Les Mikesell wrote:
Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Who picks the defaults and why?
People who build the distribution.
I haven't seen any community poll or
feedback mechanism for what the most people would prefer as the default.
Community != democracy. Fedora in particular is more of a meritocratic
system.
What does that mean in terms of equivalent systems like desktop
environments? Does something 'invented here' automatically assume more
merit than someone else's project? Or does the guy doing the work of
editing the file get his choice regardless of the effect on end users?
It means that developers who are involved with the project more would
pick the choices that based on their development focus and expertise
among one of the parameters.
Fedora developers who are focusing on KDE have their own special
interest group that has weekly meetings and have their own spin of
Fedora that is available as part of the latest release.
With Fedora 7, all the tools that the project uses to go from source to
release is available publicly and you can create your own custom spins,
mix and match packages from Fedora and other sources so you aren't bound
to what the project chooses. Have fun.
Rahul
