Ubuntu Cinnamon for Official Flavor Status

[Joshua Peisach]

Hello TB,

Successful developments have been made. Ubuntu Cinnamon images have been produced for the past week, and the needed changes to livecd-rootfs and ubuntu-cdimage are mostly complete. Testcases are being made for the QA tracker. Additionally, our packages are now in the official archive, our seed is good, and we are in good shape for 23.04.

If 23.04 is not approved as an official flavor for Ubuntu Cinnamon, 24.04 will not be an LTS release, as per the rules (2 non-LTS for 1 LTS).

I am requesting, as UI freeze approaches, and Beta will soon roll ahead, the Technical Board’s approval for flavor status. After I send this email, I will add this item to the Technical Board Agenda.

As a full-time student, I am busy, but I am okay with voting or discussion over ML or IRC.

Thanks,
-Josh

On Nov 28, 2022, at 12:34 PM, Joshua Peisach <itzswirlz2020 at outlook.com> wrote:

Hello Technical Board,

I’m Joshua Peisach, the lead of the Ubuntu Cinnamon Remix (https://ubuntucinnamon.org, https://twitter.com/UbuntuCinnamon). For almost three years now, the Ubuntu Cinnamon Remix team have maintained Ubuntu Cinnamon through seven releases since 19.10. We have also maintained the project through contributing to security uploads relevant to Cinnamon (see caribou CVE-2021-3567), and have been maintaining Cinnamon in Debian with Fabio Fantoni and the Debian Cinnamon Team. (https://salsa.debian.org/cinnamon-team)

Considering the amount of time that has passed, the current relationship with Ubuntu Cinnamon and the Ubuntu community, we are applying for official flavor status, starting with our 23.04 “Lunar Lobster” release. (Proposal: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuCinnamon/23.04/Proposal)

We have many people on the team, along with several MOTUs. Other than myself, fossfreedom has helped us with maintenance of the Nemo file manager, Jeremy Bicha, Simon Quigley and Erich Eickmeyer are all MOTU’s for our uploads, and I am also talking with Aaron Rainbolt as we both continue our Ubuntu journey together. We also have worked with Phillipp and Monica from the Community Team, all current existing leads (especially rs2009, Martin Wimpress and Rik Mills), and work with the Yaru team towards maintaining Cinnamon theme support. There is also Initu Castilhos, who has also helped with the ‘Cinnamon’ color variant of the Yaru theme. There are plenty of developers and contributors that will ensure Ubuntu Cinnamon Remix remains stable with high quality assurance.

I am looking forward towards the application process, and official flavor status.

Our launchpad team: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntucinnamon-dev
Our GitHub: https://github.com/Ubuntu-Cinnamon-Remix

Thanks,
-Josh

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