The vision for the Fedora Workstation

[Matthew Miller]

On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 11:43:00PM +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
> Ok so here is were my thought process differs from those driving the
> WG and the .next effort, fesco, board etc.
> 
> From my perspective people are looking at this entirely wrong since
> as I see it our first and foremost target audience for the project
> is the individual that *contributes back* and as such we should not
> be looking into "number of downloads" or "IP connections" we should
> be monitoring how many people join/leave our project and *contribute
> back*.

So, actually... while I think you're overly dramatic in your colorful
dismissal of regular users who aren't making noticable contributions back, I
mostly agree with you. Metrics on contributors and contributions are
probably the best we have -- they're about something I think we all agree to
be important, and as a bonus they're probably a lot easier to collect. This
is the wrong list to be discussing the details of that, though.

So back on topic:

It was certainly my personal, original thought that Fedora Workstation would
focus mostly on our contributor base. However, a significant portion of that
contributor base thinks that it's also important to make something for other
people to use, not just be inward facing. That's a completely reasonable
(even commendable) position, and I'm happy to support it, even though it
isn't exactly what I'd have come up with myself.


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