Red Hat redeploys one of its main desktop developers
A blog post from senior Red Hat developer Bastien Nocera indicates that the company is further consolidating its development efforts on desktop Linux.
The post, simply titled "New responsibilities", refers back to Red Hat's earlier decision to stop packing LibreOffice for RHEL back in June. That in turn followed the company laying off Fedora project lead Ben Cotton. Nocera isn't being laid off, merely "transferred to another team that deals with one of a list of Red Hat's priority projects."
Nocera links to one of his emails from the end of June, which lists multiple Fedora packages that he had to stop working on. Although he says that he gave less than 10 percent of his time to them, he describes some of the areas which will now be orphaned...