Graphical Distribution Upgrades

[Michael Catanzaro]

On Wed, 2015-04-08 at 09:52 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Is this really a good use of development resources?  I mean, 
> really—if
> developers are the primary user group, is it unreasonable to expect
> that they will use a shell once or twice per year to perform the 
> upgrades?

Even if we only cared about developers, I would say that I do not 
expect developers to use the terminal or to know that fedup exists. 
But this is the beginning of the PRD we agreed on:

"We want to create a stable, integrated, polished and user friendly 
system that can appeal to a wide general audience. The Fedora 
Workstation working group will have a special focus on providing a 
platform for development of various types of applications."

Developers are a "special focus" and that warrants making some 
decisions that we wouldn't otherwise, e.g. I'm interested in 
installing more command-line development tools like gcc by default. 
But it would be a mistake to take this so far that we compromise user-
friendliness or our appeal to a "wide, general audience." That's one 
of the reasons that developers are using Macs instead of Fedora, after 
all.

Michael