On 10 February 2014 10:02, Colin Walters <walters@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I find the idea that the long and historic relationship between GNOME and > Fedora could turn around so quickly like that to be very strange The fact we're even considering asking the question "which DE do we want to use for workstation" is just crazy. I think we're kidding ourselves if we want to try and answer that question honestly when the biggest backer of the project by several orders of magnitude has several hundred engineers working full time on GNOME and lower parts of the stack that GNOME uses. If I remember correctly, we have about two employees on all of KDE, and one on XFCE. None on LXDE. None on MATE. Fedora may be a community distro, but without the backing of Red Hat, it wouldn't be viable at all. When there's a Fedora release blocker that needs a few days of developer time, who do you think picks up the tab? I think that's probably an important thing to understand before damaging the relationship any further on votes that can only result in huge flame wars and a lot of wasted time. Richard [*] * Red Hat employee, but you probably knew that. -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
