A few days ago Ubuntu executives announced in one of his well-known "development summary" that developer Bryce Harrington, creator of the popular vector graphics program Inkscape and longtime X.org developer and worked at Canonical for six years as the leader of Ubuntu X.Org. And well now the news is that has returned to Canonical.
Bryce Harrington's return to Canonical and more specifically, to the Ubuntu Server team, won a great member who joins the development team.
And it is that in his stay at work with Inkscape it has been quite fruitful for Bryce Harrington, since he, together with the other developers of the project, promoted a development model, instead of adopting a top-down government scheme, its developers imposed an egalitarian culture where authority came above all from skills and active commitment to the project.
As a result, the project placed a special emphasis on providing full access to its source code repository to all active developers, and on participation in the extensive community.
Bryce Harrington had worked for Canonical for six years before moving to Samsung Research America, where he dealt with the development of the Cairo and Wayland projects there.
After the group restructuring and numerous layoffs, the developer now shifts its focus to other projects.
Continuing on the theme of "bringing them back into the fold," we are proud to announce that Bryce Harrington has rejoined Canonical on the Ubuntu Server team.
In his previous tenure at Canonical, he kept the X.org stack for Ubuntu and helped us get over the old days of "edit your own xorg.org", squashed GPU bugs at Intel, and contributed to the development of Launchpad.
As Canonical writes, Bryce Harrington will handle product portfolio development for Ubuntu Server
"We are excited about your additional expertise that will help spread the word about the myriad of package and software enhancements that make Ubuntu great," they write in Canonical about the return of Bryce Harrington.
Bryce Harrington will help us address the development and maintenance of Ubuntu Server packages.
We are delighted to have your additional expertise to help spread the word about the myriad of software and packaging enhancements that help make Ubuntu a great place. When you are not creating software, you are building things in your woodworking shop.
Welcome (back) Bryce (bryce on Freenode)!
It is said that it will be working on the Ubuntu Server package, but some people keep wondering if it will have something to do with HPC / GPU definitive for Ubuntu Server.
This has been around for a long time in the Linux graphics space area. Only time will tell, but it's certainly a great addition to your Ubuntu Server development team, regardless.
It is also certainly a great opportunity to see new talent on the Ubuntu Server team several months before the start of the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS cycle.
Even Canonical probably has in mind to take advantage of the great experience it has Bryce harrington with Wayland and finally take that leap that you have wanted to achieve so much in several years on implementing this graphic server in Ubuntu.
Or on the other hand, boost your own graphic server "Mir" and resume that idea that died with Unity. For now, we just have to wait for what Canonical has in plans for Ubuntu versions 20.04 LTS and later versions for the system.
Since something that is common at Canonical and that has shown it in these years is to publicize quite innovative ideas (say Ubuntu Touch, the convergence of desktop and mobile phones, among others) is to give several months of good news and in the end letting the project and / or idea die, leaving the people who trusted it adrift.