Underlying DE for the Workstation product

drago01 drago01 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 3 17:29:02 UTC 2014


On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 5:30 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"
<johannbg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 02/03/2014 04:08 PM, Christian Schaller wrote:
>>
>> Well first of all I have not advocated for banning any desktops from
>> Fedora,
>> this discussion is not about deleting packages from the Fedora repository.
>> And I realize that some users will make the choice to use something else
>> than our default setup.
>>
>> But that doesn't invalidate the value of having a default, focusing
>> development
>> resources on the default and expecting any alternative solutions to be
>> able to
>> productively co-exist with the default. Because a lot of end users
>> couldn't care
>> less about the 10 different desktops available, they just want something
>> that works
>> with their hardware and software. And if we know the top 10 feature
>> requests we have a
>> realistic chance of doing something about it as we don't have to consider
>> trying to do it 10
>> places or work around 10 sets of different desktop quirks and bugs.
>>
>> To me this is a cornerstone of what the products are meant to be about,
>> trying to do active
>> development of an identified product as opposed to just passively
>> packaging whatever a
>> series of upstreams happens to provide.
>
>
> You do realize we are an distribution that represents "upstream" in the
> larger GNU/Linux eco system and as such our "target users" are users that
> participate and contribute *back* to the community not the "consuming end
> user" we leave those for ubuntu.

Yes because a distribution that has no users other then its own
developers is the best way to attract contributors.
Note: It isn't.


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