fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:04:40 -0400
Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 12:36:42PM -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > We had a distro that was pretty general purpose, worked for servers
> > and desktops and even laptops. We had a predictable schedule. We
> > had new technology thanks to rawhide. We had timely bugfixes that
> > didn't sacrifice stability, as in things didn't change out from
> > under you on a stable release. We had an ecosystem of third parties
> > that would build up stacks of newer things should a user be
> > adventurous. We had a fresh release quite often that could be
> > relied upon for at least a year. We had a culture of not just
> > throwing crap over the wall at our users, which included ourselves.
> > We had accountability when things did go awry and a honest effort
> > to disrupt the users of our stable releases as little as possible.
> > We also we're a very free distro avoiding nonfree stuff, and we
> > worked well with upstreams. We we're easy to configure, easy to
> > update, easy to install whether a single system or 400 systems in a
> > lab. We we're easy to administrate in the same scenarios.
> 
> This sounds like an excellent definition for what Fedora should be.

<aol>Me too</aol>

I would love to see us work back toward the above where we are no
longer doing so. 

kevin
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