comps changes for f15

Matthias Clasen mclasen at redhat.com
Thu Jan 13 17:21:11 UTC 2011


On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 17:07 +0000, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 11:54 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> 
> > It didn't happen back then. I think we can get back to 700M with some
> > discipline.
> 
> one of the common themes of the F14 review cycle was ridiculing the lack
> of an office suite on the desktop image, particularly given the presence
> of 'useless' things like planner (I'm paraphrasing from the reviews, not
> giving my own personal opinion). I know we have good arguments against
> including an office suite, and I suspect planner is just in there as a
> hangover from when we tried to include GNOME Office, but there does seem
> to be a consistent impression in reviews that the current package choice
> seems bizarre. It's worth at least considering going to 1GB to have
> LibreOffice, I think, and if we don't, we should drop planner from the
> desktop spin as well as dropping LibreOffice, to avoid the apparent
> weirdness of having a planning tool but no other office apps.

Sure, dropping planner is easy. I fear that an attempt to go to 1G at
this point will end the same way it did the last time around: nobody has
the extra time to oversee this, and ensure that we have a consistent
story, all the way from the web page to test days to whatever else is
affected. I certainly don't have any time to spare for this...



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