Ubuntu Flavor Packaging Defaults

Hey, thanks for the communication. It’s nice this was done transparently rather than slipped in.

I’ve got a question which this raises in my mind, and it’s about Ubuntu as a place for distribution makers to try and innovate.

What would you say the project’s position is on Ubuntu flavours as innovators, as ground breakers in trying out new technologies vs. a having a consistent foundational experience across all flavours? Not only in packaging . A theme I noticed - which I’m raising as an example only - at FOSDEM this year was people exploring new ways of booting their Linux systems (UKI, read-only root filesystems, TPM to unlock LUKS). To some extent this is playing in the same space but with a different implementation to Ubuntu Core. Would the Ubuntu project be a place for trying out such innovation or would you recommend folks look elsewhere?

Thanks @kewisch!

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