On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 1:18 AM, Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Matthew Miller (mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) said: >> * Internet of things. This has a lot of parts where Fedora can fit: >> Fedora on devices (hello, ARM SIG!), Fedora Workstation as a devel >> platform, Fedora Cloud as backend. Maybe big data, too. We have lots >> of parts, but no strategy. Metrics: production of such a strategy. >> Features/change requests related to IoT, possibly IoT SIG with >> regular meetings... >> >> Discuss. :) > > If Fedora's interested in supporting IoT at the non-hobbyist device level, > that use case likely requires that updates are: > > - available for an indefinite period of time > - able to be installed reliably with minimal user interaction > - potentially done automatically via a push model I think atomic is an excellent use case for that style of updates and with decent testing would even provide decent rolling style of update between releases with the ability to do rollbacks too with one boot type of functionality (update, set watchdog, reboot, test connectivity and core functionality, unset one-boot flag for rollback or if tests fail/watchdog triggers). The first two items are covered to some degree by atomic, the later would need some form of push management platform. I've not looked closely at feedhenry bits as I don't believe they've been opensourced yet, or I missed the announcement but there could be building blocks there. > Is that something doable at the SIG level, or would it need more systemwide > work? I suspect some of both. Peter _______________________________________________ council-discuss mailing list council-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/council-discuss The Fedora Project's mission is to lead the advancement of free and open source software and content as a collaborative community.
