FAO: Programmers Quick Q?
Frank Murphy
frankly3d at gmail.com
Mon Jun 29 17:11:55 UTC 2009
On 29/06/09 17:17, Mat Booth wrote:
>
> As a software engineer, I am also interested in making Fedora the best
> development distro out there (I do this by packaging Eclipse plug-ins)
> and I think the formation of a SIG to look after development tools
That's why the sig should come first.
but I'm having great
> difficulty in identifying the need for a separate developer /spin/.
> Presumably the target audience (people like you and I)
Valid Point
has the
> where-with-all to discover and install their own tools and a pre-set
> list of tools chosen for them is almost never going to cut it
> (Netbeans users tend not to care for Eclipse and vice-versa)
so who is
> the spin for, exactly?
The hope will be to use it to attract new developers, whether at their
work years, or new in\out of College. To get a taste of f\l\oss
programming.
Frank
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