Unity Development Roadmap

[dale-f-beaudoin]

@chanath

I don’t think there’s anyone maintaining Compiz at Cannonical.

There are some persons who would like to work quietly and in a focused environment.

[dale-f-beaudoin]

@chanath

Maybe, I am not reading every single post, so I don’t know about TB taking care of this. As far as I know, TB is not interested in Compiz. If I remember correctly, TB asked if you know how to maintain Compiz. I don’t think there’s anyone maintaining Compiz at Cannonical. Maybe, just keeping an eye on it, until 16.04 eol comes about. Its just business.

Here are the three questions the TB has aksed of us:

• Which source packages in the archive are you proposing that this package
  will maintain as part of this flavor? Which source packages are you relying
  on others to maintain?

• Does your team have an existing track record of uploading to the Ubuntu
  archive those packages that you will be maintaining? Which source packages, and which members of your team? Are the members of your team who have done these uploads committed to carrying this work forward? (To be specific: I see several members on your team who are Canonical employees and may be emotionally invested in the project, and have uploaded these packages in the past when they were maintained by Canonical; but this does not necessarily mean they are personally committed to shouldering this work going forward.)

• Who on your team has upload rights to the packages in this set? Who are you proposing should have upload rights?

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A lot of this is dealt with in the wiki. Khurshid is working on the sponsorship aspect and upload rights with others on the team … so there will be a few more nips and tucks before we can do an actual build on Canonical server and get a mix into the QA tracker.

Regards…

[chanath]

Yunit team forked Unity 8 out, and are independent, so whether they succeed, or not the result is their own. They answer for themselves. No one at Ubuntu wants/needs Unity 7. So, the idea is to fork Unity 7 out and be independent. Ubuntu is not a community distro, but a business. The (paid) developers have to work for the pay. Who would work against what’s bringing in the paycheck?

Somewhat off topic; considering that Ubuntu is based on buster/sid, I installed Debian buster/sid and Gnome on it. I’ve been testing it for few days, updating everyday. No problems whatsoever. That’s far as I’m going to check on Gnome-shell.

[dale-f-beaudoin]

@chanath

No one at Ubuntu wants/needs Unity 7.

That is very far from the truth.

@chanath

The (paid) developers have to work for the pay.

We don’t expect them to work for free for the development service they are providing.

@chanath

Who would work against what’s bringing in the paycheck?

This is conjecture and not factually correct from a community aspect. This kind cynicism is counter-productive to recruiting for the team we are trying to build. If you disagree with me then I invite you again to sign the CoC and I would gladly pass along recruiting duties to you.

Regards…

[ian-weisser]

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