On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 19:23 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 15:44 -0400, Jon Masters wrote: > > Sadly enough, this means that a shiny Ubuntu installer is to the whole > > distribution what GNOME shell is to the GNOME project. It doesn't matter > > if you've got a lot of bells and whistles underneath, or what you can > > do, if you don't look pretty while you do it. It's just the reality. I > > would venture that one of the reasons Rich sent his mail originally is > > that he's aware of this mentality and pointing out its effects. > > You forgot to qualify the above paragraph: it doesn't matter _to a > distribution reviewer_. We aren't necessarily making Fedora for > distribution reviewers. But impressions that get spread around do tend to haunt you. The most technically-superior solution unfortunately doesn't always enjoy the popularity it could have. (e.g. Beta max :) ) ~m -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel