Shotwell 0.5

[Paul W. Frields]

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 02:52:56AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On 03/16/2010 02:47 AM, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> >
> > I know what comps is, and I have edited the gnome-desktop group to
> > reflect the change for the desktop spin.
> >
> > But as I said earlier, nobody is in charge of designing the DVD install.
> > Just making some undirected changes to comps groups is not a fix for
> > this problem
> >   
> The current DVD image is basically defined by comps and if you edit
> comps, you can control the result and since rel-eng does the compose,
> aren't they responsible for it?  If not, how do we fix it?  We cannot
> just ignore that experience.  The desktop live image despite being the
> default doesn't cover a bunch of use cases (ability to select a
> different package set or even a different filesystem for example) and
> Mo's survey shows that the majority of users continue to download the
> DVD image and while taking the step of moving to a large image and
> offering a better out of box experience solves some of that, it doesn't
> make the proble go away. 
> 
> Alternatively,  if noone is responsible for it, why are we still doing it?

Correction to above -- actually, direct download numbers I pull from
the HTTP logs show that the Desktop Live image far outnumber the DVD.
Mo's survey shows that the majority of respondents to her survey
continue to download the DVD image. :-)


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