-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 07/01/2014 11:16 AM, Josh Boyer wrote: > 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. I've been defining "success for Fedora" for a while now this way: Fedora is successful if a sizeable number (ideally a majority) of developers and system administrators choose to use Fedora as the platform from which they will build and/or deploy their applications. Fedora should seek to accomplish this by being both the best and most accessible platform choice while also holding to its core values that open-source allows us to build better solutions faster with collaboration. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlOy0mkACgkQeiVVYja6o6PphQCgiUCvxtcuUj42etsv6Tz5jtUV mpEAoINRDq5Tx6UeB6+Jx5wcwZnxKsFw =+u9n -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ board-discuss mailing list board-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/board-discuss
