website mockups, what is fedora?

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sun Aug 23 17:46:40 UTC 2009


On 08/23/2009 11:13 PM, Thomas Janssen wrote:

> You haven't carefully read what i wrote. I said a "General Download
> Link" [Download] leading to the download page (and this page provides
> what i wrote).
> I doubt you want different download pages.

Yes but that is already being taken into account in the current mockups.
get.fp.o vs spins.fp.o. Don't see any disagreement.

>> We can take a vote into account on occasions but blindly following it is
>> a disaster.
> 
> What i said with other words. You can't listen to 1% of your userbase.
> But if 40-50-60-70% has that wish. You might not ignore them.
> Of course you can.

Yes, we can still override the overwhelming majority if they vote for
example, no password prompts anywhere. My point is simply that, a vote
can only be one of the factors if at all in any decision about defaults.
The actual majority of users simply won't care about technical gibberish
like GNOME or KDE or Xfce.

Rahul




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