On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 4:58 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Thu, 2014-01-30 at 16:29 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > That wasn't necessarily what I was suggesting, it was more of an open
> > suggestion than a specific implementation idea. There are probably
> > approaches that don't involve the "Workstation product" per se
being a
> > choose-your-own-adventure, but somehow allow for the existence of
> > alternatives. I think someone floated the idea of some kind of
> > sub-product system already, for instance.
>
> If people want alternatives to exist, there's no reason to somehow
> prohibit them from doing that. Nor do I think we'd want to even think
> about preventing them. I don't necessarily think those alternatives
> should be grouped or branded under Workstation though.
>
> I feel like I'm not understanding what you're asking. Could you maybe
> try to elaborate a bit more with examples?
OK, let me take another shot :)
As I suggested on devel@, conceiving of Fedora in the 'three product
design' - Fedora is the Workstation, Cloud and Server products - leaves
the status of things that were previous Fedora but do not fit neatly
into that 'product' definition somewhat up in the air. Just as notting
put it, what exactly is the status of spins, especially alternative
desktop spins?
In my mind the KDE spin is the only one that doesn't have a clear cut
status in the new world. That's possibly because of some assumptions
I've made that may or may not be accurate. Anyway.
Workstation WG could say you want to take a shot at resolving that
problem somehow; I'm just asking if that's something you're interested
in doing, or if you'd rather it be resolved through some other
group/process.
Ah. To be honest, I think that's up to the FESCo/Board level. There
are spins that extend beyond just choice of DE, and people could want
to create different spins of Server, etc. So I personally wouldn't
advocate for the Workstation WG to solve that issue. It's definitely
something that needs to be worked out, I just think it needs to be
done at a higher level.
josh