Proposal: fedora server branch - not really a respin at all

[seth vidal]

http://skvidal.wordpress.com/2010/08/31/why-do-we-think-one-size-can-create-all/

Why is it we think that we can build a server and a desktop and a mobile
platform and a computational cluster platform and EVERYTHING out of a
single tree of pkgs and a single kernel? Is it not possible that easy,
functional and versatile is too many things to ask for and keep everyone
getting along?

I’m going to suggest something radical:

fedora server should be a complete tree branch – with its own criteria
for admittance of pkgs and updates

fedora should continue as is with the focus being the desktop and
targetted the user that the board defined a little while back:

http://lwn.net/Articles/358865/

specifically:

 We found four defining characteristics that we
believe best describe the Fedora distribution's target audience:
Someone who (1) is voluntarily switching to Linux, (2) is familiar
with computers, but is not necessarily a hacker or developer, (3) is
likely to collaborate in some fashion when something's wrong with
Fedora, and (4) wants to use Fedora for general productivity, either
using desktop applications or a Web browser.



Perfect, right? We can focus on the issues of a server and of cutting
the edge of what servers need while the desktop-oriented folks make a
great desktop (or desktops) and we don’t have to have these pitched
battles over systemd and networkmanager and policykit and what not.

sounds like a winner to me.

what do you think?