On 7/25/07, seth vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 12:06 -0400, Jonathan Blandford wrote: > On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 23:38 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 23:34:47 -0400 > > "Luis Villa" <luis@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > (Of course, another option is that my desire for a polished desktop > > > experience may be best met by someone doing a polished desktop spin of > > > Fedora rather than by having Fedora work on desktop polish at all, and > > > that Fedora should merely enable that and work to get fixes/polish > > > upstream where possible.) > > > > There really isn't a reason why enterprising folks couldn't make a High > > Polish Desktop spin of Fedora, or help rel-eng to make it. It just > > needs somebody to drive it. I couldn't successfully drive a Desktop > > spin for F7, maybe somebody who understands the target better can. > > That's what we try to do right now. I am pretty much coming to the > conclusion that "High Polish" can't really be done as an add-on. You > need the ability to make the whole distro change (eg, what ubuntu does > to debian). If we want Fedora to be a competitive desktop, we need to > make Fedora a desktop. > So if we take this out to it's next obvious conclusion: where does that leave the upstream consumer of Fedora: RHEL? Or any server-oriented initiative based around fedora, for that matter?
To be honest... I think that we have to say that this is one of the hard decisions that we need to make, have a group cry, wear sackcloth, and move on about. Be it desktop, server, distro-builder, or child training system... the core mission of Fedora should be about that, and every other market is left up to SIG's to get. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
