new to list, first post

[Jon Ciesla]

David Nalley wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:30 AM, <wdepli at mikrotec.com> wrote:
>   
>> I am new to this list, and I am looking forward to hearing the discussion.
>>
>> But thanks to bob and others responding to my post on fedoraforum.org
>> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=227101 , I think I would
>> like to broach a subject.  My apologies if this is already a burning issue
>> -- I am at work, and should not spend time browsing the archives.
>>
>> Is Fedora really gaining that much ground with every bi-yearly release to
>> justify that pace?
>>
>> After all Red Hat is not a desktop but a server, right?  And Chrome could
>> kill current races to find a desktop to compete with Windows.  So why not
>> concentrate on what Red Hat/Fedora does best?  Let Ubuntu grind out Gnome
>> and KDE enhancements.  How often does Solaris release desktop distros?
>>
>> Thanks again for letting me be a party to the discussion.
>>
>> D_bot
>>     
>
>
> Welcome to the list.
>
> So the question that jumps out of me, is what arena are you measure
> the ground gained in?
>
> There are clearly some things that Fedora cares about, but doesn't
> necessarily prioritize, and in many of those areas, we probably gain
> little ground, and perhaps even lose ground because of our priorities.
>
> Fedora's priority is to be a place of innovation, to be the best of
> openource right now, and those priorities require rapid releases. The
> pace is gruelling, and how some of the members of the community keep
> up remains a mystery to me. (I fully expect to discover that Jesse is
> really a set of triplets committed to Fedora)
>   
Android triplets.  From the future.  Running Fedora 13, hence the irc 
handle.  You're just now figuring this out? :)

> Also, please note, that Red Hat != Fedora - though Red Hat certainly
> has an interest in Fedora and Fedora is the upstream for RHEL; much
> like kernel.org is the upstream for Fedora's and Ubuntu's kernel.
>
> I think you'll find that there is really far more innovation that
> occurs here (yes desktop innovation too) than elsewhere, not to
> diminish the work of others, but between the huge community and the
> dedicated engineers from RH that are working with upstream projects
> like Gnome, most features appear here first (because we closely track
> upstream, and becase many of those features, like NetworkManager, are
> largely written by people in Fedora)
>
> Now - all of that said - what kind of work in Fedora can we get you involved in?
>
>   


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