----- Original Message ----- > From: "Toshio Kuratomi" <a.badger@xxxxxxxxx> > To: "Fedora Design Team" <design-team@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2013 7:18:19 AM > Subject: Re: fedora.next visualization help? > > > > > On Sep 11, 2013 9:33 AM, "Matthew Miller" < mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > wrote: > > > > Hello design people! It looks like Fedora.next is going to be A Thing -- > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora.next/boardproposal > > > > With the integration of Stephen Gallagher's three-target-products idea, I > > think this has moved beyond the previous visualization (which involved me > > drawing concentric circles). And the link above is only the board-level > > view; when we get down to the technical details it gets even more > > complicated. Can you help me paint a picture (and maybe through doing that > > refine how everything really fits together)? > > > I had been thinking about this last week and came up with a different > metaphor that was more accurate. I think it's too unwieldy but maybe it can > be a starting point. > > If we go to basic (and a bit stylized, forgive me professor macadough) > geology, fedora core is similar to the earth's core. It's the center, the > base, the essentials that make up fedora. > > The rest of Fedora's current packageset ( which we've been calling fedora > commons ) is like the earth's crust. It depends on the core, wraps it in a > layer that people are going to find more usable, adds more diversity, and > provides an environment for further things to be built. > > Stacks and environments are like volcanoes and hot springs. They change the > packageing landscape around them, sometimes radically. The area around them > is often more fertile because of the changes they've wrought. The changes > can penetrate the crust and tap into things in the core. > > The three products are like ecosystems on top of this landscape. They make > use of the resources provided by the core, crust, and volcanoes and in turn > are the location where life really starts to live and grow. Ecosystems each > have their own flavor when viewed separately and yet they overlap with each > other when looked at on a map, sharing the core, crust, and certain > volcanoes with their neighbors. > > Okay there it is. Some of the metaphors are a bit of a stretch but hopefully > I've explained the salient features of each element there. So maybe someone > else can find a different framework that better captures the relationships > here or just classified this one. > > (And Matt can correct me if any of these elements don't fit together the way > he was imagining) Wow. Very nice :) -robyn > > -Toshio > > _______________________________________________ > design-team mailing list > design-team@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team _______________________________________________ design-team mailing list design-team@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team
