On Mon, 28 Sep 2009, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Paul W. Frields (stickster@xxxxxxxxx) said: > > Our best statement of target audience for Fedora is found here: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Overview#Is_Fedora_for_me.3F > > > > We may be able to resolve, or help FESCo resolve, engineering > > decisions if we extend this description to include some exemplar users > > who better represent this target. In other words, we can draw a > > better picture of "Uma," "Dietrich," and "Sayyid,"[1] each > > representing someone for whom we want to make technical decisions. > > > > Then the questions we need to ask become, do our current processes -- > > be they for testing/QA, release, package updates, or what-have-you -- > > support those users? And how do we prioritize conflicts? > > I'm not sure those guidelines lend themselves to particular use cases; > the only one that would seem to apply would be the one about 'latest > stable software', which would imply we move *too* fast right now in > some cases. (And the lack of tying "latest stable" to a release means > more fuel for the fewer updates/more updates debate.) > They are very targeted towards the user, even new users at that. It's unclear to me how to turn that into an engineering effort. -Mike _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
