Fedora 7

[Bill Nottingham]

Jason L Tibbitts III (tibbs at math.uh.edu) said: 
> JK> Its no mystery that Fedora is a Gnome centric distribution, and it
> JK> should be no surprise that the Fedora Desktop spin is Gnome based.
> 
> Umm, isn't the Fedora supposed to become the community's distribution,
> and so isn't it up to the community to decide whether Fedora is
> "anything"-centric?
> 
> I could care less about naming either way, but declaring up-front that
> regardless of what the community does or wants, Fedora is still going
> to favor any specific technology seems counterproductive in this new
> spirit of complete community involvement.

Well, it may be presumptive to speak for 'Fedora-the-project', however,
there seems to be an underlying assumption in this mail, that there
is:

  Red Hat                    |           Community

If that's not intended to be there, I'm sorry - that's just the
impression I got.

Rather, I believe there is a large Fedora community that includes
many people from Red Hat. In this community, right now, there is
a large developer community that is interested in working on GNOME
- it's not being deceptive to say that at the moment, it's larger
than the community currently working on KDE, XFCE, E, or whatever.
That GNOME community has stated that they want a desktop spin of Fedora
that includes GNOME, and has stepped up to do it. So it's on the
feature list.

I'm not going to lie to you - Red Hat has significant interests that
are going to drive the resources we assign to Fedora, as Fedora is
the upstream of RHEL; the fact that Red Hat has these interests and
allocates resources this way isn't going to change. What we're trying
to change is make it easy for Fedora to be used for *even more than
RHEL*, whether it be Yellow Dog, or OLPC, or whatever. 

Not to talk about 'the other guys', but much in the way that
there is Ubuntu and Kubuntu.

Bill