Friday 4 October 2024

Re: [Technical Board] Feedback requested: draft policy on third party software sources included by Ubuntu



On Fri, Oct 4, 2024, 18:10 Robie Basak <robie.basak@ubuntu.com> wrote:
On Tue, Aug 27, 2024 at 04:35:45PM +0100, Robie Basak wrote:
> Since there's no further feedback, I'll ask the Technical Board to make
> the draft policy above final at their (our) next meeting, which is later
> today at 1900 UTC. See the agenda[1] for details (which I'll update
> shortly).

FTR, the TB ratified this draft as policy[1].

This is now documented as policy here:
https://canonical-ubuntu-governance-docs.readthedocs-hosted.com/en/latest/policy/3rd-party-software-sources/

This is a new Sphinx-based repository for this kind of documentation.
There's only this one document there now, but unless there are better
ideas, we now have a place for this kind of thing in the future.

Robie

[1] https://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2024/08/27/%23ubuntu-meeting.html#t19:09

Hello Robie and the Technical board,

First of all the documentation looks neat and detail .

I have a small question, regarding default apps being enabled or snaps being installed by default as they are dfsg-free

/me putting on my user hat now than a developer :)

On the other hand, will an user have choices on what to install by default on his system whether it might be apps or drivers as sometimes as an user an alternative to a driver or an app would work fine for me.

Or will the installer and software center choose the best ones to enable and install as per the system environment?

Regards,
Bhavi