On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 04:30:32PM +0200, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
> Whenever I go to a tech meetup or talk to someone from a new
startup
> company, their developers are inevitably using a different (usually
> proprietary) desktop OS, plus a non-Fedora distribution on their code.
> We're being left behind and left out. It doesn't matter how
> theoretically great we are if we end up with no users.
How does the proposal actually improve this? Giving various SIGs more
freedom to manage various stacks makes neither the core nor the stacks
automatically any more attractive to anyone. (Even allowing stacks to
evolve separately from the core and more in tune with upstream
releases doesn't make the Fedora version of the stack automatically
any more attractive than just installing the upstream version in the
way upstream documents.)
It doesn't make it automatically more attractive, but from the feedback I've
gotten so far, the general idea _does_ make it more attractive overall. And,
it gives us in general and the SIGs in specific a better place from which to
engage in conversation.
And, if the answer is that Fedora ends up being a great place to install the
upstream version in the way upstream documents, is that really a problem?
[I'm going to reply to the rest of this message in a separate thread.]
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