Yes, although the details is of course a bit more complex than that. The plan is that we decide on features we want for Fedora, work on them where most natural, which means upstream in many cases and then as soon as they are ready pull them into Fedora. The Wayland effort is a good example of something we decided we wanted to do in order to have it available as a tool to enable our Fedora feature roadmap. We are working on it upstream, yet at the same time trying to ensure that Fedora is the natural place for people to try it out and use it. So instead of setting the development priorities in a RHEL or upstream context, we are trying to do so in a Fedora context. Christian ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Matthew Miller" <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: "Discussions about development for the Fedora desktop" <desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2014 3:20:27 PM > Subject: Re: The vision for the Fedora Workstation > > On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 08:26:18AM -0500, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > We fix bugs upstream so they're not in Fedora, and we fix bugs in Fedora > > so that they're not in RHEL. So the least amount of time we spend on > > RHEL bugs means that the community/upstream versions are of better quality. > > > > The RHEL bugs obviously do take precedence, but that doesn't mean it > > is what we spend most of our time on. > > Which is good overall -- I'm glad Red Hat pays people to work on upstreams. > > It raises a question about this particular resourcing side of the argument, > though. Given that upstream and RHEL take some of the focus, the number of > total full-time-equivalents working on Gnome in Fedora is smaller > than the total number of people employed. It's still a significant number, > but given that there are multiple desktops with vibrant upstreams, it's not > really fair to count in any other way. The downstream work is the same way: > that will happen regardless of what Fedora does. So, counted that way, I > don't think it's really an overwhelming case. > > Unless Red Hat desktop team is interested in shifting some of its focus to > Fedora itself. From what Christian says, I think that actually *is* the case > -- if Gnome is chosen as the Fedora Workstation desktop, that means more > people given time to work on that specifically. Right? > > Of course Red Hat is also are interested in Fedora as supporting other > upstream projects Red Hat cares about, but that's a separate thing. > > -- > Matthew Miller -- Fedora Project -- <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > -- > desktop mailing list > desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
