I'm going to extend this by a week and cancel tomorrow's Server SIG
meeting. People have been very distracted with dealing with Beta blockers
and we've extended this request to a wider audience (it got picked up by
certain news sources). Let's give it a little more time to percolate.
If you have thoughts, I'd really like to hear them.
On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 8:04 AM Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
Quick reminder to please send me your thoughts on this; I'll be
collating
them tonight and sending them out for us to discuss tomorrow.
On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 4:58 PM Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
> During today's Server SIG IRC meeting[1], we discussed plans for Fedora
> 29 and onwards. In particular, we've decided that we're probably going to
> retire the concept of "server roles" from our overall goals. Adam
> Williamson -- representing Fedora QA -- raised the point that the related
> release criteria and test goals come directly from the Fedora Server
> Product Requirements Document (PRD) [2]. He correctly pointed out that we
> should start by revising the PRD and have that filter down ultimately into
> the release criteria.
>
> Looking at the Fedora Wiki, the Fedora Server PRD is now over four years
> old and thus is ripe for an update. To that end, we're going to start with
> a brainstorming exercise to update our Mission Statement. The current
> statement reads:
>
> Fedora Server is a common base platform with "featured server roles"
> built on top of it. We commit to produce, test, and distribute these server
> roles.
>
> Clearly, this is no longer going to work for us, since we're planning to
> retire the server role concept. So what I'd like is this: If you are
> reading this, I'd like you to send me your view of what the
> purpose/goals/efforts of Fedora Server should be over the next 2-3 years
> (or even longer). I would ask that you send your thoughts directly to me,
> not as a reply on the list. This is so as not to influence anyone else's
> answers or to start a debate before the brainstorming is concluded. I will
> gather the responses and send them back out to the list as a complete set
> on Monday. The floodgates should then open to try to find the common
> elements and start turning them into an actionable strategy (the discussion
> will also continue at the Server SIG meeting on Tuesday).
>
> Once that discussion settles down, I will take the major points we come
> to agreement on and start putting together a draft of a new Products
> Requirement Document. We can then discuss and tweak the PRD up to the
> Fedora 29 System-Wide Change Proposal deadline, at which point the Server
> SIG will submit its F29 Changes to FESCo.
>
> Thank you all in advance for your help with this.
>
>
> [1]
>
https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2018-03-20/serversig.2...
> [2]
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Server/Product_Requirements_Document
>
>
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