On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Kevin Fenzi <kevin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Greetings. > > I've whipped up the early ideas of a way to replace (most) spins with > something that is more generic and useful. I have signed up for a > fudcon session to brainstorm on this idea and see if it can be beaten > into a plan/schedule/feature, or if it's not going to work for whatever > reason. > > I have a very brainstormy/draft wiki page outlining the idea at: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_formulas > > The short version: > > Setup a infrastructure/framework around a collection of ansible > playbooks to allow our users to simply download a formula for what they > want to do and have a curated setup made for them using Fedora > packages. > > Want a electionics lab setup? download. review. answer some > questions. click. > Want a LAMP stack? download. review. answer some questions. click. > Want a openstack demo cluster? ditto. > Want a graphics designer workstation? ditto. > > Note that this assumes you have already installed Fedora, it's a post > install setup. This would mean that we should continue to do spins for > various desktops as people may way to install their desktop as a base > before adding on formulas. Looking at the distribution of even the desktop spins it jumps out at me that only the KDE spin seems to exceed 100 downloads while we distribute all of them in the thousands via pressed multi-desktop media which we also make available to users for download or transfer to USB as a group. This "indirect" distribution of desktop spins is likely close to two orders of magnitude larger than the direct download distribution. From a marketing perspective I think the multi-desktop media form of distribution achieves the desired ends even in the absence of pushing individual desktop spins to all the mirrors. Which makes me wonder if we should consider having a pre-desktop base with formulas for the desktops as well? Even if the answer to that is no I can imagine lots of potential uses for which the existence of a desktop isn't necessary or even desirable. John -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
