On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 3:38 PM, Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
This is a draft of the proposal I'm presenting at Flock, "An
Architecture
for a More Agile Fedora" (<
http://sched.co/19ugKGM>).
(The more
high-level comment.)
This essentially explicitly gives up on the idea of "Fedora" or,
implicitly, "Linux" as a "platform"^W/"deployment
target"/"ecosystem"
== "something you write applications for", and replaces it with,
basically "the kernel+libc that other deployment targets/ecosystems
can use to run".
It gives up on "Fedora" or "Linux" as a general competitor to
Windows;
Fedora becomes "just one of the commodity systems one can run Rails
4.0.x/Rails 3.2.x/node.js/JBoss/GNOME OS on".
We've been slowly and silently moving in the proposed direction of
comparatively fragmented and independent ecosystems for some time,
just because there wasn't a consensus on doing the opposite. We do
have a choice of the direction, however.
Should we, do we want to, (and even, can we at all) get this project
on the same page behind a single coherent Fedora operating system
(from the users' point of view) and deployment target / API (from the
developers' point of view)? Or are we already "doomed" into
supporting the fragmenting ecosystems best as we can?
Mirek