On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 12:24 +0100, Christoph Wickert wrote: > ... because they work for Red Hat. Note that I'm not saying they are > evil people, it's just in the nature of things they operate behind > closed doors. It is so much easier to quickly go from one cube to the > next to make a decision than having to bother with a committee, a > mailing list or the many voices of the community. It is quite noticeable that the desktop mailing list is very low-traffic, and almost all the threads that do happen on it start when someone outside of the desktop team asks something. We're currently in the middle of the initial development on one of the biggest changes in the default desktop in years - the switch to GNOME 3 - but on the desktop list, there have been four threads in the last month, all started by people outside the team and not directly related to the actual development effort. Two of them were started by me. One of mine was about arranging desktop Test Days (which mclasen has been very helpful with); the other three were all casual Rawhide users asking about bugs / surprises in the experience. There's no actual 'work' traffic on there. It is a quite opaque process, it seems. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
