On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 00:06 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Luis Villa (luis@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > >> but you haven't been talking about that - you've been talking about spit > >> and polish which sounds more like integration - > >> choose-your-own-adventure and integration seem fairly antithetical > >> unless you have N teams for each adventure type doing the integration. > > > > Not necessarily antithetical. After all, anyone who uses the thing as > > a base for their distro is going to want the base to be solid and > > well-integrated. Taking that route probably would mean that desktop > > polish is a lower priority than polishing the tools for making > > derivatives, though. > > Sure, but right now the base is GNOME, KDE, XFCE, development, eclipse, > etc., plus a server core. That's a *lot* of polish to be doing, unless > you shrink the base. Also, it's entirely possible that you're polishing > in different ways if you're doing the choose-your-own-adventure core > (do you want firefox? epiphany+webkit? konq on GNOME?) vs a tightly > coupled desktop. See the recent OnlyShowIn thread for examples. > > I suspect this is the path of least resistance, though - we're already > doing it in one way or another now, and it doesn't require Fedora to > scare up more resources. > > That being said, it's unlikely this is the way to drastic world > domination, or attacking other operating system's buzz factor - after > all, what end user wants to *build their own OS*? They just want > something that works that lets them do what they want. > I'll suggest a path of pain here but I'll mention it anyway. This is why we need to be able to do branches of packages in more than just 'release' ways. Arguably fedora gnome desktop would be: fedora base repo fedora desktop repo fedora gnome repo + kickstart.cfg to combine them fedora base repo is an obvious set fedora desktop repo is pkgrel+1 with fixes for desktop that are desktop specific fedora gnome repo is gnome-specific fixes in pkgrel+1 it's an infinite branch set - but then if we spin from there then test1 is: base repo works test2 is: base repo + additional repos work test3 is: spit polish, confirm final for fedora base final for fedora gnome desktop does this make updates an absolute BITCH? yes, yes it does. b/c it means the maintainer of, firefox, for example might have to maintain different branches for fedora and fedora-gnome-desktop. world-of-unfun but for integration purposes may be the only option. -sv _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
