Kubuntu - Who Makes it Tick?

[Batty]

To save hijacking the thread about Xubuntu project lead standing down, I thought I'd start a new one

It got me thinking how little I know about Kubuntu, even though I've been using it since Dapper!

Who is Kubuntu's project lead?

Is there a list of contributors and what bits they look after?

How many people on this forum do "coding" for Kubuntu.

Look forward to learning who creates this thing we call Kubuntu

Dave

[OneLine]

“Kubuntu Council” team
https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-council

Can vote on important Kubuntu issues.
...
Active members

There are 6 direct members of the "Kubuntu Council" team, and 6 people are members in total, directly and indirectly through other team memberships.

http://apachelog.wordpress.com/2011/...-what-is-this/

The Kubuntu council is the governing board of the Kubuntu community and responsible for steering the Kubuntu products. Therefore its primary responsibilities include evaluation of new Kubuntu members and evaluation of Kubuntu development blueprints (based on recommendations from the Kubuntu developers). It consists of 6 members elected by the community...

“Kubuntu Developers” team
https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-dev

People who can upload Kubuntu packages to the Ubuntu archive
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Active members

There are 14 direct members of the "Kubuntu Developers" team, and 85 people are members in total, directly and indirectly through other team memberships.

Progress towards topic-precise-flavor-kubuntu
http://status.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-prec...r-kubuntu.html

This page shows the progress towards completing a Topic .

and who is working on what.

“Kubuntu Ninjas” team
https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ninjas

Active members

There are 28 direct members of the "Kubuntu Ninjas" team, and 28 people are members in total, directly and indirectly through other team memberships.

https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Kubuntu/Ninjas/

Ninjas are very nice kind of unicorn developers with code monkey abilities.

https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Kubuntu/Ninjas/Packaging/

KDE 4.8.2

Precise

The plan:

Refer to dependency graph, yellow cells are the base packages.
Package original source xz
Bump kde-sc-dev-latest version in Build-Depends
Build it locally, check for build-dependencies, new files to install, .symbol file changes etc
Packaging in bzr
Upload to kubuntu-ninjas with ~ppa1
test
Upload to Precise on release day

“Kubuntu Members” team
https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-members

The Kubuntu Members are the group of Kubuntu contributors. Membership is open to anybody who has made a substantial contribution - of any form - to Kubuntu.
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Active members

There are 55 direct members of the "Kubuntu Members" team, and 55 people are members in total, directly and indirectly through other team memberships.

[Batty]

Thanks for taking the time to reply, I off to do a bit of reading!!

Didn't realize I needed to search the Wiki for Ninjas!

Thanks again

Dave

[woodsmoke]

thank you
woodsmoke

[claydoh]

For a full list of those of us who have contributed over the years, look here:
https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-members/+members#active
"Active" may be a slight misnomer as that list covers most of those who have ever been an official "Kubuntu Member" over the years, as we can keep our status "active" easily.