On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 22:10:46 -0400 Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > But does Fedora have any goals? Snipping out a lot of interesting points. Why can't we do all of them? Probably because we don't have any clear leaders for any of that. We're getting to the point where we might have clear(ish) leaders for a given Feature or two, but nothing beyond that. With our new ability to cut the distro up in many ways, you'd think it would be easy for a clear leader that wanted to do $Foo with Fedora to drive a cut of the package set specifically designed and configured to do $Foo, and reach out to the audience for $Foo. I tried to do that a little bit with F7, but due to A) it being really new, and B) breaking the world for the merger things didn't shake out well, and what we wound up with was another release that looked just like the one before. Now there isn't that much incentive to put a lot of effort into being able to customize spins more than just "what packages are in it" because we aren't doing anything like that ourselves. I tried to kickstart the 'Desktop' spin, but that was a lot like the LiveCD and that's OK, no biggie. Some of these markets aren't really the right place for a traditional installer of choose your own adventure. They're more like the Live installer where you get what you get and you'll like it (and you can customize if you want with a gui tool after the fact). So, if there is /anybody/ in the 'verse that wants to pursue one of the aforementioned targets, or one we haven't talked about yet, by all means throw up a feature to do a cut of Fedora for that market. Deliver it via traditional install media, via Live media, via something we haven't thought of yet, or all of the above. Figure out what you would like to change or reconfigure for this target, and help us define a way to commonly make these changes across our various outputs so that the next target can use it too. We seem to have a lot of sous chefs which are busy doing what they know, but no executive chefs with a grand vision of what will be on tomorrow's menus. -- Jesse Keating Release Engineer: Fedora
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