Flavor Sync Meeting Notes - September 11, 2023

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@ilvipero

• • Tim Holmes-Mitra (@tim-hm) mentioned that the Desktop team posts development updates every 2 weeks on the Ubuntu discourse. Oliver Smith (@local-optimum) confirmed that the Ubuntu discourse is the place to get updates on everything Ubuntu. Tim and Oliver also mentioned that they are happy to further improve communications between the desktop team and flavors.

It’s unfortunate that despite this, inquiries posed on Discourse go unanswered:

Ubuntu Flavor Sync Meeting Notes - May 8, 2023

@kenvandine and @jbicha I’ve yet to see any sort of follow up with this, but it seems like it’s not only been implemented, but does require a config file. The Lubuntu installer requests a password to run the installer and this is solved by installing the old polkitd-pkla package. That said, I’d love to hear more on this migration plan, especially as it relates to flavors like Lubuntu.

I think the issue @eeickmeyer brings up is communication often seems one directional and often incomplete.