Fedora Plasma Product, feedback please

[Jaroslav Reznik]

----- Original Message -----
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 05:05:37AM -0400, Christian Schaller wrote:
> > As a sidenote, in the FESCO notes there was a suggestion to the board to
> > make a KDE spin blocking once we switch to the Products releases. I
> > strongly object to this idea. It undermines the whole idea of having the
> > product focus in the first place and creates a precedent for spins being
> > more than unofficial community efforts to highlight various technologies
> > and ideas. There is a proper plan and effort underway now in Fedora with
> > the 3 products effort, lets stay the course and not water things down to a
> > level where we are basically back to the bad old days.
> 
> I think we can solve this by working more on what it means to be "blocking".
> In the ideal future, I would like to get to the point where nothing is
> blocking, because:
> 
>   a) We have continuous integration and testing such that we could ship at
>      any time if we decided to.
>   b) we loosen up the ability to ship different parts at different times
>      (even if mostly coordinated), so if some bug or upcoming new feature
>      point in Cloud means we're not ready until a couple of weeks after the
>      base release, it doesn't hold up Workstation. Remixes can already do
>      this _outside_ of the project and we could allow ourselves that luxury
>      inside too.
> 
> A will take a lot of work, and B will take a lot of coordination and
> planning, but I think we can eventually get there. In the meantime, I'm okay
> with drawing the lines of what blocks the release like an asymmetrical
> puzzle piece rather than a perfect regular polygon. It's a compromise, but I
> don't think it's "going back to the bad old days" in the larger context.

+1

There's a lot of work ahead of us to make Fedora agile to fulfil this vision,
so focus on it - it can open more doors and give us more options in the 
future how to deal with releases, blocking stuff, products, spins, remixes
etc.

Jaroslav

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