Re: Fedora Working Groups: Call for Self-Nominations

2013-11-02 Thread Kevin Kofler
Matthias Clasen wrote: On Fri, 2013-11-01 at 04:40 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Bill Nottingham wrote: And I would argue that having the user interface swing wildly in design implementation based on the current composition of an elected board that is refreshed in part every six months is

Re: Fedora Working Groups: Call for Self-Nominations

2013-11-02 Thread Mathieu Bridon
On Sat, 2013-11-02 at 16:17 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Matthias Clasen wrote: On Fri, 2013-11-01 at 04:40 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: That's a very lame excuse for sticking with an awful desktop environment as the default just because it is the status quo. Not excellent...please avoid

Re: Fedora Working Groups: Call for Self-Nominations

2013-11-01 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Fri, 2013-11-01 at 04:40 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Bill Nottingham wrote: And I would argue that having the user interface swing wildly in design implementation based on the current composition of an elected board that is refreshed in part every six months is not the sort of situation

Re: Fedora Working Groups: Call for Self-Nominations

2013-10-31 Thread Kevin Kofler
Bill Nottingham wrote: And I would argue that having the user interface swing wildly in design implementation based on the current composition of an elected board that is refreshed in part every six months is not the sort of situation that Fedora would want to be in anyway. That's a very

Re: Fedora Working Groups: Call for Self-Nominations

2013-10-25 Thread Josh Boyer
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 6:52 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 19:56 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: It is up to each WG to determine their product requirements. That includes which architectures and target users they are trying to produce a product for. We've

Re: Fedora Working Groups: Call for Self-Nominations

2013-10-24 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2013-10-04 at 07:49 -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote: We just started to support ARM, I don't think we want to drop it. I guess those three products are currently most important and other products like Embedded should go into Spins category. At least for now. Yes, we're probably

Re: Fedora Working Groups: Call for Self-Nominations

2013-10-24 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 02:29:25PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: I really think whatever the New Way Of Doing Things turns out to be, it needs to include a minimal network install image much like the current netinst.iso, built for all primary arches, as a primary deliverable. Whether that's

Re: Fedora Working Groups: Call for Self-Nominations

2013-10-24 Thread Josh Boyer
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, 2013-10-04 at 07:49 -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote: We just started to support ARM, I don't think we want to drop it. I guess those three products are currently most important and other products like

Re: Fedora Working Groups: Call for Self-Nominations

2013-10-24 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 19:56 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: It is up to each WG to determine their product requirements. That includes which architectures and target users they are trying to produce a product for. We've done a lot of work over the last few cycles to really bump ARM up to

Re: Fedora Working Groups: Call for Self-Nominations

2013-10-24 Thread inode0
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 8:52 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 19:56 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: It is up to each WG to determine their product requirements. That includes which architectures and target users they are trying to produce a product for. We've

Re: Fedora Working Groups: Call for Self-Nominations

2013-10-21 Thread Bill Nottingham
Miloslav Trmač (m...@volny.cz) said: On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 9:27 PM, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: Miloslav Trmač wrote: No, the intent was very much to change what the resulting desktop prioritizes. Quite a few FESCo members would be rather disappointed if the new

Re: Fedora Working Groups: Call for Self-Nominations

2013-10-19 Thread Kevin Kofler
Miloslav Trmač wrote: No, the intent was very much to change what the resulting desktop prioritizes. Quite a few FESCo members would be rather disappointed if the new Workstation ended up just an unchanged GNOME[1]. [snip] [1] As opposed to any of 1) non-GNOME, 2) GNOME changed by Fedora, 3)

Re: Fedora Working Groups: Call for Self-Nominations

2013-10-14 Thread Stephen Gallagher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/02/2013 05:05 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote: Hello, Two updates arising from today's FESCo meeting: On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 9:31 PM, Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org wrote: The nomination period will be at least one month from this

Re: Fedora Working Groups: Call for Self-Nominations

2013-10-11 Thread Miloslav Trmač
Hello, On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 4:20 AM, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: But the current spins will become even more second-class citizens than they are right now, whereas 2 spins of dubious value to our real-world users (Server and Cloud) get featured instead. (How many people will

