FESCo meeting summary for 2009-06-26

[Christopher Stone]

On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Rex Dieter<rdieter at math.unl.edu> wrote:
>
> Rahul, I question the point of ... making laundry lists of pros, cons, bugs
> of desktop X vs Y...  I'm sure folks can come up with a similar list of
> gnome (or other) related negative items, or kde-only features too but I
> question it's constructiveness.
>
> My only comments here:
>
> 1.  The desktop spin *is* gnome for cryin out loud.  Seriously, common sense
> is just screaming in my head to call a spade a spade.
>
> 2.  A bigger question to me is what does it mean to be the "default"
> desktop.  All this "it's the default because..." comments make me wonder if
> folks are just grasping for reasons to justify the status quo.  Where or how
> is this documented anywhere?  If it isn't, shouldn't it be?

Whatever desktop RH employees are paid to work on to satisfy their
biggest RHEL customers needs.  Or what they *think* their biggest RHEL
customers want.

I think the question you need to ask is why they must force this onto
the Fedora *community* OS when the community is clearly objecting to
it.