Comment 40 for bug 1172422

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Jono Bacon (jonobacon) wrote :

@Adam Canonical is doing the right thing; as has already been clarified, the issue is being resolved, and members of the Web, Community, Design, and QA teams have all responded. This is a huge multi-team design and engineering project to deliver our web presence - adding a 'Community' link is not as simple as editing a source file. Our website used to be hacky back in the early days, but every decision now goes through design and engineering to stop it being hacky and instead provide a high quality experience.

I agree that the way this turned out was sub-optimal, but I also feel that Canonical have been very responsive in responding: there is an agreement from *everyone* that the link needs to return, an assurance it is coming back, and there is already significant Canonical investment from my team to make a *better* set of community pages.

This is not the case that Canonical doesn't care about the community and wants to demote the community; do you really think I would be happy with that? I assure you I would raise holy hell if I felt the community was being demoted by Canonical.

Our goal, and the goal with the new community website to provide a significantly better set of community documentation and on-ramps for folks who go to ubuntu.com and want to participate.

I assure you, our hearts are in the right place, and ultimately we will end up with a better solution for community members. We will discuss this more at UDS this week - be sure to join us.