New Derivative Distribution team formed.

[David Farning]

On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 00:03 -0600, Man-Chicken wrote:
> That does not sound like a bad idea to me.  Please let us know if you need a 
> hand with this stuff.  Our Free Software community does need some healing, 
> and it could be a very neat process.
> 
There is a Roadmap/todo list at wiki.ubuntu.com/DerivativeTeam/Roadmap I
have tried to make it a healthy blend of.
1.  Bureaucratic stuff - I don't want to step on Ubuntu's or Canonical's
toes.
2.  Relationship stuff - Contacting distributions that are base on
Ubuntu and starting a conversation.
3.  Coding stuff - Extending Ubuntu's existing tools to work better with
derivatives.

I am at a bit of a chicken or the egg situation as people want to see
two of the above goals met before they commit to the third one:)

Of the three, the most important is starting conversations with Ubuntu
based derivatives.  The concerns of derivatives have been showing so far
are:
1.  Meeting their users/customers needs.
2.  Bug handling/QA.
3.  Patch management.
4.  Standards.
 
Let's move this to -discuss for followup.

thanks
-- 
David Farning <dfarning at gmail.com>