New proposed Strategy Document

[Elfy]

On 06/11/13 12:31, Richard Elkins wrote:
> On 11/06/2013 04:14 AM, Pasi Lallinaho wrote:
>> On 05/11/13 15:31, Elfy wrote:
>>> On 05/11/13 12:45, Pasi Lallinaho wrote:
>>>> Hello all community members,
>>>>
>>>> the new proposed Strategy Document for reviewing and feedback is in a
>>>> branch here:
>>>> https://code.launchpad.net/~knome/+junk/xubuntu-strategy-document-rewrite-1311
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The new version has a few huge changes:
>>>>       * The XPL voting method is changed; only team members can vote
>>>>       * Process descriptions are removed and moved to the wiki [1]
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Pasi
>>>>
>>>> P.S. Thanks Elizabeth for cleaning up the processes with me!
>>>>
>>>> [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Processes
>>>>
>>> I'm happy with that.
>>>
>>> Except
>>>
>>>   * leafpad (Simple text editor)
>>>
>>> Should that not be mousepad now?
>>>
>>> Elfy
>>>
>> Yep.
>>
> Both leafpad and mousepad are better than Windows Notepad but they're
> not the best choice for engineers.  For the same reason that developers
> install Notepad++ on Windows, I would guess that the majority install
> Gnome Edit (gedit) on Linux and Unix.
>
> So, the choice of default text editor should be based on the target
> audience for the release which has evolved since the first 'buntu, quite
> a bit.  Who is it nowadays?
>
> Richard
>
>
I'd assume not developers ;)

I'm certainly not one - and while I used gedit to be able to have tabs - 
mousepad has that, so is one less thing I install to my usual system here.

Elfy

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