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Anyone can hold any status in Ubuntu regardless of who they work for. This is explicitly stated in Ubuntu's code of conduct which doubles as a sort of constitut
by rlpb 8y ago
Anyone can hold any status in Ubuntu regardless of who they work for. This is explicitly stated in Ubuntu's code of conduct which doubles as a sort of constitution. They could be Ubuntu developers themselves; then they wouldn't have to "wait on a third party" to resolve anything.
- gizmo686 8y agoThey could contribute, but still have to go through the process to push any changes. This is the same reason that Ubuntu maintains a fork of Linux.
- jononor 8y agoYes but anything that goes into Ubuntu needs to work on all systems, not just System 76 devices. This would like reduce the realistic rate of change, even if they were (co-)maintainers of all the relevant packages.
- tbiteteitb 8y agoNot necessary to upstream packages to Ubuntu Repositories when they could set their own repositories (which I assume it's how they mantain their distro) It's a matter of branding. Which is great too as long as they keep up to date with security updates and such.
- jononor 8y agoI don't think Canonical would look kindly on someone shipping 'Ubuntu' with 3rd-party modifications to critical system-level packages, at least without participating in the Ubuntu Desktop certification program.