Become an official Ubuntu spin
It would hugely benefit elementary to become an official Ubuntu spin. It would attract a lot of attention, plus we could fairly easily become the best Ubuntu spin out there.
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I STRONGLY disagree. Becoming an official Ubuntu derivative is going to kill us.
Yes, we'll get free image building and stuff, but man, pushing package updates to Ubuntu repos is a BIG issue. Their review process is slow as hell. Ubuntu Studio is struggling with it, and their status of an official derivative doesn't allow them to use any PPA or third-party-repo packages. Sometimes they end up having a system that's not even useful because they can't push any packages to the main repo (it happened to them during the Natty cycle, for example). So, whatever you do, keep away from official Ubuntu. ~shnatsel
Also, the issues outlined in http://
I'm with shnatsel on this one - eOS should not sacrifice any freedom just for a userbase boost. While that would be good, the goal, as it was said before (was it DanRabbit? I forget) is to develop the best system possible - if a large userbase forms, that is a side-effect of the quality of eOS. In short, quality first. Negatory on the Ubuntu spin question. eOS needs the custom ppas and frankly, you guys are fast as hell developing software, I would never want to see it slow down to a crawl.
--ottorobba
From what I've heard/read this is a huge issue indeed. Although the appeal of it may seem great I think we'd better invest this effort in other methods of aquiring a userbase.
~Felix
Marking as Obsolete since I think this isn't going to happen --DanRabbit
