Yes that’s the title. Ubuntu gave me too many jokes yesterday.

1. Scott Lavender’s annoucement of resigning as Ubuntu Studio’s Project Lead

This is the first joke which turned out to be a non-joke. I was heartbroken.

I joined the Ubuntu Studio Team in August 2012, as an interested QA tester. At that time, it was Scott who contacted and welcomed me first. He was indeed a marvellous leader, pushing Ubuntu Studio on the conversion of the default desktop environment to Xfce and developing the initial idea of workflows.

Scott has been rather inactive in the 13.04 cycle due to his work, and he announced his resignation yesterday.

I was surprised since I was expecting the discussion of this matter in the 13.10 cycle, not the real thing on April Fools Day.X-(

Anyway, I would like to thank Scott and wish him every success in future development.

And now, the Ubuntu Studio Team enters “the zequence Era”!!!! (LOL). Scott has appointed Kaj Ailomaa (zequence) as the Ubuntu Studio Team’s new Project Lead. He has been working very extensively in the 12.10 & 13.04 cycle, writing documentation, doing SRUs, finding contributors, and much more. I do hope that every Ubuntu Studio Team member and user would support him as much as I do.

2. Oliver Grawart’s announcement about developers needing to pay money to upload packages and draft blueprints

This is so ridiculous that I really think this IS an April Fools Day joke. I mean, I need to PAY to upload packages and draft blueprints? Why? This clearly violates freedom of software packaging and makes people more unwilling to contribute to Ubuntu.

If this is the real thing, I either need somebody to sponsor me for this, or I just simply can’t contribute.

Please, Canonical and Ubuntu, stop going making Ubuntu a full commercial product.

So these jokes hit me yesterday and I don’t want anymore.

smartboyhw away from home in Hangzhou, China

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