[Fedora-spins] spins in f19

[Bill Nottingham]

Christoph Wickert (christoph.wickert at gmail.com) said: 
> Am Dienstag, den 29.01.2013, 12:48 -0500 schrieb Bill Nottingham:
> > Redirecting from spins at .
> > 
> > Dennis Gilmore (dennis at ausil.us) said: 
> > > [the multi-desktop DVD] uses grub/syslinux to select which of the 5 desktop lives you
> > > want to run. its designed for use by ambassadors to give out at events.
> > > it has both 32 and 64 bit images on it  its designed for use with dual
> > > layer media. Release Engineering produce it for final only to be used
> > > to create media to be given away at events, it is not designed or
> > > intended for general consumption.
> > 
> > If it's not intended for general consumption, why on earth is it
> > what we give away at events?
> 
> Because it hard to guess in advance what people want: GNOME, KDE, Xfce,
> LXDE, i386, x86_64. You always run out of something and we ended up
> shipping media back and forth. With the multi-images, live has become so
> much easier for the Ambassadors - not to mention that we cut costs by
> over 50% (or by 400% if you consider one DVD 8 CDs).
> 
> > Shouldn't what we give to people be something that is intended for
> > general consumption?
> 
> Sure, but what defines "intended for general consumption"?

I don't know, I'm just going by how Dennis described it. I'm also
concerned that part of the problem is having essentially 8 deliverables
that people might want at the show that requires this level of hacking
together but I realize that not everyone shares that opinion.

Bill