Workstation PRD approval

[Christian Schaller]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matthew Garrett" <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org>
> To: "Discussions about development for the Fedora desktop" <desktop at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Sent: Monday, January 6, 2014 11:46:38 PM
> Subject: Re: Workstation PRD approval
> 
> On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 01:47:48PM +0100, Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller
> wrote:
> > I did rewrite part of the PRD to make it an (even more) explicit part of
> > the project, I just didn't want it in the usecase list due to the way we
> > are focusing the development effort around the desktop I don't want to
> > give a false impression of a lot of engineering resources being put into
> > specific development for 'general users'.
> 
> So who do we expect to provide those engineering resources? We seem to
> agree that those general users are, in many cases, the developers and
> enthusiasts that we expect to support, so we need to ensure that there's
> development effort put into ensuring that the desktop experience itself
> is compelling.

I expect the vast majority of our engineering resources to come from Red Hat.

> > Our 'general user' story is that we will have a solid foundation that
> > 'just works' and of course many of the applications packaged for Fedora
> > are of interest to general users.
> > But to me if we are to add 'general users' as a usecase it should be
> > accompanied by plans to write new desktop applications for Fedora that
> > would appeal to such users. For instance if we planned to write a
> > desktop Hulu app or a Facebook assistant or whatever the idea would be.
> 
> The list of use cases is supposed to define the sets of users that we'll
> consider during development. We agree that the needs of the general
> desktop user are important and have to be considered during development,
> which means that it's a supported use case. Which obviously means it
> should be enumerated in the set of use cases.

I disagree, it is meant to enumerate the areas we give special focus during development. Adding a 'catch all' usecase
like 'general users' doesn't help anyone do anything.

Christian

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