Kubuntu Status Jonathan Riddell [email=kubuntu-devel%40lists.ubuntu.com?Subject=Re%3A%20Kubuntu%20Status&In-Reply-To=%3C20120206232725.GY5821%40starsky.19inch.net%3E]jriddell at ubuntu.com[/email]
Mon Feb 6 23:27:25 UTC 2012 Today I bring the disappointing news that Canonical will no longer befunding my work on Kubuntu after 12.04. Canonical wants to treatKubuntu in the same way as the other community flavors such asEdubuntu, Lubuntu, and Xubuntu, and support the projects withinfrastructure. This is a big challenge to Kubuntu of course and KDEas well.The practical changes are I won't be able to work on KDE bits in mywork time after 12.04 and there won't be paid support for versionsafter 12.04. This is a rational business decision, Kubuntu has notbeen a business success after 7 years of trying, and it is unrealisticto expect it to continue to have financial resources put into it.I have been trying for the last 7 years to create a distro to show theexcellent KDE technology in its best light, and we have a lovelycommunity now built around that vision, but it has not taken over theworld commercially and shows no immediate signs of doing so despiteawesome successes like the world's largest Linux deployment(http://lwn.net/Articles/455972/).The first question to answer is whether the world needs Kubuntu - aregularly released community-friendly distro with a strong KDE focus.There is no other major distro out there that matches that descriptionbut others arguably come close.If it does then we need people to step up and take the initiative indoing the tasks that are often poorly supported by the communityprocess. ISO testing, for example, is a long, slow, thankless task,and it is hard to get volunteers for it. We can look at ways ofreducing effort from what we do such as scrapping the alternate CD orautomating KDE SC packaging.I expect to do other desktop team tasks in my work time such as Qt. Ican't do much free software work in my spare time for now because ofmy poor health (slowly recovering I'm pleased to say).I hope and expect Kubuntu can continue. I encourage Kubuntu devs toapply to UDS so we can have discussions on how to continue it and keepthe dream alive.Jonathan
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[imghttp://www.osnews.com/images/gstaroff.gif[/img] Canonical Ceases Funding of Kubuntu Development
posted by Thom Holwerda on Tue 7th Feb 2012 09:58 UTC, submitted by gogothebee
This shouldn't come as a huge surprise. Jonathan Riddell, lead developer of the Kubuntu project and the only person paid by Canonical to work on the KDE variant of the popular distribution, has announced that after the 12.04 release, Canonical will no longer be funding him, effectively putting Kubuntu on the same level as other Ubuntu variants like Xubuntu.
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