Updated Fedora Workstation PRD draft

[Matthew Garrett]

On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 05:23:28PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 12:18:07PM -0500, Christian Schaller wrote:
> > Hi Matthew,
> > Because they are not primarily developing desktop applications? Or are developing cross platform applications?
> 
> So who's going to write the normal desktop applications for our 
> platform?

To expand on this - Fedora is the only significant distribution to use 
the full GNOME stack for our desktop apps. If we don't seek to target 
average desktop users then there's no incentive for developers to target 
the GNOME stack, which means there's no new and interesting desktop apps 
which means there's no incentive for average desktop users to run 
Fedora. Saying that we won't actively discourage average desktop users 
from running Fedora is a copout - the inevitable consequence is that 
average desktop users will stop running Fedora because there's nothing 
for them to use there.

Ignoring non-developers does nothing to advance Freedom. It's likely to 
shrink our community, so it's not clear that it's doing anything for 
Friends. I'd argue that any PRD should be fundamentally based on the 
four foundations, and I'd like to see a strong justification for how 
Workstation is doing so.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org