On Fri, 5 Nov 2021 at 17:41, Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
On Fri, Nov 05, 2021 at 10:24:22AM -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> What I'm asking is whether Fedora, as an organization, is interested
> in working with prominent vendors to determine whether there are
> barriers to publishing software for Fedora, or whether they perceive
> insufficient value in doing so. And, beyond those questions, is
> there anything we can do as an organization to help change that
> situation?
I've got thoughts! :)
1. I think we have some historical wariness of this, because a while ago, we
put in a big effort around this and it failed. See
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ISV_Special_Interest_Group, which currently
says "This page was last edited on 12 June 2010, at 22:15." (It won't in a
second, as I'm adding the {{old}} macro right now...). Former FPL Greg DeKoenigsberg
has some thoughts on why this failed, written about two years after that.
https://gregdekspeaks.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/why-the-fedora-isv-sig-nev...
After being a flatpak app maintainer for a few years, Greg's article
was well worth the reread. Flatpak has really nailed some of these
points (e.g. targeting all distros with a single build/release
process, binary dependency predictability, etc)... From an ISV
perspective Flatpak is a *much* better value for money prospect than
in-distro packaging.
--
Mat Booth
http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora