On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 4:13 AM, Máirín Duffy <du...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > On 01/29/2013 04:59 PM, Eric Smith wrote: >> I don't disagree with the "more research and reason" part, but the >> current default desktop has only been "our default" for four releases, >> F15 through F18. I don't recall any serious "research and reason" >> having been involved in the switch that occurred when F15 was being >> developed. As far as I can tell, it was just thrust upon us without >> much consideration as to whether it was good, bad, or indifferent. > > Actually a lot of research and reason went into GNOME 3's development > [1], That's about as relevant as "a lot of coding went into $project", which is... not a whole lot when considering which project to make the default.
> and we picked it up because we are an upstream distro [2]. GNOME isn't the only possible upstream. We picked it up at that time implicitly because it was presented as an upgrade instead of basically a new project with a new direction. > https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Design#Research.2C_testing_and_validation To save others time... the "testing and validation" part has no results on the wiki that I can see. Mirek -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
