Summary of accepted Fedora 20 Changes - week 30

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2013-07-25 at 17:09 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> On 25 July 2013 16:59, Billy Crook <billycrook at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Bastien Nocera <bnocera at redhat.com> wrote:
> >> Given the amount of time that he spent on the mailing-list fighting for those features, then it looks like a waste of time, that work has been done.
> >
> > Unfeatures technically.  He wanted to remove features from the Default
> > spin.   Subtracting functionality is not a feature.  He wanted an
> > unfeature.
> >
> 
> No he wanted out of the default install. We have a badly defined
> naming scheme which is causing confusion:
> 
> default install -> what you get when you put the DVD in and do a click
> through install.
> default spin -> The GNOME desktop livecd.
> 
> Spins are managed by their respective "teams":
> default has been GNOME and managed by GNOME sig
> kde is managed by KDE sig
> xfce is managed by XFCE sig
> etc etc
> 
> So I would say that the GNOME team is within its rights in managing
> its spin. Whether it is named default etc is someone else's problem.

The tension between Desktop being a 'spin' and also being our 'default
deliverable' has never really been resolved comprehensively at a policy
level, as I see it.
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