There are only 2 people of Red Hat on the GNOME release team (team is 9 at the moment). But yeah, due to the sheer amount of manpower that Red Hat spends on mai

There are only 2 people of Red Hat on the GNOME release team (team is 9 at the moment). But yeah, due to the sheer amount of manpower that Red Hat spends on maintaining various software projects, their influence of course is pretty great. But they still have to convince the other GNOME developer community. Decisions are pretty often made in consensus, so they don't override things. Note that the blog you are linking to gets some things wrong. You have to see some things in context. E.g. a designer is of course going to have a bit of limited view. The Red Hat people on the release team sometimes "block" a decision made by other Red Hat people; seems like normal commity behaviour to me. Though of course if they all work together, their idea of the best way forward is going to be similar.