Underlying DE for the Workstation product, Desktop -vs- Workstation

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

On 02/03/2014 02:32 PM, drago01 wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 3:11 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"
> <johannbg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 02/03/2014 02:08 PM, Josh Boyer wrote:
>>> I think that's a fair observation, but I would urge the WG to set
>>> aside marketing for a minute and focus on what they feel is the best
>>> positioned DE from a technical and resource perspective to build the
>>> product from.
>>
>> When you speak of resource perspective are you referring to downstream
>> resources  or upstream resources because the former does not matter just the
>> latter...
> Both matter.

I disagree and require further explanation from you since I question the 
current thought of upstream role in downstream distributions after 
exploring the communities surrounding both to better understand the eco 
system of thoughts and the effects of those thoughts that residing in 
both of them.

The conclusion after that exploration of thought is that the role of 
upstream in downstream distributions should be a role of an consultant 
for upstream application or application stack him or her is developing 
and if time allows become a co-maintainer for a completely different 
application or application stack ( outside their "comfort zone" ) then 
what he or she is developing in the community for the distribution he or 
she uses.

In other much simpler words upstream maintainers are distracted from 
what they do best which is working on their code by maintaining their 
component in downstream distribution and that distraction is not helpful 
to end user, not helpful for those us in QA and does not expand those 
maintainers as individuals.

The more time the maintainer has to focus on his code the better we and 
other downstream distribution are as an result of that.

JBG