F25 System Wide Change: Fedora Media Writer as Primary Downloadable
= Proposed System Wide Change: Fedora Media Writer as Primary Downloadable =
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/FedoraMediaWriterAsPrimaryDownload...
Change owner(s):
* Martin Briza <mbriza redhat com>
* Jiri Eischmann <eischmann redhat com>
The new Fedora Media Writer that is being finished has an overhauled,
more user friendly interface. Because USB sticks are the most common
way to install Fedora, it should be the primary download option. It
cover the whole installation media creation, it lets the user pick the
right flavor of Fedora, downloads its image, and copies it to a USB
drive.
This Change inherits the LiveUSBCreator change. Fedora Media Writer is
a rewrite of the current liveusb-creator package in C++, using most of
the functional parts of the old project and its complete user
interface.
== Detailed Description ==
Fedora Media Writer is a new tool that be much easier to use than the
existing tools (see mockups). It should cover the complete work flow
of creating an installation media. It provides information
(descriptions, screenshots,...) about flavors and variants of Fedora
to help the user to pick the right one for their usage, downloads the
ISO, and copies it to a USB flash disk. The goal of this change is to
provide this tool as the primary download option on getfedora.org and
create a mechanism to store and update information (descriptions,
screenshots,...) for the tool. This requires work not only from the
change owners, but also from other groups (websites, design,
marketing, releng teams).
== Scope ==
* Proposal owners:
- Fedora Media Writer for Linux (Copr and Flatpak coming soon, should
we create a deb package, too?)
- Fedora Media Writer for Windows
- Fedora Media Writer for Mac OS X
* Other developers:
the websites team has to update the download page to make FMW the
primary download option.
* Marketing and design:
the design team has to work with websites team on necessary changes to
the download page.
the marketing has to provide information for FMW including
descriptions and screenshots (screenshots of Workstation are currently
missing)
* QA:
adjust tests and test result matrices
* Release engineering:
- Plan the process of building Windows and MacOS packages
- Handle the distribution of the releases
- (Probably) establish a way how to pass Fedora release data to the
tool - related to the release information from Marketing
* Policies and guidelines:
The Media Writer tool is helping with new installations. Existing
installations are not affected.
* Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)
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Jan Kuřík
Platform & Fedora Program Manager
Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkynova 99/71, 612 45 Brno, Czech Republic