Fedora.NEXT Products and the fate of Spins

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2014-02-04 at 10:21 +0100, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> On 02/01/2014 11:07 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> >> Right now, the vision essentially looks like:
> >> 
> >> Fedora Products: This *is* Fedora. It comes in three flavors.
> > 
> > I don't like the hardcoded "three" there at all, because if KDE is
> > to ever become a full-fledged Product (which IMHO it should have
> > been from the beginning!), it will need to change (unless you're
> > dropping one of your 3 sacred spins).
> > 
> 
> Well, I thought it was clear, since I did include the words "Right
> now", but yes: I do think that other products should be both permitted
> and planned. One thing I've been discussing as an option with some of
> the members of the KDE SIG is to promote Fedora Scientific, based on
> the present-day KDE and Scientific Spins, as a fourth Fedora Product.
> 
> I think this would be valuable as it would also act as a prototype for
> what the new-product process will need to be going forward.

This still seems kind of bizarre to me. Scientific Workstation is a very
niche spin for a particular audience which happens to use the KDE
desktop because, I dunno, the person who built the spin had to pick
*some* desktop and they liked KDE more than GNOME or something. KDE is
our most significant desktop spin after GNOME.

If we're expanding the product set, Fedora KDE seems like a reasonable
Product candidate, but smooshing it together with Scientific Workstation
seems a bit bizarre.
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