On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 5:30 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"
<johannbg(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 02/03/2014 04:08 PM, Christian Schaller wrote:
>
> Well first of all I have not advocated for banning any desktops from
> Fedora,
> this discussion is not about deleting packages from the Fedora repository.
> And I realize that some users will make the choice to use something else
> than our default setup.
>
> But that doesn't invalidate the value of having a default, focusing
> development
> resources on the default and expecting any alternative solutions to be
> able to
> productively co-exist with the default. Because a lot of end users
> couldn't care
> less about the 10 different desktops available, they just want something
> that works
> with their hardware and software. And if we know the top 10 feature
> requests we have a
> realistic chance of doing something about it as we don't have to consider
> trying to do it 10
> places or work around 10 sets of different desktop quirks and bugs.
>
> To me this is a cornerstone of what the products are meant to be about,
> trying to do active
> development of an identified product as opposed to just passively
> packaging whatever a
> series of upstreams happens to provide.
You do realize we are an distribution that represents "upstream" in the
larger GNU/Linux eco system and as such our "target users" are users that
participate and contribute *back* to the community not the "consuming end
user" we leave those for ubuntu.
Yes because a distribution that has no users other then its own
developers is the best way to attract contributors.
Note: It isn't.