On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 3) It's the ecosystem. If using Software Collections on RHEL is good for > your company, it's good for it to work on Fedora, because a) we're the > upstream and problems get worked out here, b) development resources > benefit Fedora rather than being "spent" in a pocket universe, and c) > Software Collections which work across the whole ecosystem in a > consistent way make us a stronger choice for development work which may > eventually end up on Enterprise Linux in production. To echo on the ecosystem comment. There are things "inside", "on top", "alongside" or "under" a distribution. Fedora takes the view that everything inside should be consistent without redundancy. This is extremely useful and important. But Fedora does not have a policy for the other elements - what should be on top, how should it be on top for example. A while back Fedora started the ISV SIG and Greg had a beautiful blog post [1] on why that initiative failed. It failed because the communication to the ISVs was that they should be inside Fedora and what they wanted to be is on top of Fedora. Software Collections is hope of creating a distinction between the distribution and all that it contains, and an ability for 3rd parties to to create their own world on top. This always brings back the question of "what is Fedora" - folks think I am making snide remarks when I use that phrase - but the question in implicit in some of the discussion in this thread. 1 - Fedora is the linux software distribution 2 - Fedora is the community infrastructure that enables a linux distribution and an ecosystem. The two statements are quite different in their impact. [1] http://gregdekspeaks.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/why-the-fedora-isv-sig-never-caught-fire/ -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
