Emeritus Universal Blue Hey @uBlue Members , I formally request to be moved to Emeritus status

Emeritus Universal Blue

Hey @uBlue Members ,

I formally request to be moved to Emeritus status in the Universal Blue organization.

I feel that my contributions to Universal Blue would be better served by focusing my energy completely on Bazzite since it is the project I am most passionate about and what brought me here in the first place.

Here are my primary reasons for making this decision:

The ISO work I was originally doing has evolved and has a very bright future ahead. I have not been super involved in the tech side of it for quite a while. It has grown beyond my current skill set.
Universal Blue has a stronger focus on downstream experiences and I would like to have a stronger focus on Bazzite when I contribute
Between family, obligations upstream (the Fedora Podcast), Universal Blue, and my health, I need to take some time to assess how I can contribute in the most effective way possible
Because of #3, my current contributions to the project have significantly slowed down. I think relieving some pressure will make me feel better about contributing again

What does this look like?

Remove me from admin of the Universal Blue Discord
Remove me from the Universal Blue organization in GitHub
Move me to the Bazzite Contributor role (I don't think what I currently contribute lends to a maintainer role, I'll let Kyle make a decision he feels is appropriate)
Provide access to the Bazzite Repo so I can still provide contributions there
Move myself to Emeritus on any Universal Blue socials or websites

What I wouldn't want to see change:

Conference talks or other presentation-like activities for Bazzite
Helping out upstream in Fedora
Participate in discussions about Universal Blue when it affects Bazzite
Opening issues related to Bazzite in relevant Ublue repositories where it makes sense
Help provide support for Bazzite or general Linux inquiries in Discord when needed

If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to DM me.

Thanks,

Noel

j0rge•4/27/25, 10:52 PM

This saves us a few bucks, sec:

j0rge•4/27/25, 10:52 PM

https://github.com/ublue-os/main/blob/main/emeritus.md

GitHub

main/emeritus.md at main · ublue-os/main

OCI base images of Fedora with batteries included. Contribute to ublue-os/main development by creating an account on GitHub.

j0rge•4/27/25, 10:52 PM

LOL look at the top message

j0rge•4/27/25, 10:52 PM

onbrand

NNoel **Emeritus Universal Blue** Hey @uBlue Members , I formally request to be move...

j0rge•4/27/25, 10:54 PM

SGTM, this is a github permissions thing more than a title thing in the project

Jj0rge SGTM, this is a github permissions thing more than a title thing in the project

NoelOP•4/27/25, 10:55 PM

For sure. Based on how much I've contributed this year to Ublue, it makes sense. It's been on my mind and I think it's the right time.

j0rge•4/27/25, 10:56 PM

nod

j0rge•4/27/25, 10:56 PM

it's just a github perm anyway

j0rge•4/27/25, 10:56 PM

you're saving us 11 bucks a month tho lol

j0rge•4/27/25, 10:57 PM

I watched your first episode with noah

Jj0rge you're saving us 11 bucks a month tho lol

tulip•4/27/25, 10:57 PM

oh wow i didnt know it costed that

j0rge•4/27/25, 10:57 PM

that show looks like it will be fun to do

Jj0rge that show looks like it will be fun to do

NoelOP•4/27/25, 10:57 PM

Absolutely! Noah is awesome to work with.

j0rge•4/27/25, 10:59 PM

ok I'm taking in 128 a month for donations to myself

j0rge•4/27/25, 10:59 PM

the bill is 60 bucks a month for github

j0rge•4/27/25, 10:59 PM

if we had to pay for github

j0rge•4/27/25, 11:00 PM

j0rge•4/27/25, 11:00 PM

that's our runner bill

j0rge•4/27/25, 11:00 PM

if we had one

j0rge•4/27/25, 11:00 PM

j0rge•4/27/25, 11:00 PM

j0rge•4/27/25, 11:01 PM

j0rge•4/27/25, 11:01 PM

aurorafin is likely because of those hwe images

j0rge•4/27/25, 11:01 PM

we need to get rid of those

j0rge•4/27/25, 11:01 PM

(I know we're not paying but still that's grossly inefficient compared to bazzite)

NoelOP•4/27/25, 11:03 PM

@j0rge I'll make the PR to the file you linked. I'm not sure I can demote myself on Discord.

NoelOP•4/27/25, 11:03 PM

I figure you can handle the GitHub perms.

j0rge•4/27/25, 11:03 PM

I don't consider the discord roles attached to the project governance

j0rge•4/27/25, 11:03 PM

that's up 2 u

j0rge•4/27/25, 11:05 PM

oh the dollar amount one with the repos is year to date, not monthly

NoelOP•4/27/25, 11:06 PM

I cannot believe how much GitHub gives us for what we pay lol

tulip•4/27/25, 11:06 PM

yeah LOL

j0rge•4/27/25, 11:07 PM

@M2 speaking of saving some dollar bills, ok to archive hwe repo now that nvidia is building out of main?

M2•4/27/25, 11:07 PM

Yes!

j0rge•4/27/25, 11:07 PM

do you want to do the honors, or me?

M2•4/27/25, 11:07 PM

all you. About to put kids to bed

j0rge•4/27/25, 11:10 PM

done.

j0rge•4/27/25, 11:24 PM

that's some awesome cleanup in main m2!

M2•4/27/25, 11:26 PM

I'm still miffed about SBOMs right now....

j0rge•4/27/25, 11:27 PM

I'll sync up with popey

M2•4/27/25, 11:38 PM

Basically I keep running out of memory on these larger images.

Even with 85 GB of swap it can still die..... Meanwhile on my desktop (albeit with 128 GB of ram) it can burn through it in a minute or two

tryhardsoccermomswag•4/28/25, 1:39 AM

i know kyle, antheas, and rj go through this source code all the time for bazzite, but this really makes the whole OCI paradigm a lot more likable:
https://gitlab.com/evlaV/holo-PKGBUILD
this is a mess

GitLab

evlaV / holo-PKGBUILD · GitLab

SteamOS 3.x source code public mirror.

Sourced from Valve's latest official (main) source packages.

tryhardsoccermomswag•4/28/25, 1:40 AM

almost makes you realize how much work you have to do when you're making a linux distro

j0rge•4/28/25, 1:41 AM

tulip and I got offline docs going

j0rge•4/28/25, 1:41 AM

j0rge•4/28/25, 1:41 AM

they look freaking spectacular

tryhardsoccermomswag•4/28/25, 1:41 AM

oh that's awesome

tryhardsoccermomswag•4/28/25, 1:42 AM

you kind of made bkeletelsen's gnome document viewer prototype a reality but without all the weird mallard markup language gnome yelp stuff

j0rge•4/28/25, 1:42 AM

we're ditching yelp it's busted upstream and a security vuln

j0rge•4/28/25, 1:42 AM

and the gnome docs are so old it doesn't matter

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