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

[Bill Nottingham]

Josh Boyer (jwboyer at gmail.com) said: 
> 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.

In any case, what I said is unlikely to elevate the conversation into
a useful direction, and for that I apologize.

Bill