Am 04.02.2014 11:57, schrieb Jóhann B. Guðmundsson: > On 02/04/2014 10:39 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 12:16:16PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: >>> If we decide the alternative desktops are a valuable part of Fedora - >>> which seems to be a popular opinion - how do we fit them into a >>> Product-based conception of Fedora? >>> >>> We can have a KDE Product, and an Xfce Product, and an LXDE Product, >>> but...at that point haven't we just re-invented spins? It doesn't seem >>> to quite work with the Product conception. >> I would like to see Products defined by the problem space that they are >> aimed at rather than the technology they're based on. That is, a "Fedora >> Scientific Desktop" is a lot more compelling to me than "Fedora KDE" -- at >> least as a product. But I don't think there's anything wrong with Fedora KDE >> as either a spin or something else. >> >> For that matter, there could be a "Fedora GNOME" spin distinct from the >> Fedora Workstation product, if there were people really keen to work on it, >> perhap as a showcase of upstream technology without worrying about the >> concerns of the Fedora Workstation WG's particular area of focus. (With >> "people keen to work on it" as the really key phrase.) > > But you cannot overlap products as in you cannot have a "Gnome workstation and "KDE workstation" etc you cannot > have an "Server" product outside what is already defined in the ServerWG nor a "Cloud" product outside what is > already defined there. > > Basically what's happening here is that "default" is being applied to now three spaces which filled with Red Hat > products and elevated above community contribution just like Gnome was put above all community contributions as an > "Default". > > Do people truly really want us to move forward with this discrimination between contributions to the project? honestly going back to only a install DVD with a sane user-UI and dedicate all the time wasted for the spin/products/discrimination discussions for documentations, screenshots and howtos would have more benefit for Fedora there is nothing you can't setup with the "one fits all" DVD or even with a slim network install if you only knew what to install and how to configure
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