On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 4:13 AM, Máirín Duffy <duffy(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
On 01/29/2013 04:59 PM, Eric Smith wrote:
> I don't disagree with the "more research and reason" part, but the
> current default desktop has only been "our default" for four releases,
> F15 through F18. I don't recall any serious "research and reason"
> having been involved in the switch that occurred when F15 was being
> developed. As far as I can tell, it was just thrust upon us without
> much consideration as to whether it was good, bad, or indifferent.
Actually a lot of research and reason went into GNOME 3's development
[1],
That's about as relevant as "a lot of coding went into
$project",
which is... not a whole lot when considering which project to make the
default.
and we picked it up because we are an upstream distro [2].
GNOME isn't the only possible upstream. We picked it up at that time
implicitly because it was presented as an upgrade instead of basically
a new project with a new direction.
To save
others time... the "testing and validation" part has no
results on the wiki that I can see.
Mirek