DE discussion summary

[Richard Hughes]

On 10 February 2014 10:02, Colin Walters <walters at verbum.org> wrote:
> I find the idea that the long and historic relationship between GNOME and
> Fedora could turn around so quickly like that to be very strange

The fact we're even considering asking the question "which DE do we
want to use for workstation" is just crazy. I think we're kidding
ourselves if we want to try and answer that question honestly when the
biggest backer of the project by several orders of magnitude has
several hundred engineers working full time on GNOME and lower parts
of the stack that GNOME uses. If I remember correctly, we have about
two employees on all of KDE, and one on XFCE. None on LXDE. None on
MATE. Fedora may be a community distro, but without the backing of Red
Hat, it wouldn't be viable at all. When there's a Fedora release
blocker that needs a few days of developer time, who do you think
picks up the tab? I think that's probably an important thing to
understand before damaging the relationship any further on votes that
can only result in huge flame wars and a lot of wasted time.

Richard [*]

* Red Hat employee, but you probably knew that.