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Comment # 39
from Trevor Pott
I have to echo comment 38's thoughts. As a developer I have reservations about the inclusion of any packages that don't show a strong upstream maintenance ethos. As a systems administrator, those same concerns ring true once more; if I am to begin deployment of a Cinnamon-based Fedora to certain users, I want a package set that is so well maintained it has a reasonable chance of making it into RHEL eventually, and serving as the replacement for Gnome 2. That said, this isn't RHEL. It is Fedora. This is where new projects, package sets and so forth come to be tested out. For Cinnamon to grow, there needs be momentum. Momentum that brings Redhat-based distributions to the forefront of the upstream maintainers' minds. As a Linux user, I find Gnome 3 flat out completely unacceptable. It might as well be Unity or WinRT/Metro. I will not use it. Nor will the majority of my supported install base. This is something that we know exists as an issue; there has been strong pushback from all over the IT community and userbase against all three of these UIs. As developers, systems administrators and distribution maintainers we cannot allow ourselves to fall into the trap of telling vast swathes of our userbase “just use what we put in front of you, we know better than you.” Users are not proles; and they are not the enemy. So I argue that the inclusion of the Cinnamon package set is indeed critical. It is critical if for no other reason than that of staying true to the very core ideal of Free and Open Source Software: choice. Does the Fedora project tell it’s user base “if you want Cinnamon/Gnome 2 style desktops, go elsewhere,” thus forcing users, sysadmins and developers to become familiar with the quirks and intricacies of Debian, leaving the Red Hat ecosystem behind forever? Or does the Fedora project hold true to choice, retain these wayward users and try to grow the community support for Cinnamon, allowing this highly popular alternative to eventually become a first class citizen and move the totality of the Red Hat ecosystem forward?
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