[Fedora-spins] Fedora Ro Spin State?

[Paul W. Frields]

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 04:31:04PM +0100, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 27.01.2010, 17:01 +0200 schrieb Adrian:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > The thing is that our users would feel in some way special when Fedora
> > will care sufficiently that it will build a dedicated spin for them. 
> 
> Understood. But I think Kevin's question still stands: What is the
> benefit compared to the other spins and choosing the RO locale there?
> 
> If there is anything that we can improve, we should improve it in all
> spins and not just a localized one that will target a limited user base.

I think Christoph is correct.  I don't think there's much chance of
the Fedora Project Board approving a localized spin for the reasons
you guys have already stated.  The BrOffice.org spin was created to
allow distribution of Fedora while avoiding a specific trademark
problem in that region.

Because the Live spins tend to provide all the l10n bits, there's not
as much value in a spin that just happens to default to some other
language.  I think it would be more valuable to look at how we might
better provide, and show the user at boot time how to get, a properly
localized environment no matter where they live.

One other minor point -- if we're hearing any sort of consistent
issues with producing a spin from a kickstart, such as being too hard,
then that process probably needs to be better documented.

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