Fedora board vote and way forward

Josh Boyer jwboyer at fedoraproject.org
Fri Jan 24 12:25:10 UTC 2014


On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 6:00 AM, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 24 January 2014 10:54, Christian Schaller <cschalle at redhat.com> wrote:
>> My take away from the discussion so far is that the current board would not accept
>> anything that 'automates' access to such external software. Doesn't matter if we ship
>> the metadata on the ISO or not.
>
> Did they define 'automates'? Is there a required level of pain that we
> have to make the user go through? At the moment it's just "type chrome
> into google; click an rpm; input your password". I don't see how
> that's any harder than "type a chrome into the software center; click
> install; agree to the EULA; input your password".

As long as software center doesn't know to go directly to the site
containing the chrome repo, that is possible.

>> The only thing that I can see flying with the current board is a system that is 'blind' to what it is offering, just like
>> a web browser.
>
> So perhaps when the user clicks install, it just opens the browser to
> something like https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/ ? --
> that's perfectly doable right now, but the UX would be pretty, well,
> unusual.

Possibly.  I believe the Board would like some informative messaging
around 3rd party software, it's lack of support from Fedora, etc.

josh


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