Re: Fedora Working Groups: Call for Self-Nominations

2013-10-11 Thread Adam Jackson
On Fri, 2013-10-11 at 15:58 +0200, Miloslav Trmač wrote: On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 4:20 AM, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: But the current spins will become even more second-class citizens than they are right now, whereas 2 spins of dubious value to our real-world users (Server

Re: Fedora Working Groups: Call for Self-Nominations

2013-10-11 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 03:58:41PM +0200, Miloslav Trmač wrote: No, the intent was very much to change what the resulting desktop prioritizes. Quite a few FESCo members would be rather disappointed if the new Workstation ended up just an unchanged GNOME[1]. ? The intent was very much for the

Re: Fedora Working Groups: Call for Self-Nominations

2013-10-11 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 10/11/2013 01:58 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote: The fact that we don't have a successful server SIG/spin was seen as a problem that needs to be fixed, not as a reason to continue avoiding server uses. Interesting when and how was that conclusion reached? Yeah sure the server sub-community got

Re: Fedora Working Groups: Call for Self-Nominations

2013-10-11 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 03:53:39PM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: Did someone even bother to reach out to the community and ask them how they would like to move forward? ( Not that I recall any thread doing just that ) It was discussed at Flock. It was discussed on this mailing list. The

Re: Fedora Working Groups: Call for Self-Nominations

2013-10-11 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 10/11/2013 03:59 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 03:53:39PM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: Did someone even bother to reach out to the community and ask them how they would like to move forward? ( Not that I recall any thread doing just that ) It was discussed at

Re: Fedora Working Groups: Call for Self-Nominations

2013-10-11 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 04:19:00PM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 10/11/2013 03:59 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: community representatives on FESCo and the board discussed it. All of this happened in public. Which community do you feel was given no opportunity to represent their opinions?

Re: Fedora Working Groups: Call for Self-Nominations

2013-10-11 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 10/11/2013 04:27 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: Was there any attempt to reach out to the relevant sub-community was there a mail or discussion held on the server list even if only to see who where active on it? Given that the last mail to the server list was over 18 months ago, the answer is

Re: Fedora Working Groups: Call for Self-Nominations

2013-10-11 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 04:33:24PM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 10/11/2013 04:27 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: Was there any attempt to reach out to the relevant sub-community was there a mail or discussion held on the server list even if only to see who where active on it? Given that

Re: Fedora Working Groups: Call for Self-Nominations

2013-10-11 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 10/11/2013 04:41 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 04:33:24PM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 10/11/2013 04:27 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: Was there any attempt to reach out to the relevant sub-community was there a mail or discussion held on the server list even if

Re: Fedora Working Groups: Call for Self-Nominations

2013-10-11 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 04:47:34PM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 10/11/2013 04:41 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: Because there's no active server sub-community. The people interested in server work are working within the general Fedora development community, which means devel@ is the

Re: Fedora Working Groups: Call for Self-Nominations

2013-10-11 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 05:41:28PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: Because there's no active server sub-community. The people interested in server work are working within the general Fedora development community, which means devel@ is the appropriate list to reach them. I also posted to

Re: Fedora Working Groups: Call for Self-Nominations

2013-10-11 Thread Adam Jackson
On Fri, 2013-10-11 at 16:47 +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: That's quite the assumption and based on that I assume the next step planned is to kill the server list and just mobiles the people interested here right. shrug I suggest assuming good faith instead. - ajax -- devel mailing

Re: Fedora Working Groups: Call for Self-Nominations

2013-10-10 Thread Kevin Kofler
Matthew Miller wrote: On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 12:58:32AM -0400, Jens Petersen wrote: * Fedora Workstation Will this subsume Live-Desktop.iso and Live-KDE.iso? What about other current desktop Spins? Presumably some of these might have a secondary WG. Right -- one of the key things we

