Developers responsibillity to Fedora Users

[Alexander Volovics]

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 03:12:15AM -0700, Craig White wrote:

> No problem with your English whatsoever.
> 
> The only problem that I have is with the logic that the fate of GNOME
> represents the fate of Open Source or Linux - it doesn't.
> 
> Just look at the feedback on the new Macintosh OS X Lion or Windows 8
> preview... there is a lot of griping about the changes to the UI. It's
> certain that regardless of the OS, changes to the UI will always raise a
> bunch of complaints and the more drastic the changes, the louder the
> complaints. That's not really surprising.
> 
> People who appreciate open source should love the bold, fresh ideas that
> GNOME 3 represents, even if they don't actually intend to use it. It
> aspires to encompass the computer regardless of form factor. It dares to
> innovate. It spreads the umbrella of implementation that protects it
> from those who believe they can patent virtually everything by providing
> evidence of prior art. It demonstrates that the innovation doesn't only
> emanate from Cupertino (though some of us knew that) or Redmond
> (puhlease).
> 
> But to get to your point that 'GNOME has abandoned GNOME 2 and put
> distributions in an awkward position' - perhaps you are confused. Let's
> just stay on topic, Fedora. Fedora is very clear on this... Fedora's
> core value is to implement new versions as early as reasonable to help
> drive the development and provide valuable feedback. GNOME 2 is done and
> if a sufficient number of people want to maintain it for security
> issues, it can continue on as it always has. But Fedora is giving us a
> glimpse of the future by implementing the leading edge now... that is
> and has always been the core value of Fedora. There's no awkwardness or
> confusion there.

Hear hear !

Alexander