On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 11:14:41AM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > maintenance. I seriously doubt that us switching away from Gnome will > have a detectable negative impact on Gnome's rate of development, so the > average quality of our offerings on the desktop, and the quality of that > choice for all Free Software users, seems likely to improve as a result > of such a change.
Note that it likely won't have an impact on the rate of development, but it will have an impact on the QA side of things. A default environment should get more QA by that distribution. It usually also is used more and tested more by users from that distribution. The more distributions using a DE, the more bugs which are discovered. And there do are differences in distributions which either hide or expose bugs. E.g. I discover bugs in GNOME that the developers from Fedora don't notice. Same for people from other distributions. Having a varied user base is a good thing (I like *BSD). Ideally those distributions should also not lag behind too much. Finding huge issue in something which was released 6+ months ago with a decision made maybe 12 months ago makes it difficult to change things. Above only as a datapoint for discussion. I'm from GNOME and all that ;) -- Regards, Olav -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131025135406.ge7...@bkor.dhs.org
