On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 22:01 -0400, Mairin Duffy wrote:
David Zeuthen wrote:
So I think this thread shows we need to figure this out; it's pretty clear that the status quo where the combined desktop livecd product is everyones responsibility (through maintaining their own packages) means that it's no-ones responsibility. We have a lot of low-hanging fruit just *waiting* to be picked up (the firewall problem is one such) but typically such work requires coordination, education and banner carrying across multiple areas both inside and outside the desktop live cd space.
I'm wondering if it would be useful to hold a Fedora-specific desktop summit type of meeting to first come up with the Fedora-specific desktop vision for the desktop livecd product, then to hash out the projects and their respective work items needed to achieve the vision (or at least a first phase of it.) Post-meeting, I think you would need at least one if not more champions for the whole project (I don't like the term dictator) to keep things moving forward and to motivate the folks working on tasks in the plan.
We did something like this for the spins site at the last FUDcon and I think the meeting was really successful in developing a common shared vision for where we wanted to project to go. I think we came into the room having some very different ideas, and walked away from the room in agreement of where we wanted to be. Although that particular project is stalled somewhat because there aren't many people working on it at the moment, because we have that shared vision we do know what we have to do (it's just an issue of time/manpower atm).
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We have a FUDCon coming up in January, in Boston where the majority of the Desktop team resides. That would be an ideal location and time for this sort of summit!