Updates next steps

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 20:18 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-04-23 at 03:55 +0100, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > However, this plan would not affect only 'this desktop thing'. It would
> > affect the entire distribution. The desktop mailing list really is not
> > the appropriate venue for this discussion. If you're only posting it to
> > desktop list to try and hide it from people who would disagree with the
> > plan, that's a really bad idea. 
> 
> I see this as a discussion in the open of how the desktop team would
> like to see the updates experience, so that the desktop team can work on
> a proposal for a wider audience.  It's no different than discussing it
> in a cube, or in an IRC meeting, or on a bus, or whatever.  While the
> proposal may effect many people, the discussion of creating the proposal
> from the Desktop point of view does not need to be shouted from the roof
> tops and held in a venue where we have 4K mixed opinions and endless
> argument.

That's a good way to look at it, and if that's the idea then it seems
fine to me. I was a bit worried with the discussion about 'just going
ahead and doing stuff', though.
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