Improving the distribution developer experience was one of the early objectives of Ubuntu, and where it had the least amount of success. It's a pity, because pe

Improving the distribution developer experience was one of the early objectives of Ubuntu, and where it had the least amount of success. It's a pity, because perhaps the only useful thing you could get out of essentially forking Debian (in itself not a great idea, but say you wanted to...) is independence from its technical and social processes. Ubuntu's processes are different, but not wildly improved... primarily because Launchpad was designed from a database schema, not for users. Ubuntu exploited a clear gaping hole in the distro market in 2004. There's still a gap in 2019, but it's a weirder market now than it was back then.