Fedora Plasma Product, feedback please

[Christian Schaller]

The standards based approach has been attempted for 13 years now, 
and for all those 13 years I have yet to meet anyone who likes or
thinks the LSB approach is working. 

Christian


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" <johannbg at gmail.com>
> To: advisory-board at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Sent: Friday, March 28, 2014 11:25:59 AM
> Subject: Re: Fedora Plasma Product, feedback please
> 
> 
> On 03/28/2014 10:01 AM, Christian Schaller wrote:
> > The premise for the 3 products was a move away from the exact model of
> > 'Fedora' being
> > a random collection of spins and instead have 3 clearly defined products.
> > Turning back
> > the clock here to the old spins model is a change to the premise of the 3
> > product model.
> 
> This is unavoidable fallout from decisions made by those directing the WG.
> 
> The workstation working group should have defined a set of "standards"
> for all desktop environment to strive to meet like the server WG does
> with it's roles or at least planned to do when I was a member of it (
> granted I have not been paying much attention what it's up to now ) as
> well as the cloud WG and Environment WG are doing  ( they are not
> limited to single application or a single application stack or language
> ) but instead the workstation working group decided to focus building a
> product around only one desktop environment "Gnome".
> 
> This has the consequences that...
> 
> A)
> 
> A working group will emerge around each of the other desktop
> environments so that they can keep themselves in the existence and
> relevant to Fedora to their target audience within Fedora which also
> will unavoidable overlap significantly with what the workstation working
> group is doing.
> 
> Or
> 
> B)
> 
> The contributors and maintainers of the desktop environments and spins
> stop contributing to Fedora and find another home for themselves and
> their target audience, an home that treats their contribution
> respectfully and equally and we loose contributors within our project.
> 
> JBG
> 
> You reap what you sow...
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