Defining the target audience (Was Re: low-hanging fruit)

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Fri Aug 17 20:01:48 UTC 2007


On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 03:53:30PM -0400, Christopher Aillon wrote:
 > Dave Jones wrote:
 > > There's a difference between excluding people who are already onboard
 > > with Fedora, and those who aren't.  Gentoo users would fall into the
 > > latter.
 > > 
 > > "Hey this used to work, now it doesn't" is what leads people to abandon
 > > distros and go looking for one that does what they came to expect.
 > 
 > But it still will work the way they want.  This is a targeted spin which 
 > has not existed before.

Ok, I hadn't realised this.  I just went back and skimmed the whole
thread, and afaics this wasn't mentioned anywhere other than I guess
in the meeting (that I wasn't around for).

	Dave

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