Target market?

[Luis Villa]

On 7/23/07, seth vidal <skvidal at linux.duke.edu> wrote:
> 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.

I'd suggest there are two different levels here:
* what target market/vision does fedora have? these are big, permanent
things, not things that can be 'done' in any given release.
* then there are specific things done to implement the vision in any
given release.

Luis