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

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 12:24 +0100, Christoph Wickert wrote:

> ... because they work for Red Hat. Note that I'm not saying they are
> evil people, it's just in the nature of things they operate behind
> closed doors. It is so much easier to quickly go from one cube to the
> next to make a decision than having to bother with a committee, a
> mailing list or the many voices of the community.

It is quite noticeable that the desktop mailing list is very
low-traffic, and almost all the threads that do happen on it start when
someone outside of the desktop team asks something.

We're currently in the middle of the initial development on one of the
biggest changes in the default desktop in years - the switch to GNOME 3
- but on the desktop list, there have been four threads in the last
month, all started by people outside the team and not directly related
to the actual development effort. Two of them were started by me. One of
mine was about arranging desktop Test Days (which mclasen has been very
helpful with); the other three were all casual Rawhide users asking
about bugs / surprises in the experience. There's no actual 'work'
traffic on there. It is a quite opaque process, it seems.
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