On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:38:08 -0400 Will Woods <wwoods@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 16:06 -0400, seth vidal wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 15:02 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: > > > One, simple question that may not have an answer. > > > > > > > > > What is our target market supposed to be? > > > > > > > according to the docs, etc I've seen in the past: > > - hobbyist/expert/early adopter > > > > The only problem with that is that we seem to always be writing > > software and encouraged to direct our efforts to people who do not > > fall in that group. We're encouraged to write for ma and pa kettle > > and auntie 'em. > > > > That's been the biggest confusion I've had over the years. > > > > It's not impossible to work for both groups - but I hate being told > > we are supposed to work for group 1 and then told to write for > > group 2. > > So, this is just my personal opinion as A Dude Who Has Used Linux For > A While, but I always feel like we should be doing this in stages. > > > Stage 1: Make developers / maintainers / experts happy. > > Stage 2: Use the combined power of thousands of aforementioned > developers / maintainers to make the distro awesome for Early Adopters > and other tech-savvy types. > > Stage 3: With the greater numbers provided by Early Adopters, further > polish the distro to the point where it's usable by the Whole Wide > World. I think this is slightly flawed. Stage 1 is not a one time thing. It's a constant on-going cycle. If it wasn't, there would never be anything new. Which means you can reasonably attain stage 2. But since the people in stage 1 are by then off developing new stuff to make them happy, the people from stage 2 are constantly resetting making it hard to get to stage 3. Where the _cool_ part happens, is when people from stages 2 and 3 (to a lesser degree) start contributing to stage 1 itself. Maybe we should start focusing on providing an easy way for people to get from stage 2 to stage 1. /me stops rambling and goes on vacation josh _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
