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

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 13:21 +0100, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:

> > 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.

But...

> > 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.

this part isn't.
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