Fedora Board Strategic Working Group

[Max Spevack]

On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Paul W. Frields wrote:

>> I have always thought that a "Fedora Crazy Experimental" spin -- 
>> which allows folks who want to try to build an OS without a firewall, 
>> or with some crazy-different version of a critical package -- and 
>> came with tons of warning lights and a marketing drive that 
>> associated it with the truly bleeding-edge, 
>> playing-with-a-revoluntionary-idea kinds of people could lead to some 
>> interesting proof of concepts, or could be used as a way to make a 
>> hypothetical and flame-ridden argument on fedora-devel-list into 
>> something that is tangible and can be evaluated for real, is a 
>> valuable sort of thing.
>
> As a spin, this seems problematic to me.  Even though we produce a ton 
> of written material already for every release, with the dedicated 
> efforts of a great group of people in the Fedora Marketing and 
> Documentation teams as well as the contributors who help and support 
> them, there are lots of people who don't read important information 
> about the general release.  If a release like this changed some 
> behavior in a critical package like the kernel, glibc, or yum, it 
> could potentially create some significant issues for triagers, 
> developers, and maintainers.
>
> No reason this couldn't be done as a Fedora Remix, however.

I mixed up my terms.  The sentiment still stands.  :)

--Max