Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

Matthias Clasen mclasen at redhat.com
Tue Nov 5 16:25:18 UTC 2013


On Tue, 2013-11-05 at 12:35 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le Lun 4 novembre 2013 23:02, Nicolas Mailhot a écrit :
> 
> > The problem is not to get code in the hands of developers. You don't need
> > distros for that. The problem is to get the code to end-users and
> > developers spend more time fighting the constrains it involves than trying
> > to understand this problem-space.
> >
> > Of course the aim might not be to reach end users but to push code from
> > developpers to other developers.
> 
> And if that is the case, there is a huge disconnect between GNOME goals
> and Fedora Workstation goals. GNOME speakers repeat all year round their
> software is not aimed at "power users", but developers are the über power
> user.

Why do you think the two sets of goals have to be one and the same ?

The Fedora Workstation effort (not a great name, by the way), is brand
new, and its goals have only just been drafted. How could the goals that
GNOME has followed in the past 3 years be perfectly align with it ? And
why should they, for that matter ? This is not a GNOME project, it is
about saving Fedora.




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