----- Original Message -----
From: "Neal Gompa" <ngompa13(a)gmail.com>
To: "Pavel Valena" <pvalena(a)redhat.com>
Cc: developer-portal(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
Sent: Thursday, November 2, 2017 1:24:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Developer-portal] FDP release and statistics 10/2017: C# IDEs and Mono
updates; Python, Docker and
Haskell fixes
On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 8:04 AM, Pavel Valena <pvalena(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> new Fedora Developer Portal release is prepared on staging and will be
> deployed tomorrow by EOD.
>
> New and updated content
> - C#: IDEs page[1] by Radka Janek <radka.janek(a)redhat.com>
> and Mickael Istria <mistria(a)redhat.com>
<snip/>
>
Why are we referencing JetBrains' proprietary Rider in our developer
documentation? It was already a bit of a stretch with Visual Studio
Just a note: It's not a documentation[1] and it's not meant to be in any way.
Aimed on Developers, solely, and addressing their needs[2].
Code, given that literally no one is working on bringing that into
Fedora (but at least it is open source), but this is straight-up
advocating for nonfree software, which entirely _not the point_ of
Fedora Developer site.
Neal, the not-being-in-Fedora is actually acceptable on Developer Portal. The portal aims
to give guidance[1] for developers *on* Fedora, not necessarily contributing *to*
Fedora[3] (or along its guidelines).
Regarding that, I think About page[2] ought be fixed to reflect that more clearly (any
volunteers? :)).
From IDEs page Summary:
"""What would we recommend? JetBrains Rider is the best C# IDE, however it
is not open source."""
I do, however, agree that *recommended* apps or tooling should be the Open Source ones.
Even though It's not forbidden AFAIK.
Thank you for your feedback!
[1]
http://developer-portal.github.io/contributing/write-introduction.html
[2]
https://developer.stg.fedoraproject.org/about.html
[3]
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Websites/Developer#Target_Audience
--
Radko, can you please change the order of paragraphs to reflect Fedoras' stand-point,
and recommend an Open-Source alternative? I'd also like the JetBrains paragraph to
stress that the software is proprietary and closed-source.
Websites' deploment is postponed until this is resolved. Alternatively, I can delete
the paragraph from resulting web page.
Regards,
Pavel Valena
Associate Software Engineer, Red Hat
Brno, Czech Republic