FESCo meeting summary for 2009-06-26

[Christopher Stone]

On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Adam Miller<maxamillion at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Christopher
> Stone<chris.stone at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Whatever desktop RH employees are paid to work on to satisfy their
>> biggest RHEL customers needs.  Or what they *think* their biggest RHEL
>> customers want.
>>
>> I think the question you need to ask is why they must force this onto
>> the Fedora *community* OS when the community is clearly objecting to
>> it.
>
> RedHat employees are paid to work on Fedora, why would anyone scoff at
> their contributions to the project?

Because they are focusing their efforts in the wrong place.  They
should be helping KDE, not GNOME!  GNOME is a dying if not dead
desktop.  It can barely hold its own as a default install on Fedora!
The sooner RH employees abandon GNOME the better prepared they will be
for the ultimate transition they will have to eventually make.

> Would it be more acceptable if
> someone from Intel or Dell were developing and contributing to Fedora
> and backing Gnome?

Acceptable to me?  I don't own stock in Intel or Dell.  I own shares
of RHT.  If Redhat is wasting resources on GNOME, I care about it!

>
> This is a community and we are fortunate enough to have some of our
> community members who are lucky enough to have landed a job where they
> are paid to work full time on our community based project. Does the
> fact that they get a pay check make their contributions any different
> than those of us who do it in our spare time?

Yes, it would appear they get to force their misguided choice of
desktop onto the ignorant masses, and even still it can barely hold
its own as the default.  RH is going to have to abandon GNOME
eventually, and the sooner they do so the better.


>
> I honestly don't see where this has been "forced" into the
> distribution by RedHat either, it has been decided upon by the
> community, by community members.
>
> -Adam
>
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