[Kde-br] email preocupante que recebi do kubuntu-devel

[Filipe Saraiva]

Foi, saiu no Planet KDE mesmo.

Também apareceu por lá a resposta da comunidade, que agora terá que
trabalhar por si se quiser o Kubuntu ainda ativo.
Aqui o post da Lydia fazendo esse chamado ->
http://blog.lydiapintscher.de/2012/02/07/changes-in-kubuntu/

2012/2/7 Anderson Unsonst <andersonunsonst em gmail.com>:
> Today I bring the disappointing news that Canonical will no longer be
> funding my work on Kubuntu after 12.04. Canonical wants to treat
> Kubuntu in the same way as the other community flavors such as
> Edubuntu, Lubuntu, and Xubuntu, and support the projects with
> infrastructure. This is a big challenge to Kubuntu of course and KDE
> as well.
>
> The practical changes are I won't be able to work on KDE bits in my
> work time after 12.04 and there won't be paid support for versions
> after 12.04.  This is a rational business decision, Kubuntu has not
> been a business success after 7 years of trying, and it is unrealistic
> to 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 the
> excellent KDE technology in its best light, and we have a lovely
> community now built around that vision, but it has not taken over the
> world commercially and shows no immediate signs of doing so despite
> awesome successes like the world's largest Linux deployment
> (http://lwn.net/Articles/455972/).
>
> The first question to answer is whether the world needs Kubuntu - a
> regularly released community-friendly distro with a strong KDE focus.
> There is no other major distro out there that matches that description
> but others arguably come close.
>
> If it does then we need people to step up and take the initiative in
> doing the tasks that are often poorly supported by the community
> process.  ISO testing, for example, is a long, slow, thankless task,
> and it is hard to get volunteers for it.  We can look at ways of
> reducing effort from what we do such as scrapping the alternate CD or
> automating KDE SC packaging.
>
> I expect to do other desktop team tasks in my work time such as Qt.  I
> can't do much free software work in my spare time for now because of
> my poor health (slowly recovering I'm pleased to say).
>
> I hope and expect Kubuntu can continue. I encourage Kubuntu devs to
> apply to UDS so we can have discussions on how to continue it and keep
> the dream alive.
>
> Jonathan
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Filipe Saraiva
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