Status of Xubuntu Support

[Vincent]

It would probably be a milestone to gather a user base large enough to be
"officially supported" :D

On 1/11/07, Cody Somerville <cody.somerville at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Jani: Is it a goal of ours to become "officially supported" like the other
> two derivatives?
>
> On 1/11/07, Jani Monoses < jani.monoses at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > The term supported is vague and this leads to misunderstandings.
> >
> > The dev quoted by Cody, heno (Henrik Nilssen Omma) was right:
> > xubuntu is supported by sharing the same archive as the 3 main variants,
> >   by having its developers in MOTU and/or ubuntu-core-dev, by providing
> > ISO build facilities and not least by 'unofficial' good will from many
> > canonical devs who take xubuntu issues in consideration when working on
> > u/k/edubuntu specific stuff.
> >
> > What it does not mean is financial backing from Canonical apart from
> > bandwidth and the implicit developer time their employees spend on
> > Xubuntu specific stuff. So no 24/7 commercial support for customers or
> > pressed CDs.
> >
> > And this makes a lot of sense from their POV as long as xubuntu has a
> > relatively small community (distrowatch is a misleading metric) and they
> > want to keep focused.
> >
> > So having daily images by no means makes xubuntu supported. For instance
> > those dailies could be broken AFAIK since there are no people testing
> > them regularly.That would be risky to support.
> >
> > The best way you can make xubuntu better is by contributing your time
> > and not wait for canonical or someone else to bear all the costs.
> >
> > I hope this clears it up.
> >
> > Jani
> >
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