[Ubuntu Studio] Cry For Help

[Erich Eickmeyer]

[Sent to: Ubuntu Studio Development, Ubuntu MOTUs, Ubuntu Release Team]

Hello all,

Over the course of the past few months, myself, Len Ovens, and Ross 
Gammon have been working hard on updating the Ubuntu Studio tools. In 
particluar, we have done a number of things to the tools:

 * Updated Ubuntu Studio Controls (ubuntustudio-controls) with a number 
of bug fixes
 * Renamed Ubuntu Studio Meta Installer to Ubuntu Studio Installer 
(ubuntustudio-installer) and gave it a secondary purpose of installing 
Ubuntu Studio's stack on top of a flavor other than Ubuntu Studio 
(think of Ubuntu Studio as a ToolKit)
 * Updated Ubuntu Studio's default theme and icon theme (part of 
ubuntustudio-look and ubuntustudio-default-settings in addition to 
ubuntustudio-icon-theme)
 * Updated Ubuntu Studio's plymouth boot theme (part of 
ubuntustudio-look)
 * Added a GRUB theme (grub2-themes-ubuntustudio)
 * Fixed bugs and missing apps in our menu (ubuntustudio-menu)
 * Worked upstream with the developer of Carla to get Carla in Ubuntu's 
repos.

Unfortunately, none of that made it in before feature freeze, despite 
my mailing our development list that it needed to happen, and tagging 
certain packages with [needs packaging]. Perhaps I'm just doing it 
wrong.

Basically, it comes down to this: Nobody on the Ubuntu Studio Team has 
upload privileges in any way. As such, these tools are sitting waiting 
to be uploaded.

So now, unless I'm wrong, each one of the packages now needs a Feature 
Freeze Exception to be uploaded into the repo. This is disappointing 
because, as of right now, Ubuntu Studio 19.04 is looking identical to 
Ubuntu Studio 18.10.

My intention was to apply to become a MOTU after the release of 19.04 
in order to prevent situations like this from happening again. 
Unfortunately, it looks like that will be too late unless we can get 
someone to get in and review these packages:

 * https://launchpad.net/grub2-themes-ubuntustudio
 * https://launchpad.net/ubuntustudio-controls
 * https://launchpad.net/ubuntustudio-installer
 * https://launchpad.net/ubuntustudio-icon-theme
 * https://launchpad.net/ubuntustudio-look
 * https://launchpad.net/ubuntustudio-menu
 * https://launchpad.net/ubuntustudio-default-settings
 * https://launchpad.net/carla

So, please take this as our cry for help to get these packages updated 
and included. I don't know how to do this, and I've never been shown 
the process. So, maybe my MOTU training sarts here.

Thank you for your time, and in advance for your help.

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Erich Eickmeyer
Council Chair
Ubuntu Studio

ubuntustudio.org