I realized it might help if I step back to the big picture here. Fedora as a project is an integrator; we don't write a lot of new code specifically for the distro — at least not for Fedora alone. One of our marketing points is that Fedora is more than the sum of its parts¹. We tell users that the integration work we do is one of the key reasons to pick Fedora over another distribution. In many ways, GNOME Software is the face of that promise in Fedora Workstation. It's where you can see all of the software we make available. This is one of the reasons I strongly support the initiative to only show applications which meet high standards for things like icons and screenshots — those details are part of the polish. I think it's okay to also present third-party software, but it needs to be clear to users how that software fits into the promise. It's not just where they are downloading it from, but what it means to download software from somewhere else. If it's included in Software, does it mean that we are making the same promises about integration quality? Does it mean the software will follow (at least) Fedora's support lifecycle? Does it mean that I can ask Fedora for help? There's a lot of different ways to answer these questions, and while I have some opinions, there's a wide range of answers the WG could come up with which I'd be perfectly happy with. We just need to make sure that the answer for any given third party repository or software is communicated as part of the user experience. [1] https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2015/04/20/fedora-workstation-more-than-the-sum-of-its-parts/ [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Workstation/Third_party_software_proposal -- Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ desktop mailing list -- desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to desktop-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
