On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 12:05 PM, John Harris <johnmh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
The easiest way to make any of the Spins more accessible, for them to
have any
chance comparable to the prominent advertising of Workstation and
similar
options, would be to make them more prominent on the "getfedora"
index. This
also have a huge effect on SEO.
So the reason spins are not very visible -- and ought to stay not very
visible -- is that they don't get the same level of attention as the
main products, and we don't really want anybody to download those
unless they know in advance what they are doing. In particular, we
really don't want Fedora to be judged by the quality of its spins and
labs. There are a lot of them, and it's just not plausible to keep up
with quality control for every one.
The Plasma spin is perhaps an exception here. I could totally see that
one being elevated to the level of Fedora product: "Fedora Plasma" or
something like that. I wouldn't really mind having two desktop
products, myself. We just can't create Fedora products for every single
desktop out there, or the download page is going to become way too hard
to navigate, and users will become less-likely to wind up with the
versions of Fedora that we want to promote. So if we promote KDE to a
product, I'd say we'd have to draw the line there, and I'd argue that
would make sense due to KDE's outsized importance to the Fedora
community relative to other spins, and the QA it already receives
(especially its blocker bug eligibility). I assume we fear branding
difficulties if we have multiple UIs for Fedora? Perhaps it'd be a huge
mistake. But the potential benefits of attracting more KDE users and
developers to Fedora might well outweigh the cost! It's at least worth
seriously considering.
Michael
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