[Ambassadors] Freemedia + Unity Re-Spins, Thoughts?

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

Frank Murphy wrote:
> But in the interim, they should work as a pure "update" disk\stick
> whatever.  I will try liaise with the Unity ppl,
> see what sort of feedback they have had, re the re-spins.
> 

I'm both the composer of the Fedora Unity Re-Spins, as well as an 
Ambassador to the Fedora Project, like lots of the people within Fedora 
Unity, so I'll be watching this thread as well ;-)

The feedback on Fedora Unity Re-Spins vary;

Some people are very, very much appreciative to the fixes that are in 
the Fedora Unity Re-Spins, because they enable them to install or deploy 
Fedora in a way that turned out to not be possible with GA media 
(General Availability media). Things that are fixed in the Fedora Unity 
Re-Spins may vary from i586 hardware compatibility, to simple fixes in 
pykickstart that simply needed to be during the media compose.

Some people come in #fedora-unity on FreeNode or log in to 
bugs.fedoraunity.org explicitly requesting we fix a certain issue with 
the next release of our Re-Spins, which, if we find their use-case 
appealing and if we think we can fix it (and test the fix), we'll 
happily do.

Some people come in #fedora-unity or mail us requesting when the next 
Re-Spin is to be released, and/or whether we are planning on doing a 
Re-Spin for a given Fedora release any time soon.

Needless to say, the Fedora Unity Re-Spins are often much anticipated 
for by the community, as well as utilized a great deal (we see thousands 
of downloads a month).

This, for Fedora Unity at least, are the reasons, amongst others, we 
think make it very much worth our efforts in creating and testing and 
distributing the Re-Spins. Whether it is something the FreeMedia program 
wishes to adopt when distributing Fedora amongst those that request Free 
Media, is up to you ;-)

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen
-kanarip