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Launchpad entry: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/derivativeteam
Packages affected:
This Specification supersedes DerivativePolicy and UbuntuDownUnder/BOFs/UbuntuDerivatives
Summary
Gather, document, and implement best practices for creating and maintaining distributions that are derived from Ubuntu, by extending and enhancing wiki.ubuntu.com/DerivativeTeam
Rationale
Currently there are no established best practices for creating and maintaining derivative distributions. Need to make sure organizations and individuals who want to create Ubuntu derivatives can do so easily and efficiently with minimal disruption to anyone else.
Use cases
The Brazilian Loco team is interested in creating a localized Ubuntu distribution.
The University of Wisconsin Physics Department is interested in creating a customised Ubuntu distribution that includes a number of additional scientific packages.
The city of Paris library system is interested in creating a card catalog kiosk that is locked down and includes a subset of Ubuntu packages.
Nokia is interested in creating a distribution that will run on phones.
Software-2010 is interested in creating a consumer friendly distribution that will help transition users to Linux based system. Software-2010 will heavily customize individual Ubuntu packages and provide additional open source and proprietary packages.
AndalusÃa Regional Government (Junta de Andalucia) develops Guadalinex -thoroughly customizing Ubuntu- for deployment to official projects, education, and citizens.
Scope
This includes:
- Establishing policies for legal issues.
- Establishing policies, standards, and implementations for customizing branding.
- Establishing policies, standards, and implementations for customizing artwork.
- Establishing policies, standards, and implementations for customizing language packages.
- Establishing policies, standards, and implementations for customization package sets.
- Implementing tools to create derived distributions.
- Establishing policies, standards, and implementations for handling issue and crash reports from derived distributions.
- Establishing policies, standards, and implementations for source code management.
- Governance and conduct.
Design
We discovered that there is a large amount of information on creating derivative distributions spread around the Ubuntu derivative ecosystem. This information can be best shared by creating a team that encourages derivative distributions to work together and with the Ubuntu community.
Implementation
The Derivative Specification is best implemented by a number of sub specifications.
Unresolved issues