Em 21 de set de 2018 13:55, "Erich Eickmeyer" <[email protected]> escreveu:
> Hi everybody, > > As many of you know, Eylul stepped-down from the core leadership of > Ubuntu Studio on Saturday. With Eylul's departure, we lost one of our > key developers. She had planned on stepping-down, so this was not > completely unforseen, and she isn't the only one who wishes to depart. > He can correct me if I'm wrong, but it's my understanding that Len was > looking at stepping-down when the timing was right as well. This has me > rethinking some of the ideas we've had with the less-than handful of > people we have working on this project. > > When Ubuntu Studio was born, it started as an add-on to the existing > GNOME-based Ubuntu install. Those that were there can correct me if I'm > wrong, but as I understand it, the first ISO came about with Xfce as the > desktop when Ubuntu went to Unity. With Unity no longer a major factor, > I asked the team to explore other desktops, and, with Len's > recommendation, Plasma was chosen as a viable alternative to Xfce. > > Unfortunately, getting an ISO spun-up with Plasma as the desktop has > proven to be more of a pain than previously thought because we'd > essentially be creating a new "flavor" of Ubuntu which has to go through > all of the steps necessary to make that happen. With our dwindling > numbers and lack of time to dedicate to a project that got too tedious, > I recommend we abandon this project. > > Also, creating Ubuntu Studio Welcome and the boutique to replace > -installer have proved to be nearly impossible without help that I > simply don't have. > > Another frustration is that it is nearly impossible to get packages > updated, and if they're synced from Debian it is even more difficult. > For example, I worked on and got the new version of Calf (0.90.0 which > has been out since November with a point release to 0.90.1 in July) > updated, and since it gets pulled-in from Debian, I had to go to the > Debian Multimedia Team to get it updated, only to find that there was > someone already working on it without the point release (0.90.0), but it > hadn't yet made its way into Debian Testing or Unstable. The upstream > developers had released it in November and it's STILL not in Debian > Testing or Unstable. It shouldn't take 10 months to update a major > release of a project. Fedora doesn't have this problem because they > don't have an upstream project from which to pull as they ARE the > upstream, and already have the 0.90.1 package! Updating a project > shouldn't have so many hoops through which to jump! > > The biggest roadblock we have is the lack of active MOTUs on the team. I > would apply, but I don't feel as though I'm qualified since I've had > nobody to mentor me in package development. Additionally, we've been > unable to attract any dedicated MOTUs. > > If Ubuntu Studio is to survive, I believe it might be time for another > approach which would bring Ubuntu Studio closer to its roots. My > proposal is to keep Ubuntu Studio's ISO as Xfce, but to develop > metapackages that bolt Ubuntu Studio on to an existing install of > another flavor. There are a couple of different approaches to this: 1) > the metapackage pulls-in the required configureation files to simply add > some essential configuration such as the lowlatency kernel selection in > GRUB, or , or 2) pull-in said configuration and rebrand the install to > Ubuntu Studio. The other day, I took an afternoon and packaged something > to demonstrate the #2 option above on a default Ubuntu (GNOME) install > and it worked perfectly. This would require at least one MOTU to be > dedicated to this project. > > There is yet another option, one that I don't like, but it was proposed > from outside this mailing list when I first got involved. Perhaps Ubuntu > Studio, as a downloadable flavor, has run its course. We're no longer in > a world where people have to download whole ISOs to get the software > they need quickly since it's all available in the repos and most people > have a high-speed connection. This world no longer requires that every > single piece of software be included in an ISO. Additionally, community > support is dwindling, and Ubuntu Studio has gone from the premiere > multimedia distribution to the one people are staying away from, with > referrals to what are now arguably more successful projects for audio > (KXStudio and AVLinux). Perhaps it's time to sunset the flavor. > > I'd appreciate your thoughts. Overall, I understand now why there has > been so much burn-out in the Ubuntu Studio development community. > > > Erich > > > -- > ubuntu-studio-devel mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/ > mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel > >
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