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

[Miloslav Trmač]

On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 5:16 PM, Matthew Miller
<mattdm at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 04:30:32PM +0200, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
>> How do I package and ship an application that depends on two or more
>> stacks (e.g. uses a database, has a web frontend and perhaps also a
>> local GUI) if the stacks the application depends on can have
>> overlapping and therefore probably (necessarily?) conflicting
>> software, different lifecycles and packaging methods?
>
> I'm not suggesting a crazy free-for-all. If you have an application which
> depends on multiple stacks, you would want to select one technology for all
> of those stacks -- OpenShift cartridges, or Software Collections, or Fedora
> Formulas.

"If I have an application" that hasn't been explicitly written for
Fedora.next, it may already depend on multiple APIs/stacks and I may
end up in a situation with no way to run that application.
    Mirek