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

[Jaroslav Reznik]

On Thursday, December 16, 2010 12:22:20 pm Christoph Wickert wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 16.12.2010, 05:34 -0500 schrieb Jared K. Smith:
> > I guess what I'm trying
> > to say is that making a list of past grievances *without* ideas and
> > suggestions for moving forward isn't as useful (at least to me) as a
> > list of possible solutions or ideas for making things better in the
> > future.
> 
> If I name 10 things that went wrong in the past, the stop forward IMHO
> is obvious. Stop it!
> 
> It's simply the opposite of what has happened:
>       * If you are about to make changes that affect a large number of
>         packages and maintainers, announce them on time. This is already
>         in the wiki at [1].
>       * Do not make fundamental changes late in the release cycle, not a
>         few days and not after *after* beta freeze [2].
>       * Do not hardcode dependencies too much. [3].
>       * Do not hardcode dependencies on themes. This is useless because
>         you will never know if people are actually using this particular
>         theme.
>       * Respond to bugs in a timely manner [4].
>       * Communicate, reply to questions and critisism.

I agree - but these points are more FESCo point and tasks for FESCo.

R.

> I think we all agree on these points. They are ether part of our
> guidelines or common sense. The question is why some people still don't
> care. We had this discussion in the past a couple of times but so far
> nothing has really changed.
> 
> Regards,
> Christoph
> 
> [1]
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_maintainer_responsibilities#Notify_ot
> hers_of_changes_that_may_affect_their_packages [2]
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Beta_Freeze_Policy and
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Feature_Freeze_Policy
> [3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Requires
> [4]
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_maintainer_responsibilities#Deal_with
> _reported_bugs_in_a_timely_manner
> 
> 
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