reform implies a problem to be solved. I've read both Jono's an your
> blog
> > posts more than once, and I've yet to identify an actual problem that
> can be
> > solved by an actual proposal.
>
> Reform doesn't have to be about a problem. Reform can be about
> *opportunity*.
>
> Look, if the current method of governance continues, everything will
> be just fine. Ubuntu will continue tick over as normal: nothing is
> going to collapse and fall over. As others have stated, the current
> governance members are doing a fine job within the current charter and
> expectations.
>
> My point is that I think we are missing out on an opportunity to do
> more, to reach more people, and to build a strong community. I am just
> asking our leaders to consider proactive motivation and inspiration
> within their charter to help grow out community.
>
> > "Reform - we should have some" isn't a plan. Starting off with
> alienating
> > existing contributors isn't so great either.
>
> I don't see who is alienating contributors. What I am seeing here is
> the exchange of ideas to explore potentially new ways of doing things.
>
> While I would not wish to alienate people, and I am sure Randall did
> not wish to in the email you are responding to, what isn't going to
> form a plan is sticking our fingers in our ears to new ideas and
> opportunities for making Ubuntu better.
>
> This feedback of mine, and this idea, might be pure bobbins, but at
> least we are having a discussion and exploring it. Isn't that the
> point of Ubuntu in the first place - to collaborate around new ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
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