#6312: Make Multidesktop ISO for Fedora Ambassadors North America ------------------------------+----------------------- Reporter: nb | Owner: rel-eng@… Type: task | Status: new Milestone: Fedora 23 Final | Component: other Resolution: | Keywords: Blocked By: | Blocking: ------------------------------+-----------------------
Comment (by mattdm):
I'm not opposed to having this media for where it's appropriate/useful for advancing Fedora, but I have some concerns.
First, it seems out-of-alignment with the overall Fedora marketing strategy, where we want to advance based on our strengths in certain areas. We want to _really_ succeed in those areas and then grow outward from there, and I'd really like Ambassadors' efforts to be centered around that.
I know those areas — developer desktop, easy-deploy server, cloud computing — aren't everything to all audiences Ambassadors address, so "there's more to Fedora!" is important too, but it'd _also_ be nice to have Ambassadors largely focused on promoting our collective strategy. Especially when we're spending collective money.
We don't even _have_ a "GNOME (Desktop)" spin; Fedora Workstation is based on GNOME, but that's not the same thing. Is there a plan here to create one, or is the idea for Fedora Workstation to stand in as "GNOME Desktop"? I'm concerned about, as it confuses the message we're working to build around Fedora Workstation as having its own identity.
Continuing along those lines, Fedora in general doesn't work by telling people to do things. There have been changes in the release engineering infrastructure, and I'm not sure that doing this is as easy as pushing a button and waiting. Are there people interested in helping with any new releng changes that are needed? And after media is produced, are there plans for QA for all of these environments? Since this was dropped from QA's radar, I'd really hate for this to go out with our name on it and have some embarrassing flaw.