Fedora Desktop vs. Fedora Desktop {GNOME, KDE} (was: Re: Fedora 7)

Josh Boyer jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org
Fri Jan 5 15:27:13 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 10:09 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Friday 05 January 2007 10:01, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > Personally, I'd rather see the current FESCo and Core cabal merged into
> > a single entity that shares both responsibilities.  The Packaging
> > Committee would certainly still exist to come up with the packaging
> > guidelines, so that wouldn't change.  And you immediately get community
> > involvement in the content of the release isos, which is what I think
> > Jessie meant by "hopefully there will be more than just me".  Just my
> > $0.02.
> 
> Keep in mind that it's just adding more people to a committee who may not care 
> about other things such as sponsorship stuff, policy related to packages, 
> various other stuff that FESCO current has to vote on.  Its adding more 
> people, making quorum harder to reach, especially when they might not have 
> any interest/knowledge of whats being voted on.

I said their responsibilities should be merged.  I didn't say they
should necessarily be merged in in their current states.

> Personally I don't like a "commitee" for each little task that needs done.  

Enforcement of policies and release engineering aren't little tasks.
You know that.

> I'm much more a fan of "hey these are the people doing the work, make sure 
> they talk to eachother, and report progress somewhere".  So to that end, I'm 
> going to continue doing work, and reporting progress to places like the 
> Fedora Board, mailing lists, blogs, whatever.

Sure.  Great.  Yet unless you plan on being the benevolent dictator of
the iso releases, you will need to know what you're working towards.
Which includes package selections, etc.  Do you plan on deciding the
content all by yourself?  I doubt it.

josh




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