Something the Board has talked about recently is defining success for Fedora. The project has often done this directly through our main deliverable, which is shipping another Fedora release. We work hard to create, test, and deliver a high quality Linux distribution. We look at feedback and try and correct mistakes or oversights in the next release. These are all fine things, and things that should continue as we stride towards Fedora.next, but is that really defining success for the project as a whole? Is Fedora simply a project to create a Linux distribution, or is it something larger? Our Four Foundations speak to the bedrock that Fedora is built on and provide guidance in decision making for specific instances. Yet we seem to rarely stand back and evaluate how Fedora as a project is doing. Are we achieving some manner of success in promoting those Foundations? Should we be striving for that? Is it even measurable? If so, how? The Board is starting this thread to have an earnest discussion around what people see "success" being for the Fedora project. Hopefully the Board members will chime in with their own thoughts soon, but we want to get as many ideas around this as possible. Hopefully this discussion will help the Board, and the community as a whole, gather some insight as to where we think Fedora is, where it should be heading, and what we should be doing to get it there. Thanks. josh _______________________________________________ board-discuss mailing list board-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/board-discuss
