On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 19:34 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Alex Hudson wrote: > > I think it's a bit disingenuous to talk about prevailing opinion of the > > mailing list otherwise; to me a lot of the discussion looks an awful lot > > like a vocal minority > > I think it's quite cheap to write off the mailing list consensus as a "vocal > minority" with no evidence for such a conclusion. No, not really. Consensus of "the list" is not the same as consensus of the participants of a particular discussion - if anything, the evidence has to come the other way that a particular discussion does in any way reflect the balance of developer opinion. I'm not saying that opinions on the list are worthless; quite the contrary. I just don't think it constitutes evidence one way or another as to the balance of opinion of the members of the list. > > and some of these issues (e.g., confusing the name of the Desktop spin > > with others) have been pretty much done to death and certainly aren't > > "obvious" to me. > > Why should we not call the GNOME spin, and the GNOME desktop in general, by > its name? This has been done to death, surely? For one, I don't think applications should get chosen for the Desktop spin for being GNOME: e.g., I wouldn't choose Epiphany over Firefox, even though it's more lightweight, better integrated, etc. Prioritizing non-GNOME applications doesn't seem right for something you would label "GNOME spin". Cheers Alex. -- This message was scanned by Better Hosted and is believed to be clean. http://www.betterhosted.com -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
