Where are we going? (Not a rant)

[Paulo César Pereira de Andrade]

2012/12/7 Tomas Radej <tradej at redhat.com>:

> The threat for Fedora is that even in the FOSS, there is competition.
> Distros are competing for users - users that give back, users that
> report bugs, or users that are or become maintainers and developers.
> When the overwhelming response to Fedora is "Hey, they've got some neat
> features, but I need it to work, so that's why I'm using XYZ instead",
> the user/dev base is going to wither and move elsewhere.

  I believe one of the major issues is some lack of proper usability tests.
To get it done by volunteers, I would suggest something like a very simple
way to setup a VM and test there. Personally, I test, but not consistently
neither reporting bugs, etc, several distros in VirtualBox, because it is
very easy to setup after downloading the install ISO.

  I am also running rawhide in my main desktop at home. Example of my
life as a rawhide user for almost one year:

[non booting rawhide kernels and now breaking last booting kernel]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=827734
[after upgrading to rawhide, fedora fails to boot into installed system]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=789285

  It is ok to have some things broken for a small window of time in
the development branch, not good if one ends up with 3 consecutive
non booting kernel updates of course, but anyway, for most contributors
it is better to run rawhide in a VM, but the more stable it is kept, the
better, because if things get too broken, people will give up in reporting
and triaging problems.

Paulo