Post Syndicated from Lennart Poettering original https://0pointer.net/blog/projects/sound-theme-canonical.html

#ignore yes

Today I came
across this blog post of your design team. In context of the recent
criticism you had to endure regarding upstream contributions I am disappointed
that you have not bothered to ping anybody from the upstream freedesktop sound
theme (for example yours truly) about this in advance. No, you went to cook
your own soup. What really disappoints me is that we have asked multiple times
for help and support and contributions for the sound theme, to only very little
success, and I even asked some of the Canonical engineers about this topic and
in particular regarding some clarifications of the licensing of the old Ubuntu
sound theme. I am sorry, but if you had listened, or looked, or asked you would
have been aware that we were looking for somebody to maintain this actively,
upstream — and because we didn’t have the time to maintain this we only
did the absolute minimum work necessary and we only maintain this ourselves
because noone else wanted to.

It should be upstream first, downstream second.

I am sorry if I sound like an always complaining prick to you. But believe
me, I am not saying this because I wouldn’t like you or anything like that.
I am just saying this because I believe you could do things
oh so much better.

Please fix this. We want your contributions. Upstream.