-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04/21/2014 06:23 PM, Przemek Klosowski wrote: > On 04/21/2014 01:27 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: >> >> On 04/21/2014 01:07 PM, Haïkel Guémar wrote: >> >> We should think on how we could improve collaboration with >> third-party repos, fedmsg/copr might be part of the technical >> solution. How about a Fedora Partnership Program ? We could open >> up at a certain extent our infrastructure and collaborate with >> software editors to make sure that their products have some >> support in Fedora. >> >> >> I love this idea and I think we should probably start another >> thread on it when this one starts to die down, assuming that the >> general sense is that the community wants to improve our >> third-party/non-FOSS relationships. > > The choices we make are determined by the possibilities we are > presented with. While we all agree that it's neither possible nor > desirable to prevent installation of whatever tools the end user > wants, the Freedom absolutists would like to put up a barrier > against non-Free software, or at least want Fedora to abstain from > helping. I personally prefer that choice to be given to the users, > who should be able to indicate what they want on their systems. > > Now, these abstract choices take shape during software > installation, so it seems to me that they should be entered as user > preferences in the software installer to shape the results of > software search. In other words, ask the user what they want to > see, and then let them choose from the results. > > We've discussed several such values-based choices: > > - the license conditions (Free vs. encumbered vs. non-Free and > commercial) > > - tolerance for gritty old commandline tools vs. polished apps > only > > - choice between full functionality vs. small size and/or speed > > I think they all can be seen as user preferences in the software > installer discovery process, making the installer central to how > the resulting system is put together. This is consistent with how > Droid and iOS make software 'stores' and installation a central > point of interaction for configuring their systems. > I'd like to summon Máirín Duffy into this conversation here, if she's willing. She's done a fair amount of research into exactly how many and what kind of questions are reasonable to ask a user in startup before scaring them off or confusing them. If this is something we're interested in following up with, it would be good to have the interaction designers involved. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlNWVeoACgkQeiVVYja6o6P39ACfSzLZxvhNpsSeA/oJFBQ2+KQ7 HGIAoLGOCgXXKMeuzYZRytAhcfKOp5w+ =f0mB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
