[fab] looking at our surrent state a bit

[Greg Dekoenigsberg]

On Fri, 3 Nov 2006, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:

> I'd call what happend there "the maintainer baked it once and then
> forget about that". Give FESCo free hand to revamp "Fedora Alternatives"
> and Ill show you that the community can do better.

...

> I know. That worked. Fedora could be so much better and ahead of our
> competitors if Red Hat would help with the birth of some stuff a bit
> more. That part of the reasons why I started this thread.

...

There aren't many people in the Fedora community I trust more than I trust 
Thorsten.  He says we've got a lot of work to do in order to make Fedora 
more open.  He's exactly right.

We've got a lot of work to do inside the fenceline, though.  Honestly, a 
lot of that work requires the disentanglement of Fedora and RHEL -- we 
need the ability to innovate freely in Fedora without adversely impacting 
RHEL.  We didn't really have that opportunity in the FC6 timeframe.

But now we do.

Our real goal: to figure out how to open Core to community developers. 
There.  I said it.  But it's going to take some *extremely* heavy lifting.

I know it's hard to hear "we're working on it," and you can only hear that 
so many times.  But Max, Bill and I will be flying up to Boston and 
spending several days talking through internal issues around Fedora with 
the other engineers.  The goal: a proposal for a community roadmap for 
FC7, which we will then present to community folks for additional 
guidance.  I'd like to see something presented on this list by November 
15th.

--g

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