Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:37:29 -0400, Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> said: > > >> Hi, I'm Joey Hess and I decided that Debian's default desktop is > >> gnome. How was I able to make this decision? DamnifIknow. > > As RMS would say on emacs-dev; a decision like this should be > made by polling the suers (not a vote -- polling them for opinions > _and_ reasons. > > The TC would have been equally wrong body to make this decision. And yet if the d-i team / debian-cd team / developers at large had a contentious fight about this, the TC would be the ones stuck with the final decision. (FWIW, I obviously did listen to users to a certian extent when making this decision, and since I reluctantly "own" the issue, I continue to have to listen to users as well as try to keep up with things like kde 4, to make sure that we're still doing *a* (not *the*) right thing. This includes reading all posts on debian-user, scanning forums.debian.net, reading installation reports, etc. Bleh..) -- see shy jo
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