Target market?

[Stephen John Smoogen]

Shouldnt we both be in bed right now?

On 7/25/07, seth vidal <skvidal at linux.duke.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 00:52 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>
> > For me the lack of Red Hat leadership has been a long problem. It
> > comes across as "we want this to be community driven." but that ends
> > up with a problem whenever some internal issue crosses it. Most of
> > this comes from the Red Hat people really trying to be nice guys all
> > the time, and not tick off anyone.. but it comes across as hidden
> > agendas and other issues.
> >
> > At this point, I think we will be stumbling through F8 and probably F9
> > unless some people stand up and make some decisions that are going to
> > tick off people... or we decide that we are just focusing on becoming
> > the Debian of the RH world... and helping others build their Ubuntus
> > off of it.
>
> this is the heart of the issue. It's been suggested that Fedora should
> act more like ubuntu in various ways. But ubuntu is only like that b/c
> canonical the company has said it will be like that.
>

The counter point to that would be that Fedora is that way because
either Red Hat has said it will be like that, or has not said enough.

> where do we draw the line around what is fedora? Does fedora include all
> the packagers, contributors, translators and people working on
> infrastructure? Does fedora include all of the above and all the folks
> who work for red hat and whose software end up in fedora? Are the people
> developing libvirt, for example, are they fedora developers or red hat
> developers?  Where we draw that line determines where our technical
> direction comes from. Where our direction comes from should decide what
> our target market needs to be and needs to be communicating and
> acquiring goals from the user base of fedora.
>

Yes, I think these are some really hard questions that need to be
answered. There are days where I think that the Fedora Core should
just have been just enough to spin other groups and everything else
was a SIG.

kernel+glibc+bash+python+gcc+revisor

If the Gnome people want a shiney clean desktop they build a SIG and
push it so that their defined desktop is ready for a spin within 2
weeks of X fedora core is done. etc.

Well I am off to bed now.

-- 
Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed
in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"