On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 02:26:41PM -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote: > On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 13:16 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: > > Of course. One must also be careful to not take the "less choice" > > mantra too far (yes, that is possible too). There's value judgement > > inherent to even offer a choice. Sometimes it is worth it, sometimes not. > > > crazy-talk-thinking-out-loud rhetorical: What would it take to justify > > offering a spin choice, that, say, included kde? A box of strawberries, > > X% userbase, a project/sig with metric Y of success, a pony, all of the > > above? maybe nothing. a board mandating it? > > I don't know. I hear the folks pushing for there to be a DVD link on the > front page are offering trained dolphins with lasers. And the folks > pushing for there to be an x86_64 link on the front page are offering a > a year's supply of coconuts. I guess you'll just have to compete on the > open market. > > There *IS* a spin choice for KDE on the spins page. It's rather > prominent. It will be more so when the page is reorganized to present > the spins in order of popularity by default. > > Are you asking me what will it take to put a KDE download link on the > main download page for Fedora? Maybe you're focusing on the wrong thing. > Your goal is to put you should focus more on how to make what's best for > the users happen rather than what's best for you. Mo, you asked about that diagram earlier -- I had forgotten all about the fact that I had a picture of it on my phone! Thanks for reminding me, I just uploaded it here: http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/images/spins-workflow-20090807.jpg Feel free to take a copy to wherever you need it, or diagram it more clearly for anyone's use. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
