Proposal for the new Fedora Project

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Fri Oct 1 16:02:37 UTC 2010


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On 10/1/10 9:00 AM, Mike McGrath wrote:
>> I'm curios what you actually expect Fedora to do here.  By and large
>> > Fedora is a group of people who take upstream work and manipulate it
>> > into packages for our distribution.  Only a small minority do any of the
>> > upstream work itself, and even then that is directed by upstream
>> > projects, not by Fedora.
>> >
>> > So I'm curious, what is it you want us to do?  How can our community of
>> > packagers.. er.. package the web?
>> >
> I'm proposing we do a multi-year shift from being a community of packagers
> to a community of developers.  That way, at least, we control our own
> destiny.  As it is now, upstream does where upstream is.. well upstream.

But what does that mean?  How do we "shift" to being a community of
developers?  Even if we were a community of developers, does that mean
that Fedora should have say and control over what projects get "hosted"
and what they do and focus on?

I'm curious, what are the actual tangible goals we can work on?

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Jesse Keating
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