Re: PROPOSAL: Core size reduction "bug day"

[Warren Togami <wtogami redhat com>]

Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-07-24 at 02:28 +0200, David Nielsen wrote:
>
> > As everyone probably knows a few days ago a suggestion was brought up
> > that we start moving none essential stuff like KDE, XFce and a lot of
> > the other duplication into Extras in order to reduce the size of Core.
> >
> > I'm hereby proposing we hold a bug day on IRC, Saturday the 31th to
> > debate the possibility of such an action and which programs to move in
> > that is the case.
> >
> > So far people have express a desire to move:
> > KDE
>
>
> I still think that moving KDE away from core is a Bad Idea. I have
> always preferred KDE over GNOME, as many other people do.

Know that there may also be benefits to moving KDE to Extras.
* Red Hat does not emphasize enigneering work on KDE.  Most of the RH 
desktop team works mainly on GNOME.
* As a result our KDE is always not as good as it could be.
* Community members care about KDE.
* Thus community members would do a better job of providing a more 
polished KDE experience in Fedora.

However even entertaining this idea, we have several large challenges:
* Currently we have no way of pulling in Extras into the installer. 
This would probably be an absolute requirement before this could happen.
* The Extras KDE maintainer(s) would need to be at both a very high 
technical and trust level to make sure it does not stray on the whims of 
50 less experienced people who will undoubtedly submit less than ideal 
changes.
* Changes to KDE must be done without compromising the Fedora/RH way of 
doing things.  This would mean tight communication/collaboration with 
the RH desktop team.

Warren Togami
wtogami redhat com