Re: Summary of accepted Fedora 20 Changes - week 30

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On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 05:09:54PM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> On 25 July 2013 16:59, Billy Crook <billycrook@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Bastien Nocera <bnocera@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Given the amount of time that he spent on the mailing-list fighting for those features, then it looks like a waste of time, that work has been done.
> >
> > Unfeatures technically.  He wanted to remove features from the Default
> > spin.   Subtracting functionality is not a feature.  He wanted an
> > unfeature.
> >
> 
> No he wanted out of the default install. We have a badly defined
> naming scheme which is causing confusion:
> 
> default install -> what you get when you put the DVD in and do a click
> through install.
> default spin -> The GNOME desktop livecd.
> 
> Spins are managed by their respective "teams":
> default has been GNOME and managed by GNOME sig
> kde is managed by KDE sig
> xfce is managed by XFCE sig
> etc etc
> 
> So I would say that the GNOME team is within its rights in managing
> its spin. Whether it is named default etc is someone else's problem.
> 
This has come up before and I think it's just plain unclear :-(

The problem is that the desktop spin and the default spin are kinda two
different roles but they are occupied by the same Product.  In browsing old
tickets, I see some times when fesco has decided the default spin didn't
have to do what other other things did and sometimes when fesco said they
did.  AFAICS, there's been no generalized policy put into place in regards
to this.  So it's something that is decided on in every case where it comes
up.

I don't think anyone thought they were doing anything wrong by making the
change in the desktop spin but because the desktop spin has more than one
owner, I've sent it back to FESCo to vote on whether allowing this change
there is something we intended or not.

(/me notes that if mattdm's Ring 1 was defined, this might be somewhat
easier to decide upon.  If sendmail was in Ring 1 it would be an expected
part of the Fedora Platform.  Anything general purpose and carrying the name
Fedora would probably have to carry it as well.  If sendmail was in Ring 2,
it probably would be fine to choose whether to install it or not as it
wasn't a guaranteed part of the BaseOS. [You could also
s@sendmail@/usr/bin/sendmail@ in that analysis if you so chose])

-Toshio

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