On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 09:06 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: > = Mission Change = > > Right now our mission statements, as listed on the overview page are: > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Overview#Our_Mission > > * The Fedora Project always strives to lead, not follow. > * The Fedora Project consistently seeks to create, improve, and spread > free/libre code and content. > * The Fedora Project succeeds through shared action on the part of > many people throughout our community. > > == Problem 1: Too broad == > > The objectives above are incredibly broad. It's not even clear that we > produce a Linux based distribution. Even though the Fedora Project does > much more, our biggest feat at this time is the production of the Fedora > operating system. > > == Solution 1: Define an additional mission == > > Adopt a new mission worded in an agreeable way similar to: > > "Produce a usable, general purpose desktop operating system" > > I feel this fundamental shift on the mission page is required. Our teams > all do lots of different and valuable work. All of these teams are on a > schedule based around our regular releases of the operating system. This > will also give our contributors and leaders the ability to ask themselves: > > "Does this change/feature/task help produce a usable, general purpose > desktop operating system?" > > If the answer to that question is no, perhaps it's worth re-thinking this > change/feature/task. > > This comes down to project vs product. Your proposed mission change is a great mission for the desktop spin product. Not so great for the Fedora project as a whole. Our Project has a wide and broad mission that manifests itself into various products. One of the products is the Desktop spin which absolutely should have a more concise mission statement, one that more closely relates to an individuals needs and concerns. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
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