The vision for the Fedora Workstation

[Matthew Miller]

On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 08:26:18AM -0500, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> We fix bugs upstream so they're not in Fedora, and we fix bugs in Fedora
> so that they're not in RHEL. So the least amount of time we spend on
> RHEL bugs means that the community/upstream versions are of better quality.
> 
> The RHEL bugs obviously do take precedence, but that doesn't mean it
> is what we spend most of our time on.

Which is good overall -- I'm glad Red Hat pays people to work on upstreams.

It raises a question about this particular resourcing side of the argument,
though. Given that upstream and RHEL take some of the focus, the number of
total full-time-equivalents working on Gnome in Fedora is smaller
than the total number of people employed. It's still a significant number,
but given that there are multiple desktops with vibrant upstreams, it's not
really fair to count in any other way. The downstream work is the same way:
that will happen regardless of what Fedora does. So, counted that way, I
don't think it's really an overwhelming case.

Unless Red Hat desktop team is interested in shifting some of its focus to
Fedora itself. From what Christian says, I think that actually *is* the case
-- if Gnome is chosen as the Fedora Workstation desktop, that means more
people given time to work on that specifically. Right?

Of course Red Hat is also are interested in Fedora as supporting other
upstream projects Red Hat cares about, but that's a separate thing.

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