On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 7:47 AM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
That sounds like it will have all the problems we currently face
with
Spins. Too many choices, too much burden to produce, too little
overall benefit for deviation, too niche, too much churn from release
to release and new tech of the day. Why would we choose to repeat
those same mistakes?
While I have no vested interest in Cloud, I'd rather see an image that
is flexible with utilities for people to customize and build on top of
even if that means it isn't the tiniest, thinnest image out there.
josh
Indeed. Too many choices == nobody will use any of them, they'll go
somewhere else.
I'm probably repeating myself but here's my proposal:
1. Workstation is a winner. Keep it.
2. Replace the spins - yes, *all* of them - with a Netinstall disk
that has selectable kickstart files for installing them. It's close to
that now anyway.
3. I see no need for a separate "cloud hosting" install medium that's
any different from Server. A cloud host *is* a server.
4. Docker base image: keep it, but recognize that there's a *huge*
effort involved in getting users. Ubuntu and CentOS have the lion's
share and the bobcat's share respectively. Debian has a kitten's share
mostly because Docker recommends it. I'm using Fedora, but I'd switch
to CentOS if all the texlive packages I need were in the EPEL
repositories.