For what it's worth, Amy and I already decided to dedicate Edubuntu
25.04's release to Steve's memory. He was the primary release team
contact when we revived the project, and he would always re-toot our
announcements on Mastodon. It seemed like he was a supporter of the
project, although a quiet one.
Additionally, with my Ubuntu Studio hat on, Ubuntu Studio's 25.04
release will also be dedicated to him. When I was handed the project in
2018 and knew we needed a packager & uploader, I took it upon myself to
learn the ways. Steve guided me in what I needed to do to fix packages
before they would be approved, and was very patient with me, even when I
didn't see it. I don't think Ubuntu Studio would still be around today
if he hadn't helped me in the early days.
On 1/31/25 00:44, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
For my part I would be very happy to do that.
In addition, Steve suggested a particular name for 26.04 LTS, which I
won't share now.
Mark
On Thu, 30 Jan 2025 at 18:32, Aaron Rainbolt <[email protected]>
wrote:
On Thu, 30 Jan 2025 10:30:19 -0600
Aaron Rainbolt <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey all, had an idea that I wanted to share after talking about it
> with some other folks in Ubuntu.
>
> I don't know how else to say it, but Steve was awesome. I don't
think
> Ubuntu would be where it is now without him, and we're all still
> feeling the impact of him no longer being with us. Given how much he
> did for us, I'd love to see some lasting artifact commemorating him
> in Ubuntu.
>
> Back for the Ubuntu 21.04 release, the Release Team dedicated the
> release to Adam Conrad (infinity), after he made a similarly immense
> impact on the project and then passed away. As a fairly new Ubuntu
> contributor (compared to some of the long-time members around here),
> things like this are still helping me learn about and develop
respect
> for Ubuntu's rich history and the people who brought it to where it
> is. I think something similar would be appropriate for Steve, if it
> sounds OK to the Release Team.
>
> Me and several other people in the Ubuntu project talked about this
> during the Governance Sync Meeting on January 14th[1], where we had
> some discussion about potential ways we could celebrate Steve's
memory
> in the release. AFAIK everyone seemed to think it would be a
good idea
> to have a release dedication similar to the one we did for Adam, as
> long as we're not conflicting with the Release Team's wishes. So in
> conclusion, the question is - how would you feel about
dedicating the
> Ubuntu 24.10 release to Steve Langasek?
>
> Also, like I mentioned, there were a few other ideas for things we
> could do to make the release special in memory of Steve, those ideas
> are mentioned in the Governance Sync meeting notes linked below.
> Opinions on any or all of those would be quite welcome.
>
> Thanks for taking the time to read this!
>
> [1]
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-governance-sync-meeting-notes-14-january-2025/53744
>
> For the Community Council,
>
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> https://launchpad.net/~arraybolt3
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Oh, darn, I forgot to actually link to the time when the Release Team
dedicated the 21.04 release to Adam Conrad. Here's the link to that:
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/hirsute-hippo-release-notes/19221
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