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[Paul W. Frields]

On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 03:33:23PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-02-10 at 21:26 +0100, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 12:29:25PM +0100, Lukáš Tinkl wrote:
> > > Dne 10.2.2014 12:09, Richard Hughes napsal(a):
> > > >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
> > > 
> > > I think you've made a typo here (hundreds???)
> > 
> > This is not a typo.  If you consider not just GNOME but the lower
> > parts of the stack on which GNOME relies (as Colin wrote), it is
> > actually hundreds.  Of course, some of those lower parts of the stack
> > are likely shared by many DEs, in varying amounts, but it's still
> > accurate.
> 
> It's clearly *not* accurate, though, to use the 'desktop plus underlying
> stack' number for GNOME, but only the 'desktop' number for the other
> desktops. That's obviously an unviable comparison.
> 
> It's either say, what, about a dozen(?) vs. two or three if you just
> consider those working actually on the desktop, or "a dozen" plus
> "hundreds" vs. "two or three" plus "hundreds". You can't get away with
> comparing "a dozen" plus "hundreds" against "two or three", as Richard's
> mail did:
> 
> "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."

Right, I think that comparison may not be totally fair.  On top of
those technologies, having dozens of people who work on GNOME is a
compelling enough argument IMHO.  I should have spoken less to the
semantics, thanks.

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