Making Canonical's/Ubuntu's contributions more visible

[Jonathan Jesse]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 7:29 AM, Thomas Novin <thnov at xyz.pp.se> wrote:

> On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 14:00 +0200, Przemysław Kulczycki wrote:
> > One of the often accusations against Ubuntu is that it only takes from
> > other projects (Debian, Red Hat, Novell/Suse...) and doesn't give back
> > anything. Ubuntu should make it more visible for others to see what does
> > it contribute to upstream/floss community.
> > Red Hat and Novell have websites listing their contributions to free
> > software:
>
> I just read an interesting article on Phoronix and while looking at the
> contributors you can see that Ubuntu/Canonical isn't mentioned at all.
>
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> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=x_server_contributors&num=1
>
> (go to page 3,4)
>
> As one of the comments on Slashdot said; I think it would be good if
> every major distribution had at least one developer helping with X.org.
>
> Phoronix actually offers cash awards to people fixing X.org-bugs. That's
> the least Canonical could do, IMHO.
>
> Rgds
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At one time wasn't Canonical hiring an X Maintainer?  I thought I sw it at
http://webapps.ubuntu.com/employment/ a while ago.

Jonathan
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