----- Original Message ----- > From: "Adam Williamson" <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: "Discussions about development for the Fedora desktop" <desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2016 3:22:16 PM > Subject: Re: The status of Fedora Media Writer: postponed to F25 > > On Wed, 2016-04-27 at 14:53 -0400, Christian Schaller wrote: > > > > > 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. > > Of course, if we were building FMW as a cross-distro project with all > the other distros who need something exactly like it, we could be > sharing all that work and taking advantage of other people's expertise > in those areas... > -- Well there is nothing stopping anyone from taking the FMW code and releasing their version of it for their own stuff, it is all GPL. And it is not like we are trying in any form to hide the code or make that process hard. Christian -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
