Fedora 14 (two releases away folks) Feature proposal

Seth Vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Fri Oct 9 17:10:58 UTC 2009



On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Mike McGrath wrote:

> On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Rex Dieter wrote:
>
>> Seth Vidal wrote:
>>> Apropos (in a tangential way) our discussion today. And as a result of some
>>> irc-discussions:
>>>
>>>  Since the board  defines which spin is the default spin then I suggest the
>>> board Make the kde or xfce spin the default spin for F14.
>> ...
>>> It makes it clear that the spins process is serious and f'real and it will
>>> test how well our processes work.
>>
>> If nothing else, this is a very worthwhile "what-if" thought-experiment.  It
>> would help highlight process assumptions and associated pain-points, to help
>> pave the way for other successful derivatives/spins.
>>
>> Fedora's spin process has been haphazardly taking baby steps in that direction
>> over the past couple of releases, and the kde-sig will continue to work
>> earnestly with this now-clear goal in mind.  We've also garnered commitments
>> from our own and upstream kde developers to help work through any
>> implementation or technical details required.
>>
>
>
> This is probably naive of me, but besides changing the link on the
> get-fedora page to KDE or XFCE... What else would there be?

I guess making kde or xfce be the desktop install selected by default with 
anaconda in comps/installclasses.

But that's about it. This why I figured this wasn't a terribly 
code-invasive change.

-sv




More information about the fedora-advisory-board mailing list