On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 03:42:15PM +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > On 09/19/2013 03:26 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: > >If those are the goals, then setting up, in essence, a fork without > >discussing with those working on GNOME currently strikes me as an awfully > >passive-agressive (and unlikely to succeed) way to accomplish those goals, > >and so I'd ask why it should be done that way. > > Because the desktop community is not and never has been "welcoming" > to community. > > If you think they have been then I must say many of them have an odd > way of showing it. That hasn't been my experience at all, either in Fedora or upstream. I've approached GNOME contributors in both places numerous times with questions or concerns and they always get treated respectfully. I tend to approach assuming good intentions, and that seems to work well. -- 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/ The open source story continues to grow: http://opensource.com -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
