On 06/11/2009 12:34 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote: > > == What is Fedora == > * last discussion: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:Board_meeting_2009-05-21 Is this the proposal being pursued from that discussion? """ spot: Suggest that GNOME Desktop spin be explicitly acknowledged as default ("first among equals") -- Changes to benefit other Spins that create a conflict should be arbitrated by FESCo, with guidance that the GNOME Desktop spin wins if all else is equal. If those changes are not amenable to the GNOME desktop SIG, then they go to FESCo for arbitration. If FESCo feels that the change is worthwhile, they should escalate to the Board for final decision. """ > * Chris is still chasing it down > * Desktop team meeting today covered this in part > * Nothing in writing yet > ** ACTION: Chris Aillon to have something ready June 25 If so, is this really within the Board's jurisdiction or is it stepping into an area that they've handed over to FESCo? Defining a target audience is definitely Board material. But defining how to address that audience (The GNOME Spin is the default spin, technical changes that create conflict are arbitrated by FESCo... but that arbitration is only binding on the non-GNOME party. If the GNOME Desktop spin disagrees with FESCo's ruling, it then goes to the Board) seems to be reaching into implementation and the technical realm. If, for instance, the Board decided that our goal is wooing more developers to use Fedora and our default audience is Windows programmers; perhaps an Eclipse based spin is a better implementation of that policy or KDE since its C++ and distributed on Windows or WXGTK or.... To me, the overarching goals and ideas of what Fedora is is at a higher level than a particular spin. It should be something that we can use for many, many years as it's an enunciation of the ideals that Fedora is building on no matter how the technical landscape changes because the ideas are about our relation to society, our users, and ourselves. This vision of what Fedora is seems like just the thing that the Board should be working on. Implementing these goals as a specific default spin; a method of arbitrating disputes; whether to install codeina or not -- are more changable. They are based on the technical realities of the present. But as technologies change, upstream projects evolve, and our developers decide which technical things to devote their time to work on the implementations need to change with them. And they need to be changed by people who are charged with dealing with the technical aspects of the distribution and can make decisions based on how it will affect the programs, user experience, and developers of the distribution in support of the overarching goals. -Toshio
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