jmbuser

In my opinion, a very positive development for the Fedora community is the merger of the Core and Extras repositories. My take on this is that Fedora is maturing to the point where the volunteer community is assuming the bulk of the effort for the building and maintaining of the Fedora packages. This certainly is not meant to take away from the valuable contributions made by Red Hat employees.

The Fedora user gains the advantage of installing the desktop and applications of his or her choice. GNOME fans can keep using GNOME, KDE fans get a more complete implementation of KDE. I personally use both, as well as Xfce for my memory-challenged, i586-class laptop. Of course, you can mix-and-match the apps of your choice.

Right now, the Desktop User Guide is rather narrowly focused on the default GNOME desktop and default apps, as one well-known reviewer has very strongly pointed out. The current DUG is written for Fedora Core 6 and I agree with its present scope.

The challenge for the Fedora Docs Project team is to expand the Desktop User Guide and other documents to encompass the greater choice this merger provides.

Greater coverage of KDE and, in my opinion, Xfce, should be given. We have a growing group of enthusiastic volunteers in the Fedora Docs team. There's always room for more, including multilingual individuals who would like to translate docs into another language.

If you would like to join the Fedora Docs team, please see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/NewWriters.