On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 8:41 AM, David Malcolm <dmalcolm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 20:51 -0600, Mike McGrath wrote: >> On Wed, 3 Feb 2010, inode0 wrote: >> > Sadly they don't have categories like the best linux distribution for >> > developers there. >> >> Is that what we're doing? If so would we win it? > > (Apologies for diving into this thread, this got me thinking) > > "best linux distribution for developer" seems too vague to me to be > achievable. I think there are different categories of developer. Well, according to the above analysis it is achievable if linux.com says we are. But even if we assume we are in fact the best linux distribution for developers or for engineers or for graduate students in scientific fields or for whatever it doesn't follow that we want to have that group in mind for a target audience for any particular product of the distribution (at least I find it inconceivable those would be target audiences of the default desktop). Even if we change the focus to identifying a target audience for the project, which is where I think "developers" would rank very high on the list your analysis is valid. We don't appeal to all developers as a project either. Do we focus on a narrow achievable target audience that it is realistic for us to be the best for now? I bet that would result in a worsening of the perceived crisis. Or should we focus on a group with broad appeal that while perhaps not ever being achievable will lessen the indicators of the crisis? Or do we go about our business attracting, say, recreational FOSS python developers who as a side-effect of adding cool feature X to the Fedora distribution also add less visible things Y and Z to make the life of a python developer using Fedora better? I always, perhaps mistakenly, thought the point of the default spin was to showcase the work of the developers, artists, documentation writers, and others who are contributing so much to the Fedora Project. Who is supposed to find that sort of showcase interesting? Or is that just a quaint old notion of the output of a project in its infancy? It probably is ... John -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
