On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 4:59 AM, Christian Schaller <cschalle@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Josh Boyer" <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> To: "Discussions about development for the Fedora desktop" <desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2014 6:46:01 PM >> Subject: FESCo Workstation PRD follow up questions >> >> Hi All, >> >> As noted last week, FESCo deferred approval of the Workstation PRD >> because they had some questions. Below are the questions they've come >> up with thus far. >> >> 1) How does the Fedora Design Team play into the standardization work? > >> This is in reference to the "Work towards standardizing and unifying >> the Linux desktop space" bullet. Specifically, the theme part IIRC. > > The Fedora design team is an integral part of the Fedora and part of the Emerging Platform Team > inside Red Hat and plays a key part in ongoing development. Currently they are for > instance in charge of coming up with a branding strategy for the 3 products. > There is no plan to develop a Fedora specific theme currently, but the Fedora design > theme will be pulled in to help for instance develop new icons in order to for instance > be able to provide an integrated accessibility experience with high-contrast icon theme across > the major toolkits supported by the workstation. > >> 2) What is the actual deliverable and delivery mechanism for Workstation? >> >> This is asking how we intend to ship the Workstation product. ISO, >> live USB image, something else? > > There is no plan to change this from what has been the primary delivery methods of > Fedora so far. That said I think the emphasis will need to change where a USB sticks > is the primary medium and DVDs the secondary. > >> 3) FESCo has said schedules should be kept in-sync for now. Should the >> release schedule section still be included? >> >> This is in reference to the "The working group will also be >> responsible for defining release schedule while also taking the needs >> of the other working groups into consideration and the resources >> available from the Fedora infrastructure team." line. >> >> We might consider just changing this to: >> >> "The working group will also be responsible for on-going feedback and >> suggestions on release schedules, based on collaboration with upstream >> components, the other Working Groups and FESCo, and Fedora >> Infrastructure." > > Sounds fine. > >> 4) What traditional policies and rules will be modified from the >> existing Fedora policies/rules? >> >> This is in reference to the section at the top of the PRD that says: >> "Being a new product the Fedora Workstation will have its basic rules >> and targets set through this PRD and thus there will be deviations >> from some of the traditional policies or rules that the old Fedora >> project followed. " >> >> FESCo has clearly and repeatedly stated that it retains oversight to >> all decisions all WGs make. It might be simpler to just remove this >> line. >> >> Lastly, we now know that the 3rd party repository item has been, at >> best, severely limited in what is considered permissible. There were >> comments on the ticket pertaining to this, but it was under discussion >> by the Board so FESCo did not have a specific question for the PRD in >> this regard. I would anticipate FESCo will push back on the existing >> text under the 3rd party section. Perhaps we should reword this >> before taking it back to FESCo? > > Sure. I've made a few edits to the PRD to address these specific questions. The individual diffs can be seen in the wiki history. I modified the 3rd party repo section to simply read: "Fedora Workstation will work to ensure that 3rd party software has a stable underlying OS with a known set of APIs/services that ISVs and other developers can rely on for their software. Fedora will not include any non-free software by default or host any non-free software in our repositories. " I'll make sure FESCo is aware of the edits. If anyone has objections to the changes I've made, please speak up soon. josh -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
