Fedora.NEXT Products and the fate of Spins

"Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" johannbg at gmail.com
Tue Feb 4 12:56:04 UTC 2014


On 02/04/2014 12:38 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 10:57:51AM +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
>>> For that matter, there could be a "Fedora GNOME" spin distinct from the
>>> Fedora Workstation product, if there were people really keen to work on it,
>>> perhap as a showcase of upstream technology without worrying about the
>>> concerns of the Fedora Workstation WG's particular area of focus. (With
>>> "people keen to work on it" as the really key phrase.)
>> But you cannot overlap products as in you cannot have a "Gnome
>> workstation and "KDE workstation" etc you cannot have an "Server"
>> product outside what is already defined in the ServerWG nor a
>> "Cloud" product outside what is already defined there.
> I think it's okay for there to be some overlap. The real world doesn't
> always chop up into neat boxes. If there's a *lot* of overlap between two
> nominally-different products, then that is less useful and it's probably
> better for them to either work together or else find a stronger
> differentiation.
>
> But that's talking about products. As long as someone is interested in doing
> them, spins can overlap like crazy.

Yes but community products wont be considered "primary" products which 
means if things continues in the same manner as "default" does be 
ignored by QA/Releng/Marketing/Design since the focus will *only* be on 
"primary" products.

JBG


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