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

[Josh Boyer]

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 6:41 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 18:19 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>> Christoph Wickert (christoph.wickert at googlemail.com) said:
>> > KDE SIG: 36 members, 4 work for Red Hat.
>> > Xfce SIG: 11 members, all from the community.
>> > LXDE SIG: 8 members, all from the community.
>>
>> You know, I really love the reduction that because of where I get my
>> paycheck, no matter all the work I throw in that *isn't* part of my
>> day job, that I'm not a member of the community.
>>
>> That's tremendously motivating - thanks for being excellent.
>
> c'mon, Bill, that's needless snark. It's clear what Christoph meant: the
> desktop team has a lack of non-RH contributors.

Why is that a problem?  It's not.

The fact that people cast aspersions or suspicions on a whim just
because of someone's employer is bullshit.  It doesn't matter why
they're pointing it out.  This continues to happen over and over, and
I would guess that it's the repetitiveness of it all that prompted
Bill's comment.

Personally, this whole thread is the perfect example of the kind of
behavior on all sides that turns me off to the Fedora community
entirely.  The overreaction, the pile on of unrelated issues, the
bitching about employers, the inevitable "trying to facilitate" but
not really actually doing anything.  It's very old and very tired.  No
thanks.

josh