FESCo Meeting Summary for 20090424

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Wed Apr 29 17:50:28 UTC 2009


On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 12:10 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 08:23 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 12:13 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > > I must say that, while I do believe users need to have access to the sound
> > > card controls exposed by ALSA, the precedent this decision sets worries me.
> > > It should ultimately be the GNOME Desktop Team's decision to decide what
> > > goes onto the GNOME spin. I definitely wouldn't be happy if FESCo started
> > > dictating the contents of the KDE spin.
> > 
> > I don't see it as dictation.  I see it as reaching a compromise.  FESCo
> > didn't even vote on it until after mclasen agreed to put the mixer
> > there.
> 
> Of course, having wwoods threaten to revert the whole VolumeControl
> feature has nothing to do with it...

Given that wwoods isn't even in FESCo, that'd be a neat trick.  But
isn't that the very definition of compromise?  Two sides each have
desires that neither side can agree upon.  Each side makes concessions
until they meet somewhere in the middle?

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
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