Debian Jesse is going to have Gnome3 as the default desktop.
The desktop re-qualification page, used to help choose which desktop will be default, has in the Jesse version a weight for systemd integration, and of course only Gnome3 does it (at least for now). This will surely make the systemd/gnome3 fanbase happy, but possibly will make others unhappy, as it [may] be seen as another step towards mono-culture, until we soon end up with all distros being redhat clones.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 24 2014, @12:02PM
Systemd and gnome are intertwined, and the gnome foundation did waste scads of contributed money on paying charming lady interns to "encourage female participation in free / open source software"...
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2143160/gnome-foundation-faces-cash-crunch-over-women-outreach-program.html [pcworld.com]