On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 22:49 +0100, Christoph Wickert wrote:
Am Donnerstag, den 18.03.2010, 21:41 +0100 schrieb Martin Sourada:
> The design team is in charge of actually creating the new
> backgrounds and it's only our good will that we also do the packaging
> (well, we've been doing it for the past 4 or so releases, so it
> practically is our task to make the package as well).
Sorry, but whoever does the packaging clearly is in charge of notifying
the other maintainers, see
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_maintainer_responsibilities#Notify...
Well, technically speaking, it's not a change that breaks anything --
it's new package with wallpapers that's *prepared* to be the new
default. And to be fair, I'm not 100% sure, who's in charge of actually
changing the default wallpaper...
> Making it default
> is IMHO task for respective spin owners / SIG members. It's easier for
> them to read around the Alpha freeze the fedora weekly news' artwork
> section than for the design team to keep in mind which spins are using
> the default wallpaper, and which have their own and which packages needs
> the changes to use the new default.
I might be wrong but AFAIK all the spins (should) use the default
artwork. So it should be pretty easy to ping everybody. And if a spin
doesn't use the default artwork (KDE?), then there is no reason for the
spin maintainers to get notified. Or am I mistaken here?
KDE uses default artwork, just as Desktop (but they have different
infrastructure for wallpapers than gnome does...). IIRC, e.g. the
Education or Security Spins have customized wallpapers (created by the
design team as well, though :D) as defaults. But it seems sane to
suppose that "plain" spins (i.e. Desktop (Gnome), KDE, LXDE, XFCE and
such) would use the default artwork... The spin owners who have
customized wallpapers ask for a new one when they would like to change
it.
> Anyway, I'm open to suggestions how to make the process
better.
Hey, it was not that bad, at least it has worked better than last year.
In F12 I had to do the update after beta freeze, so there definitely was
an improvement. ;)
Yeah, the process is improving on our side of things as well (and
especially co-working with KDE SIG has been really smooth these past few
releases). I don't recall of us ever having such great wallpaper done
already for Alpha! Although, there seems to be lack of people commenting
on it...
Thanks,
Martin