On 04/27/2011 07:13 PM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > On 04/27/2011 06:01 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> On 04/27/2011 05:04 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: >>> On Wed, 2011-04-27 at 09:52 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >>>> On 04/27/2011 07:14 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: >>>>> On Wed, 2011-04-27 at 06:56 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>> Fedora, as a volunteeer effort, cannot. >>>>>> It's worse. I fear Fedora will loose contributors, because Fedora is not >>>>>> shipping the DE these users want. >>>>> We ship every major currently maintained desktop. Which one do you think >>>>> is missing? >>>> Adam, please. >>>> >>>> All of this thread is about "Gnome 3 not being a replacement for what >>>> used to be Gnome 2", >>> Is any other desktop more of a GNOME 2 replacement than GNOME 3? i.e., >>> would changing to another default desktop result in more continuity? I >>> would say not. >> Agreed. Things have derailed. Now the cart is stuck in the mud >> >> In other words Gnome and Fedora (Both projects dominated by a single >> enterprise) haved decided to switch their target audience. > > I'll avoid expressing my opinion of this opinion and merely ask: if you are so > passionate about the decisions the upstream projects have made why are you not > more involved in the development and decision-making that go into them? Pardon, but in case of gnome I am just an ordinary user, who is being confronted with changes in the DE he has been using for many years but now has become unusable for him. > This isn't MS or Apple - if you have an opinion express it constructively by > getting involved and doing something positive. Well, Gnome and Fedora are like MS and Apple, IMO. "Some people draw decisions and press them through at any price", > Having watched numerous people start out on a hacking career by getting involved > in Gnome and then quickly become very well respected developers (I'd name names > but I don't want to make anyone blush ;) I am already involved in many projects and don't have any time left to also get involved in to Gnome. Ralf -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
