Target market?

seth vidal skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Tue Jul 24 02:30:22 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 22:10 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> (warning: some of you have seen this rant before)
> 
> Mike McGrath (mmcgrath at redhat.com) said: 
> > What is our target market supposed to be?
> 
> We don't have one! Seriously, I have yet to see anything that shows that
> we have a coherent market, a plan for attack, or *anything* along those
> lines.
> 
> So, we muddle along. Since no one has a plan or a target market, we
> implement whatever features the developers happen to think of, or random
> features vaguely relating to future enterprise development. Or we just
> incorporate the latest upstream.

<snip excellent summary of the issues>

So let's decide, then. Let's put the set of things we could be focused
on up. If we have 10 things we can focus on then we have 5 points to
delegate to each. We count them all up - the top 5 things are ALL we do
for F9 and F10. 

how does that sound?
-sv





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