Re: KDE vs. GNOME on F10

[Adam Williamson <awilliam redhat com>]

On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 11:35 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:

> > I definitely see what you're saying, and yeah, perhaps an issue is
> > that
> > we don't have enough of a separate identity for the separate spins. We
> > don't have Kedora and Gedora (or Dedora, if you like ;>), we have
> > Fedora...but still, there's enough updates pushed even in packages in
> > the Desktop spin which wouldn't go through in a more conventionally
> > defined update process (ask yourself if RHEL would ship 'em :>).
> 
> That's not a useful argument.  There is a huge difference between what
> RHEL would ship, and a conservative bugfix update.  RHEL typically
> requires a paying customer contacting support about an issue, escalation
> from there, 3 levels of ACK/NACK decisions, and finally gobs of QA on a
> package before it ever goes out.  Vastly different than what we do in
> Fedora, even for conservative updates.

OK, bad example, but you know what I mean.

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