On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 10:01:46AM -0500, Christian Schaller wrote: > So as I stated before and which also the PRD stated, we do hope that > the workstation becomes a solid and nice desktop that a lot of people > can like and want to use, because at the end of the day all users, > developer or others, want the same baseline, a stable and well working > system. But I think the crucial thing here is that the goal of the new > products is not to just be the traditional Fedora packaging effort, > but to be actual development targets where at least Red Hat plans to > put paid time on developing these features. And thus putting in > 'general users' as a usecase doesn't make sense to me here, because as > much as we all here would love to see 2014 be the year of the linux > desktop, that is very unlikely to happen just because we general users > it in the PRD. The aim of the PRD is to describe the product that we are developing. It is a requirement that the product we develop be usable as a general purpose desktop, as otherwise aproximately nobody is going to use it. Therefore, the PRD must discuss the requirements of a usable general purpose desktop. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
