I did rewrite part of the PRD to make it an (even more) explicit part of the project, I just didn't want it in the usecase list due to the way we are focusing the development effort around the desktop I don't want to give a false impression of a lot of engineering resources being put into specific development for 'general users'. Our 'general user' story is that we will have a solid foundation that 'just works' and of course many of the applications packaged for Fedora are of interest to general users. But to me if we are to add 'general users' as a usecase it should be accompanied by plans to write new desktop applications for Fedora that would appeal to such users. For instance if we planned to write a desktop Hulu app or a Facebook assistant or whatever the idea would be. The goal of the 3 products to me is to start building sellable stories for why someone would want to use Fedora specifically as opposed to linux in general. Which is why we are trying to tie development resources to the plan. I mean yes, we can say that Fedora is a nice choice for Photographers since we have Darktable packaged for it, but that is equally true for almost any distribution out there. And since we are not planning to put specific work into Darktable or similar for Fedora I haven't put 'Photographers' on our usecase list. That said being a solid operating system that packages Darktable it could very well be a great option for a lot of photographers out there and I do hope we will have a lot of photographers using it. As who knows, maybe as we move forward we will decide to target photographers specifically with some development work. Christian 'On Wed, 2013-12-18 at 18:04 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 05:13:10AM -0500, Christian Schaller wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > Sorry for being a bit late with chimming in again, was travelling then > > knocked out with acute food poisoning. > > > > Anyway, the second non-heading sentence of the document says 'We want > > to create a stable, integrated, polished and user friendly system that > > can appeal to a wide general audience, but with a special focus on > > providing a platform for development of server side and client > > applications.' This is in the Mission statement. So I still fail to > > see how we are not covering this aspect of things. > > Given that you agree that it's in scope, what's your objection to > rewriting part of the PRD to make it clear that it's an explicit part of > the project? > > -- > Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
