Workstation FESCo summary - draft

[Paul W. Frields]

On Fri, May 08, 2015 at 01:50:02PM -0700, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> "Pushing new Wayland technology, now used in the login screen, and
> also quite usable in user sessions as an option"
> 
> Wayland doesn't work on one of my machines
> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1200581) and I can't find
> documentation on how to set display size on the other. "Quite usable"
> is a bit optimistinc

"Usable" != "works on every machine." There are too many permutations
to guarantee that.  But after some surveys of other reviews and user
reports I'm resetting this to "making progress."

> "To fully succeed, we must also increase the diversity of Fedora
> release bits, which is not just a Workstation effort. "
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean by "diversity" here. But if it implies a
> lack of focus on shipping stuff that works for a large class of users
> I'm against it. ;-)

What makes you think I'm implying that?

This is about being able to release in new formats in the future where
they make sense, like Atomic trees.

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