Aligning targets

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Sep 28 18:29:05 UTC 2009


Paul W. Frields (stickster at gmail.com) said: 
> Our best statement of target audience for Fedora is found here:
>   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Overview#Is_Fedora_for_me.3F
> 
> We may be able to resolve, or help FESCo resolve, engineering
> decisions if we extend this description to include some exemplar users
> who better represent this target.  In other words, we can draw a
> better picture of "Uma," "Dietrich," and "Sayyid,"[1] each
> representing someone for whom we want to make technical decisions.
> 
> Then the questions we need to ask become, do our current processes --
> be they for testing/QA, release, package updates, or what-have-you --
> support those users?  And how do we prioritize conflicts?

I'm not sure those guidelines lend themselves to particular use cases;
the only one that would seem to apply would be the one about 'latest
stable software', which would imply we move *too* fast right now in
some cases. (And the lack of tying "latest stable" to a release means
more fuel for the fewer updates/more updates debate.)

Bill




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