The standards based approach has been attempted for 13 years now, and for all those 13 years I have yet to meet anyone who likes or thinks the LSB approach is working. Christian ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" <johannbg@xxxxxxxxx> > To: advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Friday, March 28, 2014 11:25:59 AM > Subject: Re: Fedora Plasma Product, feedback please > > > On 03/28/2014 10:01 AM, Christian Schaller wrote: > > The premise for the 3 products was a move away from the exact model of > > 'Fedora' being > > a random collection of spins and instead have 3 clearly defined products. > > Turning back > > the clock here to the old spins model is a change to the premise of the 3 > > product model. > > This is unavoidable fallout from decisions made by those directing the WG. > > The workstation working group should have defined a set of "standards" > for all desktop environment to strive to meet like the server WG does > with it's roles or at least planned to do when I was a member of it ( > granted I have not been paying much attention what it's up to now ) as > well as the cloud WG and Environment WG are doing ( they are not > limited to single application or a single application stack or language > ) but instead the workstation working group decided to focus building a > product around only one desktop environment "Gnome". > > This has the consequences that... > > A) > > A working group will emerge around each of the other desktop > environments so that they can keep themselves in the existence and > relevant to Fedora to their target audience within Fedora which also > will unavoidable overlap significantly with what the workstation working > group is doing. > > Or > > B) > > The contributors and maintainers of the desktop environments and spins > stop contributing to Fedora and find another home for themselves and > their target audience, an home that treats their contribution > respectfully and equally and we loose contributors within our project. > > JBG > > You reap what you sow... > _______________________________________________ > advisory-board mailing list > advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
