Re: GNOME 2.24 feature

[Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>]

On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 23:35 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 23:26 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 10:50 PM, Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com> wrote:
> > > But the last time I tried, the pushback was very strong from parts of
> > > the world such as India and South America.  Where they had citations
> > > about lack of availability of media and burners, etc.  And as we try to
> > > push the (desktop) live image as the "best" method of getting Fedora,
> > > taking those concerns into account seems pretty valid to me.
> > 
> > *cough* region-localized images *cough*
> 
> So now rather than having one set of images which we build, test,
> mass-produce and send around the world, we have to maintain N.  Which
> adds whole new logistics problems.  Not to mention infrastructure/mirror
> space, lowered torrent efficiency, and other things of that nature.
> 
> So it basically ends up trading off one set of problems for another,
> different one. 
> 

It may still be worthwhile to reevaluate the tradeoffs every once in a
while.