<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/20/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Andrew Overholt</b> <<a href="mailto:overholt@redhat.com">overholt@redhat.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 12:43 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:<br>> The thing I would keep in mind is that I see these three very<br>> different kinds of developers that are probably fairly representative:<br><br>Yeah, I realize that we may soon end back up at Fedora Everything.
</blockquote><div><br>But that doesn't mean that there's nothing to do besides just shipping a bunch of bits =)<br>For example, what if out of the box, in fact when you first log into the session:<br><br>* A local Apache instance is running and it's easy to configure (getting sudo by default, maybe even have a button on the desktop to open httpd config then reload it)
<br>* Eclipse is already open to a Ruby file<br>* The system includes an application to easily transfer those bits to a server provider<br><br>Or maybe instead of this, you define that instead of hacking the local system, you're by default running a Fedora Xen image (with appropriate NFS/whatever setup) so that deploying your app on a server running Xen is super easy.
<br><br>A totally different issue to tackle would be fixing the search-for-software problem. Right now Fedora has a huge amount of stuff and the yum/pirut search isn't very good (search is a really hard problem). I just searched for "Ruby on rails" and it returned python-elixr. I can't even seem to find rails at all? Well, maybe it's not packaged, dunno.
<br><br>Maybe instead of search like I mentioned before it would be changing the comps file (that's what defines the list of groups I think) to make more sense to this audience (i.e. "Development Tools" isn't gdb/gcc/automake because that's all audience 1 stuff, not 2/3.). And start pirut by default so after you boot the system the first time it's like "pick your poison" with respect to Java/Python/Ruby.
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