On 12/10/2013 07:59 PM, Christoph Wickert wrote:
And last but not least we need manpower for it's development and maintenance. And this is where no other desktop can beat GNOME.
Step right back how the community is working and reread the statement you just made...
Gnome developers within the project as well as many other upstream maintainers we have handle their development upstream and Gnome developers within our project as well as many other upstream developers we have prefer getting their reports filed upstream so what kind of downstream development are you seeing here that would be specific for Fedora only and to the workstation product that specifically requires their full time present here within the project and which application developers have agreed to devote their free time developing those that applications ?
When you make this statement "last but not least we need manpower for it's development and maintenance." with the exception of the kernel as far as I know the general rule of thumb for developers within the project is to fix in upstream first then backport fix downstream so what exactly is the benefit of your statement?
Would it not be better use of developers time to have packagers handle the primary downstream packaging ( with developers themselves only acting as co-maintainers and overseeing the distribution implementation ) so they have more time dealing with bugfixes and implementing features upstream?
Now with my QA hat on I must say that I prefer that we as well start looking into reporting where the developers are actually listening since that will in turn increase the likely hood that bug will be seen as well as being fixed which benefits everybody not only us here within Fedora and *improve* overall end user experience with Fedora.
Now if that happens to be in bugzilla.redhat we use bugzilla.redhat if that happens to be in bugzilla.gnome we use bugzilla.gnome...
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