On Friday, 11 April 2025 at 10:01, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: [...] > Yes, that sounds like an accurate description of how things would have gone, > had somebody started the process! But it seems that this window has > closed already, because of the decision to release F42 on Thursday. Reverting > the changes in Gnome would have required a respinning of the release > images and a delay of the release. I don't think we'd want to do that.
An unapproved major change was done and yes, that is what should be done. > But even apart from that, even if this was raised sooner, > I would be against such a big change so late in the process anyway. Wait, what?! The unapproved change must be reverted as soon as possible. Otherwise the Change process becomes a joke. The big change was done without approval, so it doesn't matter if it was noticed late or not. > Two options have been floated: > - a separate gdm-x11 package: certainly an option, but a bit of work, > and upstream might drop the X11 code anyway. > - switching to a different login manager. I think this option is better > and has better long-term prospects. Folks who use X11 should make > a recommendation what to switch to. No and no. GDM maintainer must take responsibility, even if applying the unapproved change was unintentional, and revert it now. Regards, Dominik -- Fedora https://fedoraproject.org Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic. -- from "The Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
