Red Hat Engineer plans for Fedora Workstation 24

[kendell clark]

hi
I agree with michael. A11y is critical. Wayland does for the most part
work with orca. There are a couple of issues with qt applications which
joanmeri and I are attempting to track down but considering the fact
that it's an entirely new protocol, I'm amazed it's working as good as
it is.
Thanks
Kendell clark


On 10/26/2015 02:16 PM, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-10-26 at 13:57 -0400, Christian Schaller wrote:
>> Codecs
>> ------------
>> H264 - I expect us to have sorted through our Koji changes and have
>> this ready for F24, unless we suddenly start blocking on Cisco. Wim
>> Taymans should start looking at getting Main support added at some
>> point. People involved - Kalev Lember (mclasen), Wim Taymans (Kem),
>> Kevin Fenzi (pfrields)
> 
> Are you able to say anything on how this is legally possible? Will we
> be distributing binaries built by Cisco, or will we be paying the
> maximum royalty? What about MP3 -- my understanding is that H.264
> without MP3 results in videos without sound?
> 
> This is a critical step forward for us to compete with Ubuntu.
> 
>> System Polish
>> -----------------
>> GUI system upgrade - I expect us to have operating system upgrade
>> available during the Fedora 23 lifecycle in GNOME Software, enabling
>> people to upgrade from Fedora 23 to Fedora 24 through GNOME Software.
>> People involved - Richard Hughes (mclasen) and Kalev Lember
>> (mclasen).
> 
> This is also a critical step forward for us to compete with Ubuntu.
> 
>> Wayland - I expect us to be shipping Wayland as default in Fedora 24.
>> People involved (Jonas Ådahl (mclasen), Olivier Fourdan (kem)  and
>> many more.
> 
> I frankly don't expect this to happen, because my understanding is that
> there is not even so much as a plan for how to avoid a11y regressions,
> and I hope we don't switch to Wayland before that is all working
> properly. But I'd love to be proven wrong.
> 
> One more thought: we did have plans to drastically simplify Anaconda
> for F24 (e.g. by running language/keyboard selection in g-i-s in the
> live environment); will that be implemented?
> 
> Michael
>