Developers responsibillity to Fedora Users

[Darryl L. Pierce]

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 11:08:55PM +0900, Misha Shnurapet wrote:
> 28.09.2011, 21:43, "Darryl L. Pierce" <dpierce at redhat.com>:
> > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 10:30:34PM +0100, Terry Barnaby wrote:
> >
> >>  I don't use Gnome myself, mainly KDE.
> >>  But its seems like a lot of people would like Gnome2 back. Why doesn't someone,
> >>  who has a problem with it just rebuild and release Gnome2 for F15 (with a
> >>  different package name) ?
> >
> > +1
> >
> > That's the open source way. Don't like Gnome 3? Then fork and maintain
> > Gnome 2 and build a new project around it. If there are enough people
> > who support such a move then a community will form around it.
> 
> The GNOME 3 issue is outside Fedora big time.

Right, I wasn't suggesting that Fedora take on this task. That's why I
said "a community will form around it ", referring to the Gnome 2
maintenance effort.

> Inside Fedora there's choice should a user decide not to adhere to the course of the GNOME Project.

Yep: KDE, LXCE, etc.

> The only responsibility out there is for timely bugfixes, because the most annoying bugs often mean no alternative.
> 
> I'm a proud user of GNOME 3 and Fedora and I will continue to use these together.

As am I. I love the interface and find myself enjoying it as I work.

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