F20 System Wide Change: ARM as primary Architecture

Matthew Garrett mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Thu Jul 11 04:13:55 UTC 2013


On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 06:08:33PM -0700, Brendan Conoboy wrote:
> On 07/10/2013 02:25 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> >No. The release blocking desktops are KDE and GNOME. This is stated in
> >the preamble of all release criteria pages, for lack of anywhere better
> >to state it.
> 
> If we were only proposing headless ARM servers for primary how would
> these criteria apply?  The changes to the build system would be the
> same with our without these desktops in either case.  Note I'm not
> asking Adam specifically; it's a question for the room.

Fedora is an operating system that supports a range of desktop 
environments, defaulting to the GNOME desktop environment. An OS that 
supports headless servers but not desktop environments might be based on 
Fedora, but it wouldn't be Fedora. As such, it wouldn't be suited to 
being a Fedora PA.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org


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