Canonical pulls the plug on Kubuntu [LWN.net]

Canonical pulls the plug on Kubuntu

Posted Feb 7, 2012 2:17 UTC (Tue) by dlang (guest, #313)
Parent article: Canonical pulls funding from Kubuntu

this makes it sound like kubuntu has been an one-man show.

how many people have been working on this?

as a kubuntu user, it's always felt like a second-class project, very close to how the other 'community flavors' have felt.

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Posted Feb 7, 2012 2:29 UTC (Tue) by maco (guest, #53641) [Link] (4 responses)

Jonathan has always been the only Kubuntu developer who was paid by Canonical. The rest of the Kubuntu development team are community people.

Posted Feb 7, 2012 2:51 UTC (Tue) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link] (3 responses)

how many other people are working on the kubuntu team?

Posted Feb 7, 2012 3:36 UTC (Tue) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link] (2 responses)

the reason I'm asking is that I'm trying to get a feel of how much this will impact the available manpower. Was Jonathan 10% of the manpower or 50%.

His time will be missed, but is this a "ouch, let's move on" or a death blow?

Posted Feb 7, 2012 4:03 UTC (Tue) by sladen (guest, #27402) [Link]

Last year Jonathan Riddell was on rotation to the Bazaar DVCS team and so a similar situation arose for a six-month period during mid-2011 aswell:

Jonathan Riddell (2011-04-20). "On rotation" (kubuntu-devel email).
Jonathan Riddell (2011-04-21). "Natty Narwhal Nearly Here, On Rotation" (blogs.kde.org post).

Kubuntu 11.10 somehow survived that release too!

Posted Feb 7, 2012 14:59 UTC (Tue) by maco (guest, #53641) [Link]

Depending on final exams schedules, I'd estimate 8-12 people work on Kubuntu.