----- Original Message ----- > From: "Matthew Miller" <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: "Discussions about development for the Fedora desktop" <desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2016 2:07:57 PM > Subject: Re: The status of Fedora Media Writer: postponed to F25 > > On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 08:26:43AM -0400, Christian Schaller wrote: > > Well lets look at this as we move forward, personally I don't think > > investing time and money into having a full Windows and MacOS X harness > > hosted by Fedora is a good use of time or money and the so called > > 'legal' issues seemed rather random. > > I'm confident the legal issues can be worked out. However, we > definitely need to be concerned with security and repeatably as well; > we don't want to make binaries built on a developer's personal laptop > be our main downloadable. I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "full > Windows and MacOS X harness". My point was that we are not going into the business of making Mac and Windows software on a large scale, so demanding the same process and that we have the kind of facilities we have for building Fedora and Linux software is a crazy overkill. It goes into the old joke that when you ask an engineer to solve a problem instead of spending 5 minutes solving it he/she spends 5 Months creating a framework for solving problems like it, and that is what I am warning against here. We need to focus on solving our challenges efficiently and choose solutions that are proportional to the scope of the problem, not rat holing ourselves. So while it of course would be wonderful to have a full fledged Windows and Mac harness that matches what we have for building Fedora, considering the size of the problem I think having something a lot simpler would be more appropriate to the size of the challenge we are having here. So a shared office Mac or shared office Windows system might be enough. Christian > > -- > Matthew Miller > <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Fedora Project Leader > -- > desktop mailing list > desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
