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

[Miloslav Trmač]

On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 3:38 PM, Matthew Miller
<mattdm at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> This is a draft of the proposal I'm presenting at Flock, "An Architecture
> for a More Agile Fedora" (<http://sched.co/19ugKGM>).
(The more high-level comment.)

This essentially explicitly gives up on the idea of "Fedora" or,
implicitly, "Linux" as a "platform"^W/"deployment target"/"ecosystem"
== "something you write applications for", and replaces it with,
basically "the kernel+libc that other deployment targets/ecosystems
can use to run".

It gives up on "Fedora" or "Linux" as a general competitor to Windows;
Fedora becomes "just one of the commodity systems one can run Rails
4.0.x/Rails 3.2.x/node.js/JBoss/GNOME OS on".


We've been slowly and silently moving in the proposed direction of
comparatively fragmented and independent ecosystems for some time,
just because there wasn't a consensus on doing the opposite.  We do
have a choice of the direction, however.

Should we, do we want to, (and even, can we at all) get this project
on the same page behind a single coherent Fedora operating system
(from the users' point of view) and deployment target / API (from the
developers' point of view)?  Or are we already "doomed" into
supporting the fragmenting ecosystems best as we can?
    Mirek