On Mon, 12 Oct 2009, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 10:44 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: > > > 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. > > > > > > > Peoples complaint is with the Fedora product, adding this mission > > statement brings additional focus to that. > > > > > 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. > > > > > > > Take the word 'spin' off of there. The 'spins' aren't nearly as useful as > > we think they are. I can install a desktop without a 'spin' and it's > > still not as stable as it could be. > > > > > > You can install a desktop without a spin because we allow people to do > installs from the giant pile of packages and to choose their own > adventure. > > Whether you call it a "spin" or a 'product' or an 'offering', the > specific grouping that we use to make up the Fedora Desktop is the first > and foremost offering and one that has a specific mission statement. > That shouldn't prevent another spin or product or offering from having a > different, even conflicting mission statement. All should fit within > the global Fedora /Project/ mission statement. Contributors care about > the project mission statement, and to some degree a product or two. End > users would care mostly about the product mission statement, maybe later > care about the project mission statement. > That's kind of my point. Our project mission statement makes no indication of what we actually do or that we even have a product at all. Being involved in Fedora it seems fairly obvious to me that one of the things the Fedora Project does is produce the Fedora OS product. I picked desktop specifically because that seems to be overwhelmingly what people are looking for. -Mike _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
