On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 19:16 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > On 06/19/2012 07:00 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > "The term 'release-blocking desktops' should be understood to mean all > > the desktop environments in which bugs are currently considered capable > > of blocking a Fedora release. The current set of release-blocking > > desktops is GNOME and KDE." > > > The reason for KDE being there is for historic reason at least that what > was mentioned when we in QA discussed this and you yourself are well > aware of the times we have had to make a chose should we block the > release for something that is not considered the "default" or should we > not. > > The board has yet to clarify what categorizes them as release blocking > desktops for other *de and spins to be able to reach that status and > probably as well what is required for other spins to get a place on the > official dvd as well along with Gnome and KDE. > > The reason that KDE is there in the first place was probably done at the > time to calm down the community without having to remove the "default" > label and the project has evolved quite a much since then as in we have > significantly more amounts of spins then just KDE and Gnome. > > In any case Kevin K. probably can comment on what landed the KDE > distribution on the Relengs DVD and on the release blocker in the first > place. Sure. The process needs some cleaning up. But my point is that there is no confusion about the actual facts of the current situation: KDE and GNOME are considered to have equal status as far as release validation is concerned. Note that Xfce, LXDE and Sugar are all also on the DVD at present. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
