Thank you, it is a mature and professional reaction, very respectful of the user community. It is a good counterweight to unexpected and feverish departures.

This can actually be a good thing if done well.
Joshua&Budgie team can focus on Budgie while Solus can focus on what makes Solus Solus.

I see this as Budgie is not just Solus anymore and Solus is not just Budgie, both brojects have grown up and validated their own existence in their own rights/fields separately not just together.

Iā€™m confident both of the teams can make this work, excited to see where this goes in the future!

    PreyK Budgie is not just Solus anymore and Solus is not just Budgie

    Well put. After getting over the shock of Josh's abrupt departure, I'm beginning to see the bright side, too. In fact, much as I loved Budgie, I don't even use it anymore, but I don't think I'll ever stop using Solus while I'm still able to type on a keyboard.

      @DataDrake

      I admire the professionalism in the way you're taking up these big responsibilities. As a Solus user for years I have no doubt whatsoever that this wonderful OS will continue to be the best. Thank you!

      PreyK I'm confident, too. Beatrice's point #4 confirms this and it was absolutely necessary to separate these entities neatly and fairly.

        I think this is a very important thread and I propose to make it a thread for suggestions

        My suggestion is that a playlist on how to become a solus maintainer appears on the solus channel on YouTube or any other video hosting site. This will render the 3 sections of the Solus help center and will attract a large (if not a huge number of people)

        best regards, Georgii, a.k.a DrSheppard

          Good stuff. Sounds like a plan. Looking forward to continuing to use Solus in 2022. Cheers for all the hard work šŸ™‚.

          George it would be nice to see more information somewhere on how to get more involved with package maintaining. The forums and other users were a great help to me.

              George [A]lso, at such a difficult moment, I invite all concerned members of the community to support solus

              Financial contributions keep the lights on, so to speak, paying for servers and other expenses of the project. The expenses are not trivial -- just under $14,000 USD per year. Last year contributions appear to have covered expenses, and we need to do that again this year, and going forward.

                  tomscharbach this is great, but donates are a great way to support the developer and motivate him to do more. It is also a source of development

                      Solus shall remain...
                      A ship cannot be navigated by a lonely man, It is needed a crew to fully operate it, and if the crew is still up for the task, a loss of one man will not make it wreck.

                      I'll give sum of my rum to this crew.

                      George

                      George [T]his is great, but donates are a great way to support the developer and motivate him to do more. It is also a source of development.

                      That's true. At this point, however, contributions are barely keeping up with expenses, and meet those expenses we must.

                      I think that we would both like to see the day when contributions will be sufficient to compensate team members. Right now, though, it seems to me that we need to make sure we keep the lights on. That was the reason for my focus.

                      I am grateful to the hundreds of community members who are helping keep Solus alive by making financial contributions, particularly those community members (Backers, Release Testers, Beta Testers, Crew) who make recurring monthly contributions. I'm hoping that your posts and mine might motivate others to join the effort.

                      Joining the team of financial contributors would be a good way to help the Solus Project at this transition point and demonstrate how important this project is to all of us.

                          New to Solus here, I'm in love with this distro and I feel I have reached my last stop on this hopping journey. I initially had some anxiety about the departure of major team members but all the information given to the community has been so clear and concise that I feel confident in your abilities to make this distro better!

                            OrbitalWLF New to Solus here, I'm in love with this distro and I feel I have reached my last stop on this hopping journey.

                            Thanks for posting. I think that many of us feel the same way about Solus. I used for Ubuntu between 2006-2017, became increasingly unhappy with the direction Canonical was taking, switched to Solus Budgie in 2017 and haven't looked back.

                            I had the opportunity to look at about a half dozen distros (Ubuntu, Ubuntu Budgie, openSUSE, Gecko, Debian, Mint, MXLinux) using Gnome Boxes over the last few weeks and what I found reinforced my feeling that Solus is head and shoulders above the others for home computer users who want a stable, rolling release distribution without cruft, bloat or complication. I've been running Solus OS on this computer for about 4 years now, stable as a rock.

                            OrbitalWLF I initially had some anxiety about the departure of major team members but all the information given to the community has been so clear and concise that I feel confident in your abilities to make this distro better!

                            I did, too, because I've seen Solus OS and the Budgie DE as a perfect combination and worried about what might happen if the two weren't developed in tandem. But after a few days' reflection, and reading Beatrice's post, I'm confident that it will work out. As Beatrice pointed out in her initial post in this thread, it might be a bumpy ride for a few weeks until the reorganized Solus team settles in and the Budgie handoff is completed. But once that happens, separating out Solus OS and the Budgie DE into two projects will work.

                                  tomscharbach (Ubuntu, Ubuntu Budgie, openSUSE, Gecko, Debian, Mint, MXLinux) using Gnome Boxes

                                  I've got mine finally trimmed down to Solus Mate (for testing packages I build), Garuda LXQt, openSUSE, and KDE Neon šŸ˜….

                                  tomscharbach what I found reinforced my feeling that Solus is head and shoulders above the others

                                  Same thing for me, but I still like to play around. I'd be highly interested in an LXQt version of Solus, but I don't have the technical know-how to pull that off. Besides, all the others are so efficient (scratch Gnome) that LXQt doesn't bring much to the table except a Qt based lightweight DE.

                                      Well, this is news. I looked around for some additional information, but I didn't really see it. I hope there was nothing unpleasant regarding the fracturing of the team. I also hope that things going forward will continue to be as pleasant for the users as they have been in the past.

                                      Best of luck to everyone.