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

[Jesse Keating]

On 12/16/10 4:38 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> Or, to quote Christoph exactly:
> 
> "... 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."

They just don't know how RHT works then.  People that may be 3 cubes
away from each other will prefer to chat on IRC than in person.  It's
quicker and involves less interruption.

I think the real key things here are thus:

The Desktop team is primarily made up of software developers, who's "day
job" is writing code upstream.  As such, they tend to spend most of
their day communicating with the upstream community, in upstream
locations.  They are still transparent, if you know where to look.

The difference being is that they are primarily developers working on
software and focusing on software development issues.  This is different
from the other SIGs who are primarily packagers who are focusing on
downstream packaging and bug triaging.  I think this fundamental
difference is the reason why the desktop team seems to operate so
"differently" from the rest.

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Jesse Keating
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