Fedora.NEXT Products and the fate of Spins

[Stephen Gallagher]

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On 02/04/2014 10:37 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> 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.
> 

It's not just that, actually. It has to do with the fact that the
majority of the scientific-focused applications are built atop the QT4
and other KDE libraries, making it much better suited to operating
atop the KDE desktop environment. Certainly it *can* be run in GNOME
at the cost of additional memory usage and other resources.
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