+1 to this. Steve did a lot for me. On Feb 3, 2025, at 11:22 AM, Erich Eickmeyer <[email protected]> wrote:
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]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: On Thu, 30 Jan 2025 10:30:19 -0600 Aaron Rainbolt <[email protected]<mailto:[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, > > -- > Aaron Rainbolt > Ubuntu Community Council Member > https://github.com/ArrayBolt3 > https://launchpad.net/~arraybolt3 > @arraybolt3:ubuntu.com<http://ubuntu.com/> on Matrix, arraybolt3 on > irc.libera.chat 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 -- community-council mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/community-council -- Erich Eickmeyer Project Leader - Ubuntu Studio Technical Lead - Edubuntu -- Ubuntu-release mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-release
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