My input: Case 4: Developer in a Large Organization

[Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller]

Hi Jimmy,
First of all thank you Jimmy for providing this feedback, any help you
and others can provide to help us build the requirements list for the
various usecases is great. I will make sure to take your points with me
as part of the continued working group effort and tasklist.

Christian

On Wed, 2013-11-06 at 15:32 -0500, Jimmy Dorff wrote:
> 
> “Case 4” in the Product Description is the most important for me. The is 
> where I work in a university, but I know some commercial orgs that work 
> similarly. My developers are writing code and analyzing data. They are not 
> building or contributing to Fedora. Key tools are C, C++, python, R, 
> Matlab, Octave, plus git and svn.
> 
> We use enterprise logins (ldap + MIT krb5). Desktops are NFS clients, data 
> is stored on file servers. Desktops often have multiple displays.
> 
> Desktops are professionally managed. The level of developer admin is going 
> to vary based on the organization. Generally the developer isn’t 
> installing the workstation. Home directories are centrally stored and 
> preserved across updates.
> 
> In summary:
>   * enterprise logins (large numbers of users and groups)
>   * network filesystems (NFS, SMB, etc..)
>   * centralized network and desktop management (lots of great tools exist)
> 
> Cheers,
> Jimmy