Abandon "Default Desktop"

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Sun May 3 05:04:47 UTC 2009


Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On 05/01/2009 02:38 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> 
>> This doesn't invalidate the fact RH's predominance in Fedora-leadership
>> and the amount of @RH's participating in Fedora shows effects.
>>
>> People like you and keating likely are too RH-streamlined and too close
>> to RH to understand the importance of this consideration.
> 
> Anyone interested can look at the desktop focused features in the
> feature list for every release and results should speak for themselves.
> Those who shoulder the burden of the work decide the direction of the
> project as always.
Yes. As part of upstream projects, not as part of Fedora.

What currently is happening: Certain people on RH's payrole, who happen 
to be upstream for some packages, are abusing Fedora as vehicle to 
prematurely push "upstream works", sometimes at "any price".

I am sure, if the same people weren't working for @RH and if these 
projects weren't in "RH's business interest", many of these developments 
would not make it into Fedora or at least not in the shape the Fedora 
community is facing them.

One example for this is Gnome ... The KDE Fedora folks pick up the 
crumbs falling of Nokia's/Trolltech's/Novell/SUSE's table and "clean 
them up" as part of their Fedora integration works.

Ralf




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