Desktop section at Fedora Developer Portal

[Bastien Nocera]

----- Original Message -----
> On Mon, 2015-11-02 at 11:22 -0500, Eric Griffith wrote:
> > Isn't DevAssist on the chopping block? Thought I saw a thread on
> > -workstation or -devel that basically said "the developers revamp the
> > GUI,
> > or we won't ship it"
> 
> That was basically my request, but it's irrelevant because the
> developers are removing the GUI anyway; it's going to be a web server
> now, which will run locally, and which you can visit in a browser. It's
> yet to be determined if we'll ship this or not; that probably depends
> on whether we put in the effort to make it possible to package a GNOME
> web app (pointing to the local page) in an RPM. Most likely not going
> to happen, but that's not set in stone.

FWIW, I think we'd do better using those fine DevAssistant developers to
work on developer tools. Off the top of my head:
- git front-end, such as gitg
- serial console, for Arduino, RPi, CHIP hacking, such as moserial
- documentation, such as devhelp, or working on JS/Python docs for g-i'ed libraries
- specialised containers/VMs/applications, for example, a way to start a "LAMP"
  front-end, as a normal user, to make local testing and remote deployment easier,
  or even testing with different versions of Apache/PHP [1]

Cheers

[1]: Doing this as a system service means that you have to admin a whole server,
permissions, SELinux, etc. It's one of the reasons why my father uses Windows
to write web apps that he eventually deploys on Linux hosts.