Fedora Bounties (seeking ideas)

[Jon Nettleton]

On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 13:23 +1000, Rodd Clarkson wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 22:49 -0400, Jon Nettleton wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 04:42 +0200, Miloslav Trmac wrote:
> > > Arthur Pemberton napsal(a):
> > > > Well I can take your word on that. However, it is handly encouraging
> > > > when one selects all KDE apps in Anaconda-Pirut and then I boot and
> > > > find gdm. And the only way to fix tha tis to manually uninstall gdm or
> > > > edit /etc/X11/predm
> > > It is hardly encouraging to see posts implying that KDE is intentionally
> > > crippled" on fedora-devel ;)
> > > 
> > > (echo DISPLAYMANAGER=KDE >> /etc/sysconfig/desktop)
> > > 	Mirek
> > > 
> > I hardly think that KDE is intentionally crippled at all.  If anything
> > my guess is that it just isn't as thoroughly tested.  I think this
> > reflects more on the participation of KDE users in the testing process
> > of the Fedora development process.  I guess the only proof to that
> > statement would be some fancy bugzilla reporting.  If a bug exists for
> > one community or the other, it isn't going to be fixed unless it is
> > reported.
> 
> 
> One factor to consider is those that have a preference for either KDE or
> Gnome are likely to choose a distro that defaults to their preferred
> desktop.  So, since Fedora defaults to Gnome, it's more likely that
> Gnome users will use it (which makes it a sort of self-fulfilling
> prophecy).
> 
> I wouldn't be surprised to find that distros that default to KDE get
> less testing with Gnome.
> 
I completely agree that can be the case.  Looking back at my statement I
can see how it can be mis-construed.  I didn't mean that the KDE users
weren't pulling their weight in debugging.  In participation I clearly
meant numbers of user and bugs filed, which also might be wrong.  That
is why I suggested looking at bugzilla.  Obviously the proper solution
to this isn't to discuss the holy trinity, but for the original poster
to file a bugzilla and get the issued resolved.

Jon