Fedora 13 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting: 2010-03-04 @ 01:00 UTC Recap

Rakesh Pandit rakesh.pandit at gmail.com
Sun Mar 7 04:16:04 UTC 2010


On 6 March 2010 02:50, Adam Miller wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>> Adam Williamson wrote:
>>> We have various different definitions of the Alpha, it seems. The
>>> working definition that QA / rel-eng have always worked on when deciding
>>> whether to ship it is, broadly, 'can you install it, boot it, get a
>>> network connection, and install updates'. That's what the current Alpha
>>> release criteria and validation tests aim to explicitly codify and
>>> verify.
>>
>> But it also fails that definition and this was ignored just because it
>> didn't happen in the GNOME spin (which will always be the GNOME spin, not
>> the "desktop spin", but *A* desktop spin; FESCo, the Board or any other
>> committee deciding otherwise doesn't change this, it's like deciding that
>> apples are "fruit" and any other fruit can only be an "orange fruit", a
>> "pear fruit" etc., but not a "fruit" because only apples are that). :-/
>>
[..]
>
> I apologize in advance to all those who this might offend.
>
> Kevin, please stop being such an ass all the time. I mean really, just

Even though polite suggestions and pointers about discussions going
away from topic are welcome, but please refrain for using
inappropriate words (apologizing beforehand does not make it better).

> give it a rest. We get it, you *love* KDE and that's awesome but just
> because its not everyone's preference doesn't mean everyone is out to
> take KDE down.
>
> Maybe take some of this energy you spend starting Gnome vs. KDE flame
> wars (or trying to at least) and get more people involved in the KDE
> SIG. Get contributors interested and make then want to help contribute
> towards making the KDE experience in Fedora the best it can possibly
> be.
>
[..]

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Rakesh Pandit
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