RFC: Fedora revamp proposal

[Mark Bidewell]

On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 10:03 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com>wrote:

> So just a couple of notes on the proposal:
>
> It's phrased in very technical terms here - probably a wise choice - but I
> think it's worth noting one of the angles we took in discussing it in
> person at FUDCon is that it has the potential to contribute to the more
> general idea of making Fedora more flexible in terms of what we can build
> and release. It has the effect of giving us a defined 'core' of
> functionality on top of which we could build various things. It would only
> be one piece of a larger puzzle here - things like better image building
> tools and Formulas are part of the same puzzle - but it's an element I was
> quite interested in.
>
> Also, I recall the in-person discussions making it clearer that this plan
> is pretty strongly dependent on automated testing. This has been discussed
> somewhat in the follow-ups, but to make sure it's very clear, my reading of
> the proposal is that it would require substantially more sophisticated and
> reliable tests than we currently have in AutoQA, and we'd need development
> resources - either RH paid, or volunteer - to build AutoQA up to the point
> where it could support this plan without causing unnecessary disruption.
>
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Are there any records of these FUDCon discussions? Creating defined core of
functionality seems like it could solve several problems.  I would be
curious as to what ideas we proposed on that.

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