On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 5:30 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" <johannbg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 02/03/2014 04:08 PM, Christian Schaller wrote: >> >> Well first of all I have not advocated for banning any desktops from >> Fedora, >> this discussion is not about deleting packages from the Fedora repository. >> And I realize that some users will make the choice to use something else >> than our default setup. >> >> But that doesn't invalidate the value of having a default, focusing >> development >> resources on the default and expecting any alternative solutions to be >> able to >> productively co-exist with the default. Because a lot of end users >> couldn't care >> less about the 10 different desktops available, they just want something >> that works >> with their hardware and software. And if we know the top 10 feature >> requests we have a >> realistic chance of doing something about it as we don't have to consider >> trying to do it 10 >> places or work around 10 sets of different desktop quirks and bugs. >> >> To me this is a cornerstone of what the products are meant to be about, >> trying to do active >> development of an identified product as opposed to just passively >> packaging whatever a >> series of upstreams happens to provide. > > > You do realize we are an distribution that represents "upstream" in the > larger GNU/Linux eco system and as such our "target users" are users that > participate and contribute *back* to the community not the "consuming end > user" we leave those for ubuntu. Yes because a distribution that has no users other then its own developers is the best way to attract contributors. Note: It isn't. -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
