Ubuntu 14.10 onwards: Convergence is coming...

[Jo-Erlend Schinstad]

On 17 April 2014 05:01, Robert Park <robert.park at canonical.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 7:44 PM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad
> <joerlend.schinstad at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I was very happy to read the main from Jason Warner, by the way. I'm just
> > not entirely sure what he means. I hope it means giving us desktop users
> a
> > period of calm, like the Gnome desktop used to be for ten years before
> the
> > whole Unity thing started. I love Unity, but the transition has been
> > complely exhausting. If they can move it off main stage for a couple of
> > years, I'll be happy as a kite.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by "main stage", but Ubuntu Trusty is our
> latest LTS, it will be supported for 5 years, and has the standard
> desktop Unity experience. Nobody is going to force you to use a phone
> interface if you don't want to.
>

You're very correct about that. After spending about 17 years in the
GNU+Linux community and about eight of them in the Ubuntu community, I
pretty much understand the basics of how it all fits together. But do you
think that this is an intelligent and respectful reply to my proposal that
the development of a new desktop is kept seperately from the continuation
of the past? To be honest with you, if an experienced user had made such a
comment to a new participant in any Ubuntu project I've been part of, I
would've told him or her that this was inappropriate and unacceptable.

If someone tells you that they're deeply passionate about an Ubuntu
project, then you don't go telling them if they have different ideas, then
they should go use something else. This is not how we do things.
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