Fedora's Strategic Direction: An Update from the Council
@mattdm wrote: The Fedora Council met last week in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It’s a lovely city, but rather cold, so we largely stayed within the interconnected network of enclosed bridges known as the...
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@znmeb wrote: This sounds to me a lot like the Fedora Remix. I used to build one. Are you saying you want to make that easier? My recollection is that it wasn’t all that difficult - just a bunch of...
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@jakfrost wrote: I think they want to host everything under one roof, GitHub in this instance. Also would seem more final product results (solutions) are going to be squarely in the community wheel...
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@znmeb wrote: As a former marketing guy, it’s long struck me as questionable that the resources of Fedora were diffused into so many spins. I can see a GNOME / Silverblue / Flatpak desktop, a KDE...
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@kkofler wrote: You used twice the possessive form of “Fedora”, which is in violation of the trademark usage guidelines:...
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@mattdm wrote: @kkofler The trademark guidelines desperately need a refresh. We’re talking to legal about that. The intention is that Spins and other within-the-project solutions will have less...
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@mattdm wrote: Servers? How many people run Fedora as a server? About 20% of Fedora OS users use our offerings in some server context. That includes everything from home use to high-scale production....
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@JohnMH wrote: About 20% of Fedora OS users use our offerings in some server context. That includes everything from home use to high-scale production. And that’s not even considering EPEL, which is...
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Fedora's Strategic Direction: An Update from the Council
@kkofler wrote: Another clarification that would be welcome: is mattdm: Teams can build Solutions from any building block and pick and choose what tools they use. really intended to mean that...
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@mattdm wrote: 20% is an estimate based on download stats and backed up by anecdotal evidence and conversations. We also had a natural experiment with F28, where the modular repo was turned on for...
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@mattdm wrote: really intended to mean that Solutions are encouraged to host their entire documentation and issue tracker on third-party proprietary infrastructure at Microsoft, as the Silverblue team...
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Fedora's Strategic Direction: An Update from the Council
@kkofler wrote: mattdm: I don’t think being a holdout really advances Fedora or Fedora’s cause. It ends up with us being a “I love what they’re doing for purity, but of course I don’t do the same...
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@jakfrost wrote: mattdm: And pagure.io is nifty, but a) it’s not a Fedora service either, and b) it’s just plain not winning in the marketplace of ideas and we don’t have tons of resources to pour...
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@mattdm wrote: I don’t think being a holdout really advances Fedora or Fedora’s cause. It ends up with us being a “I love what they’re doing for purity, but of course I don’t do the same myself”...
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@JohnMH wrote: And we don’t, I hope, make people feel bad when they choose to (or need to!) use that software. That approach doesn’t actually convince people, and I don’t think it really gives us the...
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@kkofler wrote: mattdm: If our stance was “I love Free Software for purity”, then, maybe. But I don’t think that’s ever been our position. We love free free and open source software for many reasons,...
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@znmeb wrote: JohnMH: I can think of very few situations where one would need to run proprietary software, outside of firmware on some devices. Fedora has always been an excellent example of this, and...
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