#ISupportJonathan

[SteveRiley]

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ub...ne/000646.html

After much public controversy, the Ubuntu Community Council and Kubuntu
Council have met with Mark Shuttleworth and Jonathan Riddell to chart a
path forward. Jonathan Riddell has removed his membership in
~kubuntu-council as the Community Council required, and the Fridge post
has been removed as the Kubuntu Council requested. Provisions are being
made to better handle cases where there is a potential conflict of
interest for a member of the CC.

We have mutually agreed that KDE is important to Ubuntu, and the Kubuntu
Council believes that Ubuntu is important to the KDE community as well.
Therefore we have a basis to work together on putting out a lovely Wily
release. We recognize that there are honest and strong feelings about
both the things that led up to the current controversy and the way that
resolution of it was handled. Despite that, we would all like to move
forward as best we can for the betterment of the Ubuntu project,
including Kubuntu.

The Kubuntu Council is pleased to see that process improvements have
been made that will make issues like this easier to solve in the future
should they recur and looks forward to a great Wily (15.10) release. The
Community Council is likewise pleased be working with the Kubuntu
Council to ensure that a KDE flavor of Ubuntu continues to be well
supported by the community and Canonical.

Regards
Laura Czajkowski - Ubuntu Community Council

[kubicle]

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ub...ne/000646.html

"Empty statements, hollow words" in my eyes.

That is actually the first time in the whole incident that the kubuntu council lost some respect in my eyes (for caving in). Ubuntu council lost the little it had left and Shuttleworth had none to be lost. Riddell seems to have taken the high road, and I'll give him props for that.

[SecretCode]

Not much other analysis of this that I can find yet.

(When did softpedia become a place to find news?) Jonathan Riddell Resigns from Kubuntu Community Council - Softpedia

The situation seems to have been resolved for now, although the problems that have led to all the discussions are still opened for debate.

Some provisions have been put in place so that this sort of thing won't happen again. Such disagreements and the lack of mechanisms that can solve these problems will only weaken the projects. In any case, Jonathan Riddell will continue in his role of Kubuntu developer, so things are not that dire.

With a comment from Jonathan:

It's a sad day when the CC is more interested in my membership of a Launchpad team than in following the decision of the Kubuntu Membership or ensuring the team has the desire to continue. Today's Alpha 1 announcement says "The Kubuntu team are committed to releasing 15.10 in October. Updates, bug fixes and future releases are currently uncertain. " Having said that we have just voted on a new Kubuntu member so I guess this hasn't destroyed team morale completely.

[MoonRise]

"Empty statements, hollow words" in my eyes.

That is actually the first time in the whole incident that the kubuntu council lost some respect in my eyes (for caving in). Ubuntu council lost the little it had left and Shuttleworth had none to be lost. Riddell seems to have taken the high road, and I'll give him props for that.

Agreed

[GreyGeek]

It takes time to transition projects to other maintainers.

Apparently he is not letting any moss grow under his fingers.

https://skitterman.wordpress.com/

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This was my first month as a Freexian sponsored LTS contributor. I was assigned 4 hours which was enough for me to update clamav to the current upstream version, 0.98.7. This resolves a stack of CVEs and enables LTS users to take advantage of the latest anti-virus signatures and features clamav offers. This is consistent with the way clamav is updated for Debian supported releases through proposed-updates. This is covered under DLA 233-1.

[Goddard]

Very cool project.