Governance??? A wake up call

Scott Kitterman ubuntu at kitterman.com
Wed Nov 19 15:06:00 UTC 2014


On Wednesday, November 19, 2014 20:25:35 Aveem Ashfaq wrote:
> Dear Scott and others,
> 
> "Speaking as a Kubuntu developer and Kubuntu Council member, I don't see a
> need
> for this.  There are some points of friction, but they are primarily
> technical
> over Qt5 maintenance details and how the future transition to Mir/Wayland
> will
> be handled."
> 
> As a reply to that, I have not been in the community long enough to know
> the exact topics of issues and what are the solutions. I was just
> suggesting things to the best of my knowledge. The only issue that I have
> found leaking out was KDE dumping Mir for Wayland which was a while back
> (long time ago). Apart from that and discomfort over the general heading of
> Unity, I found nothing coming into discussion on g+.

KDE didn't "dump Mir".  It never supported it and upstream has made it clear 
that as long as Mir is a single distro solution, it won't.  This is OK as long 
as we have a good story in Ubuntu for systems that will need Wayland in the 
future (and I think we do).  So we've agreed to disagree.

Canonical's decision to go it alone on Unity/Mir for the "Ubuntu desktop" 
(just to disambiguate the multiple uses of Ubuntu) has caused a lot of 
friction with the larger FOSS world (as an aside, the Maryland LoCo - where I 
live - rebranded itself as Opensource Maryland to diassociate itself with such 
things), but within the Ubuntu (the project) we've mostly worked it out within 
the existing project management/governance structure.

Scott K



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