On Thu, 2013-07-25 at 17:09 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
On 25 July 2013 16:59, Billy Crook <billycrook(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Bastien Nocera <bnocera(a)redhat.com> 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.
The tension between Desktop being a 'spin' and also being our 'default
deliverable' has never really been resolved comprehensively at a policy
level, as I see it.
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