On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:46:30 -0600
Matt Domsch <matt(a)domsch.com> wrote:
As you may be aware, the Fedora Project Board is trying to set a
more
clear vision for what Fedora is, and should be going forward. One
aspect of this conversation is Fedora's target audience. As Spins and
Remixes specifically seek to use Fedora to reach a particular audience
or cater to specific use cases, we seek your input to help guide our
thinking.
Your responses to these questions would be appreciated. Fellow Board
member Colin Walters and I have agreed to poll the Spins SIG and
report back to the Strategic Working Group and the Board as a whole.
Board-level Question:
Can Spins/SIGS or Fedora remixes define their own target audience?
I would think so.
Background
The Board has been working on defining a target audience for
Fedora. In response to this, some people feel that Fedora should allow
sub-groups to define their own target audience. Or even more strongly
that Spins/SIGs should be the only groups defining target audience; in
other words, the Board should not be defining one. An example mail
supporting this position is this mail from Toshio [1].
However, the potential conflict between a Board target audience and a
SIG target audience is still theoretical. No SIG appears to have
explicitly disagreed with the "working" target audience proposal.
Possible Solutions
1. Board sets target audience broadly, spins tailor to a subset
thereof.
This would stifle a spin that had a audience that happened to be
outside whatever the target was set to, for no real gain, IMHO.
2. Board sets target audience broadly, spins tailor to either a
subset thereof, or to additional audiences outside that scope so
long as there are no conflicts.
I perfer this one.
3. Board does not set target audience, leaves it to each Spin to
set their specific target audience.
1. requires spins to be much more than consumers of Fedora
content.
2. audience of some spins may overlap. That's OK.
3. audience of some spins may technically conflict. How to
resolve conflicts? Spins SIG -> FESCo -> Board.
I guess this one is ok too.
As members of the Spins SIG, how do you view the above, and how
would
you like to see Spins interact with the larger Project with respect to
defining target audiences?
Each spin should define their audience. It shouldn't be anything
opposed to Fedora's goals (ie, should be free software, etc).
Board-level Question:
Can Spins/SIGS or Fedora remixes change the code enough to meet their
goals?
Sure.
Background
In the present situation, Spins must take all of their content from
the official Fedora repositories. Remixes may take content from
wherever, and modify as they see fit, but may not use the primary
Fedora trademarks.
Questions for Spins and the Spins SIG
Given the present situation:
1. Has any Spin found the present situation unduly restrictive?
1. If so, how specifically?
Not here.
2. Has any Spin found they cannot address their target audience
properly?
1. If so, in what way?
2. Is the root problem that all packages must be in the
official repositories?
Not here.
3. How are you addressing this today?
4. How would you like to address this in the future?
5. Are the resources you would need readily available?
1. If not, what would you need to properly address this?
6. Is the transition from "Spin" to "Remix" onerous?
1. If so, what can be done to make it less so?
I don't do any remixes, and I think anything called Fedora should use
it's pool of packages.
In the event of a conflict between spins/groups, they should discuss a
technical solution, if none can be worked out they can bring it to
fesco, if nothing can happen there it can be taken to the Board. I
think the number of such cases is very small and not worth worrying
about. :)
kevin