Package List Discussion

[Araluen]

On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 16:09 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 8:20 AM, Kalev Lember <kalevlember at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 06/04/2014 01:52 PM, Josh Boyer wrote:
> >> I disagree.  We aren't targeting people that find virtualization to be
> >> a confusing concept.  Workstation is targeting developers and students
> >> with a reasonable degree of technical competence.  I believe working
> >> virt out of the box should be installed.
> >
> > No, sorry, you might have misunderstood the PRD. We aren't producing a
> > distro only for developers. We are still producing a general purpose OS
> > but we are focusing our own development effort more on making it easier
> > to use Workstation for development.
> 
> There's nothing in what I said that precludes a general purpose OS.
> On the contrary, it's required for anything above and beyond that.
> 
> > We had this discussion already when approving the PRD. There were
> > concerns that people might misunderstand the wording there to mean that
> > we are no longer supporting the general desktop user. No; the PRD only
> > enumerates areas we'll give special focus during development and is not
> > meant to say that those are the only supported use cases.
> 
> And this is where you and I differ.  I consider virtualization an
> important enough thing for the areas we're giving special focus to be
> installed by default.  You, apparently, do not.  That's a difference
> of opinion between you and I, not a fundamental misunderstanding of
> the overall goal on my part.
> 
> If you would like, we could certainly put this to a vote in the WG.  I
> may very well be alone in my desire for virt to work out of the box.
> If we could actually get the WG to vote on it, I'll be happy to shut
> up either way.  I'm interested in making progress, not endless
> debates.
> 
> > It is still a general purpose desktop distro.
> 
> Again, nothing I've said would imply general functionality doesn't work.
> 
> > Quoting from the Workstation PRD:
> >
> >   "We want to create a stable, integrated, polished and user friendly
> >    system that can appeal to a wide general audience. /.../ This PRD is
> >    not meant to be an exhaustive list of what potential users can or
> >    will use the Fedora Workstation for, but rather outline the
> >    Workstation working groups development priorities and overall goals."
> >
> > ... and goes on to explain that one of those development priorities is
> > to be attractive to developers.
> >
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Workstation/Workstation_PRD
> 
> You don't need to point me to the wiki page I created.
> 
> josh

Gee, you people are polite.
I've just migrated from the Lizard, and what goes on there.......i
ditched the OS
Cheers, Mark
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