RFC: Proposal for a more agile "Fedora.next" (draft of my Flock talk)

[Matthew Miller]

On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 04:30:32PM +0200, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
> > Whenever I go to a tech meetup or talk to someone from a new startup
> > company, their developers are inevitably using a different (usually
> > proprietary) desktop OS, plus a non-Fedora distribution on their code.
> > We're being left behind and left out. It doesn't matter how
> > theoretically great we are if we end up with no users.
> How does the proposal actually improve this?  Giving various SIGs more
> freedom to manage various stacks makes neither the core nor the stacks
> automatically any more attractive to anyone.  (Even allowing stacks to
> evolve separately from the core and more in tune with upstream
> releases doesn't make the Fedora version of the stack automatically
> any more attractive than just installing the upstream version in the
> way upstream documents.)

It doesn't make it automatically more attractive, but from the feedback I've
gotten so far, the general idea _does_ make it more attractive overall. And,
it gives us in general and the SIGs in specific a better place from which to
engage in conversation.

And, if the answer is that Fedora ends up being a great place to install the
upstream version in the way upstream documents, is that really a problem?


[I'm going to reply to the rest of this message in a separate thread.]


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