Proposal

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Ubuntu Cinnamon 22.10

The Ubuntu Cinnamon Remix Team is proposing that the Ubuntu Cinnamon 22.10 release be supported for 10 months as an official Ubuntu flavor release.

Considerations

* Ubuntu Cinnamon 22.10 will be our first release as an official flavor. * Ubuntu Cinnamon 22.10 will be our 7th release, including the 6 as an unofficial flavor including 2 LTS releases as a remix (not as a flavor - 20.04 LTS and 22.04 LTS) * Ubuntu Cinnamon will cover this release for 10 months along with other Ubuntu products. * We have, and will continue to maintain the Cinnamon desktop along with its components (nemo, xapp, etc.) * We have contributed to taking over maintainership of Cinnamon as a whole in Debian (https://salsa.debian.org) * We have a MOTU with us, along with our lead and other Debian Cinnamon Team maintainers who regularly stay connected with upstream Cinnamon development. * We have experience with a good amount of the Cinnamon DE codebase * Lots of extra Cinnamon applications people use that are shipped with Ubuntu Cinnamon are common GNOME packages (gnome-terminal, gnome-calendar, gnome-software, gnome-screenshot) along with other basic GNOME-related packages (xorg) which are maintained by the Ubuntu Desktop Team and Ubuntu developers. * We have been supplying our releases with Stable Release Updates frequently, especially on LTS releases.

Support Plan

Members of the ~ubuntucinnamonremix team on Launchpad (probably to be renamed to ~ubuntucinnamon-dev team after flavor status is reached) will continue to maintain the Ubuntu Cinnamon seed and its components.

  • The primary areas of support will be within the Cinnamon desktop environment suite
  • SRU's will continue to be delivered

  • Security updates and CVEs will be monitored and patched if it affects users (e.g. caribou - https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-3567)

  • Quality Assurance will continue as we have developers and community members who have devices and help in bug squashing
  • The project has its own Telegram, Discord, Twitter, Subreddit, Facebook, and Revolt Chat servers, allowing for many options for community members to report bugs and get together.
  • Future uploads: Joshua Peisach will continue seed development and bug squashing. Nemo updates can be done with David Mohammed (fossfreedom) as Ubuntu Budgie uses the Nemo file manager too, and other updates can be done with Ubuntu Developers and the Ubuntu Desktop Team. Erich Eickmeyer will assist in uploading Ubuntu Cinnamon-related packages to Universe.
  • In the future, we plan to have direct upload access to more of the Cinnamon desktop in the future and work with the DMB to allow more people in the team to have upload access.

Release Schedule and Management

The Ubuntu Cinnamon team will continue to follow the Ubuntu release schedule and release Point Releases when necessary. We will also get in touch with the QA team to add a tracker/testcases on iso.qa.ubuntu.com.

List of Proposed Packages/Applications

Cinnamon desktop components

  • cinnamon (Deb/Ubuntu)
  • cinnamon-control-center (Deb/Ubuntu)
  • cinnamon-desktop (Deb/Ubuntu)
  • cinnamon-desktop-environment (Deb/Ubuntu)
  • cinnamon-menus (Deb/Ubuntu)
  • cinnamon-screensaver (Deb/Ubuntu)
  • cinnamon-session (Deb/Ubuntu)
  • cinnamon-settings-daemon (Deb/Ubuntu)
  • cinnamon-translations (Deb/Ubuntu)
  • cjs (Deb/Ubuntu)
  • iso-flags-svg (Deb/Ubuntu)
  • libtimezonemap (Deb/Ubuntu)
  • muffin (Deb/Ubuntu)
  • nemo (Deb/Ubuntu)
  • nemo-fileroller (Deb/Ubuntu)
  • nemo-python (Deb/Ubuntu)
  • python-xapp (Deb/Ubuntu)
  • xapp (Deb/Ubuntu)

Packages specific to Ubuntu Cinnamon

  • ubuntucinnamon-artwork
  • ubuntucinnamon-environment
  • ubuntucinnamon-meta
  • ubuntucinnamon-wallpapers