[ubuntu-marketing] Making Canonical's/Ubuntu's contributions more visible

[Colin Watson]

On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 12:02:15PM -0500, Matthew Nuzum wrote:
> On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 4:36 AM, Przemysław Kulczycki
> <przemekkulczycki at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Good. I hope something will be done about it ASAP.
> > Reading all those comments about Ubuntu not contributing anything is really
> > irritating.
> 
> Let's start a wiki page at:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Website/Content/UbuntuContributions

Przemysław added Ubiquity to this page. As the primary maintainer of
Ubiquity for a couple of years (although it belongs more to Evan now),
I'm not really convinced it belongs there. Ubiquity is Ubuntu-specific
in a lot of ways, and its remit is to make the Ubuntu installation
process as painless as possible. While I'm sure it would be
theoretically possible to use it for other Debian-based distributions,
it would be a good deal of work to get all the necessary underpinnings
ported over; porting it to non-Debian-based distributions would be a
horrific task and basically a rewrite. I don't think it's an obvious
candidate for mentioning under our contributions to the free software
community, as it's really just for ourselves.

Przemysław, given this explanation, do you agree? If so, please go ahead
and remove it, perhaps leaving a comment in the page source so that it
doesn't just get added back by another well-meaning contributor.

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]