----- Original Message ----- > On Thu, 2015-10-29 at 06:38 -0400, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > Given the reason why those 2 exist, I don't think we'll be merging > > them. > > > > We already had that discussion when creating the #fedora-workstation > > channel > > on freenode. > > What is the reason why those two exist? > > They're to me they're almost identical channels, and I have way too > many tabs open in Empathy, so I've started hanging out in #fedora > -workstation only. Well, #fedora-desktop tends to have more GNOME > development discussion, but everything that happens there could really > happen in #gnome-hackers or #fedora-workstation instead.... I'll quote from David Zeuthen's 7 year old mail: http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-desktop-list/2008-September/msg00018.html " I think the question of why #fedora-desktop is on gimpnet has come up before so I'll try to repeat what I think the reason was: it's more important to stay close to the upstream channels; it does happen, rather frequently in fact, that people from other GNOME distros pop into #fedora-desktop to ask questions or that people working on Fedora desktop summon people to #fedora-desktop. We'd lose part of that synergy if we were on freenode. " It was also discussed in this thread: https://lists.stg.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/thread/BLGL4G2T6ZJDEFSQGWOQJUXYKBWZECCL/ -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
