Proposal for the new Fedora Project

[Mike McGrath]

On Fri, 1 Oct 2010, Jesse Keating wrote:

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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.
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> >> > 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.
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> 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?
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That shift would work just like the ASF works now perhaps with more focus
on interoperability.  We'd need project managers that manage each product,
coordinate with other project managers.  We'd turn Fedora into a community
software factory.  That stuff still needs to be packaged, but not as many
people will be installing them.

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

Build framework, build apps for that framework.  Email, communication.
Build an online writer app, spreadsheet, etc.  Get buy-in from other
major communities (that's important).

	-Mike