GNOME as the default desktop (was Re: Fedora Board Meeting Minutes - 2010-12-06)

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

On 12/16/2010 10:18 AM, Nicu Buculei wrote:
> On 12/16/2010 10:43 AM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
>> Our desktop team should be informing us ( us meaning community ).
>>
>> * What they are trying to achieve
>> * Where they are heading
>> * Where they are at in that process
>> * Where they are going next
>> * What obstacles they have faced
>> * What obstacles they are now are facing
>> * What they need from us ( us meaning community ) to get there and
>> achieve their goal
> This is an easy one: there are people in the community that believe in
> the GNOME OS (see
> http://www.slideshare.net/jonmccann/guadec-2010shellyes) and they do it
> inside Fedora only because from there comes the paycheck and there are
> people in the community that believe in the Fedora OS, on which GNOME is
> just a part. A part that may be replaced, if the case.
>
> There is a long standing conflict on those two visions and from them
> years of debate.
>

I understand what you are getting at here as in the year long debate 
which existed years before Gnome Shell came into the picture but that's 
irrelevant to what I was mentioning above as in the communication 
breakdown that's happening between Fedora Gnome Desktop and the community.

JBG