On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 15:44 -0400, Jon Masters wrote:
Sadly enough, this means that a shiny Ubuntu installer is to the whole distribution what GNOME shell is to the GNOME project. It doesn't matter if you've got a lot of bells and whistles underneath, or what you can do, if you don't look pretty while you do it. It's just the reality. I would venture that one of the reasons Rich sent his mail originally is that he's aware of this mentality and pointing out its effects.
You forgot to qualify the above paragraph: it doesn't matter _to a distribution reviewer_. We aren't necessarily making Fedora for distribution reviewers.