Brief diary of an F-7 installation

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Tue Jun 19 23:12:56 UTC 2007


Les Mikesell wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>> Who picks the defaults and why?  
>>
>> People who build the distribution.
>>
>> I haven't seen any community poll or
>>> feedback mechanism for what the most people would prefer as the default.
>>
>> Community != democracy. Fedora in particular is more of a meritocratic 
>> system.
> 
> What does that mean in terms of equivalent systems like desktop 
> environments?  Does something 'invented here' automatically assume more 
> merit than someone else's project?   Or does the guy doing the work of
> editing the file get his choice regardless of the effect on end users?

It means that developers who are involved with the project more would 
pick the choices that based on their development focus and expertise 
among one of the parameters.

Fedora developers who are focusing on KDE have their own special 
interest group that has weekly meetings and have their own spin of 
Fedora that is available as part of the latest release.

With Fedora 7, all the tools that the project uses to go from source to 
release is available publicly and you can create your own custom spins, 
mix and match packages from Fedora and other sources so you aren't bound 
to what the project chooses. Have fun.

Rahul




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