= Proposed System Wide Change: Let's Label Our Variants! = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Label_Our_Variants Owner(s): * Matthew Miller <mattdm fedoraproject org> * Mohan Boddu <mohanboddu fedoraproject org> Start using the VARIANT and VARIANT_ID fields in /etc/os-release for Spins, Labs and the base container image rather than just the main Fedora Editions. == Detailed description == Right now, we use the VARIANT field (and machine-readable VARIANT_ID) in /etc/os-release) only for the main Fedora Editions (and Fedora Cloud Base, because of its history as an edition previously). This means we can't tell the difference between a KDE desktop spin, a container image, or just a generic netinstall constructed into a custom system unlike any of our various flavors. Let's start using it widely. == Scope == * Proposal owners: Update the fedora-release package with subpackages for the various non-edition outputs. The "convert-to-edition" script may also be extended to handle non-editions, but this is not a required part of this change proposal. * Other developers: Maintainers of spins and labs will need to add the appropriate fedora-release-… subpackage to the appropriate kickstart file or comps group. * Release engineering: Release Engineering owns the fedora-release package. * List of deliverables: Workstation and Server deliverables already contain this, and so are not affected. The KDE Plasma Desktop Spin will be changed. There is no overall change to the list of deliverables itself. * Policies and guidelines: There was a previous decision to only do this for Editions. This change would update that. We would also update the Spins documentation to add this as a new step in that pricess. * Trademark approval: not needed for this Change -- Jan Kuřík JBoss EAP Program Manager Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkynova 99/71, 612 45 Brno, Czech Republic _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
