Will Cooke announced his retirement from Canonical and in his place is Martin Wimpress

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Goodbye-cowboy

Few hours ago through a Will Cooke tweet, who led the development of the Ubuntu desktop edition since 2014, announced his retirement from Canonical. Being the latest version of Ubuntu under his command which was recently released last week "Ubuntu 19.10 Eoan Ermine".

And it is that Will Cooke not only do I take the reins of the desktop version of Ubuntu, but I also was involved in the development of Ubuntu Touch and as engineering manager of Ubuntu tv (projects that in the end ended up being abandoned by Canonical).

Will Cooke's work on the desktop version of Ubuntu was quite good and it is that in replies to the Tweet, many appreciate the great effort and work that I carry out in the distribution. In question where it starts, Will's new workplace will be at InfluxData, an open source InfluxDB database engine.

As for the person who will stay in charge as director of systems development for Canonical he is no one else and no one less than Martin Wimpress, who is quite known to the community since he is the co-founder of the Ubuntu MATE edition, included in the MATE Central Team project.

Martin Wimpress is not new to Canonical as he has some background, as he worked in part for Snapcraft.

No more there is nothing left but to wish good luck to Will Cooke inside InfluxData and just thank you for your work on Ubuntu.

While Martin Wimpress not only from us but from almost the entire Ubuntu community, we expect great things for the next LTS version of Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa, version that is scheduled to be released on April 23, 2020 and in which we will be able to work as the new development director.


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  1.   Shupacabra said
    ago 5 years

    Cannonical should abandon the desktop and continue to maintain the solid base for servers and cloud, the jump to gnome seemed horrible to me, that each community continues to maintain its own DE

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  2.   Fernando said
    ago 5 years

    They did a great job with Gnome and its performance improves with updates. I have been using Ubuntu 18.04 as the main distro for more than a year and I am very happy. I am curious about version 20.04, without a doubt I will test it as soon as it is released.

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