Red Hat Engineer plans for Fedora Workstation 24

[Christian Schaller]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Catanzaro" <mcatanzaro at gnome.org>
> To: desktop at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Sent: Monday, October 26, 2015 3:16:11 PM
> Subject: Re: Red Hat Engineer plans for Fedora Workstation 24
> 
> On Mon, 2015-10-26 at 13:57 -0400, Christian Schaller wrote:
> > Codecs
> > ------------
> > H264 - I expect us to have sorted through our Koji changes and have
> > this ready for F24, unless we suddenly start blocking on Cisco. Wim
> > Taymans should start looking at getting Main support added at some
> > point. People involved - Kalev Lember (mclasen), Wim Taymans (Kem),
> > Kevin Fenzi (pfrields)
> 
> Are you able to say anything on how this is legally possible? Will we
> be distributing binaries built by Cisco, or will we be paying the
> maximum royalty? What about MP3 -- my understanding is that H.264
> without MP3 results in videos without sound?
We will not be distributing the binaries, instead we will build binaries
that are distributed by Cisco. We will pay no royalty as this will be
covered by Ciscos H264 license. 

And yes, without audio codecs videos will not have sound and we are looking
into various options there, but we have to start somewhere.

Christian

> This is a critical step forward for us to compete with Ubuntu.
> 
> > System Polish
> > -----------------
> > GUI system upgrade - I expect us to have operating system upgrade
> > available during the Fedora 23 lifecycle in GNOME Software, enabling
> > people to upgrade from Fedora 23 to Fedora 24 through GNOME Software.
> > People involved - Richard Hughes (mclasen) and Kalev Lember
> > (mclasen).
> 
> This is also a critical step forward for us to compete with Ubuntu.
> 
> > Wayland - I expect us to be shipping Wayland as default in Fedora 24.
> > People involved (Jonas Ådahl (mclasen), Olivier Fourdan (kem)  and
> > many more.
> 
> I frankly don't expect this to happen, because my understanding is that
> there is not even so much as a plan for how to avoid a11y regressions,
> and I hope we don't switch to Wayland before that is all working
> properly. But I'd love to be proven wrong.
> 
> One more thought: we did have plans to drastically simplify Anaconda
> for F24 (e.g. by running language/keyboard selection in g-i-s in the
> live environment); will that be implemented?
> 
> Michael
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