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On 04/21/2014 06:23 PM, Przemek Klosowski wrote:
On 04/21/2014 01:27 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
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> On 04/21/2014 01:07 PM, Haïkel Guémar wrote:
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> We should think on how we could improve collaboration with
> third-party repos, fedmsg/copr might be part of the technical
> solution. How about a Fedora Partnership Program ? We could open
> up at a certain extent our infrastructure and collaborate with
> software editors to make sure that their products have some
> support in Fedora.
>
>
> I love this idea and I think we should probably start another
> thread on it when this one starts to die down, assuming that the
> general sense is that the community wants to improve our
> third-party/non-FOSS relationships.
The choices we make are determined by the possibilities we are
presented with. While we all agree that it's neither possible nor
desirable to prevent installation of whatever tools the end user
wants, the Freedom absolutists would like to put up a barrier
against non-Free software, or at least want Fedora to abstain from
helping. I personally prefer that choice to be given to the users,
who should be able to indicate what they want on their systems.
Now, these abstract choices take shape during software
installation, so it seems to me that they should be entered as user
preferences in the software installer to shape the results of
software search. In other words, ask the user what they want to
see, and then let them choose from the results.
We've discussed several such values-based choices:
- the license conditions (Free vs. encumbered vs. non-Free and
commercial)
- tolerance for gritty old commandline tools vs. polished apps
only
- choice between full functionality vs. small size and/or speed
I think they all can be seen as user preferences in the software
installer discovery process, making the installer central to how
the resulting system is put together. This is consistent with how
Droid and iOS make software 'stores' and installation a central
point of interaction for configuring their systems.
I'd like to summon Máirín Duffy into this conversation here, if she's
willing. She's done a fair amount of research into exactly how many
and what kind of questions are reasonable to ask a user in startup
before scaring them off or confusing them. If this is something we're
interested in following up with, it would be good to have the
interaction designers involved.
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