Re: Fedora Working Groups: Call for Self-Nominations

2013-10-10 Thread Pete Travis
On Oct 10, 2013 8:20 PM, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: Matthew Miller wrote: On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 12:58:32AM -0400, Jens Petersen wrote: * Fedora Workstation Will this subsume Live-Desktop.iso and Live-KDE.iso? What about other current desktop Spins? Presumably some

Re: Fedora Working Groups: Call for Self-Nominations

2013-10-04 Thread Marcela Mašláňová
On 10/03/2013 05:42 PM, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: On 11.09.2013 21:31, Matthew Miller wrote: Introduction Based on discussions at and around Flock, the Fedora Project Board has approved a proposal for a big change in the way we put Fedora together. Rather than presenting one

Re: Fedora Working Groups: Call for Self-Nominations

2013-10-04 Thread Stephen Gallagher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/04/2013 04:31 AM, Marcela Mašláňová wrote: On 10/03/2013 05:42 PM, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: On 11.09.2013 21:31, Matthew Miller wrote: Introduction Based on discussions at and around Flock, the Fedora Project Board has

Re: Fedora Working Groups: Call for Self-Nominations

2013-10-04 Thread Mihamina RKTMB
On 10/04/2013 02:49 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: What about Fedora Embedded? Do you plan to drop ARM support on Fedora? I can't match small credit card size devices with either Workstation, Server or Cloud group. Is this group list fixed or could be extended and on what basis? Mateusz

Re: Fedora Working Groups: Call for Self-Nominations

2013-10-04 Thread Josh Boyer
On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 8:30 AM, Mihamina RKTMB miham...@rktmb.org wrote: On 10/04/2013 02:49 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: What about Fedora Embedded? Do you plan to drop ARM support on Fedora? I can't match small credit card size devices with either Workstation, Server or Cloud group. Is this

Re: Fedora Working Groups: Call for Self-Nominations

2013-10-04 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 10/04/2013 11:49 AM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: The main change being made here is with how we are presenting *The Fedora Project* to the world. In the past, we've tried to be all things to all people, but going forward we want to pick a few specific areas that we will focus on (and market)

Re: Fedora Working Groups: Call for Self-Nominations

2013-10-04 Thread Stephen Gallagher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/04/2013 11:14 AM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 10/04/2013 11:49 AM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: The main change being made here is with how we are presenting *The Fedora Project* to the world. In the past, we've tried to be all things to all

Re: Fedora Working Groups: Call for Self-Nominations

2013-10-04 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 10/04/2013 03:44 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: Now, what was really intended by that statement that you quoted above (and I acknowledge I'm putting words in people's mouths a bit) is that Red Hat*may* flex its muscles a bit if the community were to do something extremely unlikely that would

Re: Fedora Working Groups: Call for Self-Nominations

2013-10-03 Thread Tadej Janež
Hi, On Thu, 2013-09-19 at 00:58 -0400, Jens Petersen wrote: ps I wasn't at Flock alas so I may have missed some of the earlier discussions that might already have covered some of this... some of your questions are answered in Matthew Miller's Flock presentation An Architecture for a More

Re: Fedora Working Groups: Call for Self-Nominations

2013-10-03 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 12:58:32AM -0400, Jens Petersen wrote: * Fedora Workstation Will this subsume Live-Desktop.iso and Live-KDE.iso? What about other current desktop Spins? Presumably some of these might have a secondary WG. Right -- one of the key things we need to do is work on the

Re: Fedora Working Groups: Call for Self-Nominations

2013-10-03 Thread Mateusz Marzantowicz
On 11.09.2013 21:31, Matthew Miller wrote: Introduction Based on discussions at and around Flock, the Fedora Project Board has approved a proposal for a big change in the way we put Fedora together. Rather than presenting one Fedora with multiple slightly-different install

Re: Fedora Working Groups: Call for Self-Nominations

2013-10-02 Thread Miloslav Trmač
Hello, Two updates arising from today's FESCo meeting: On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 9:31 PM, Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org wrote: The nomination period will be at least one month from this announcement. The nomination period will end on Oct 14 0:00 UTC. Membership in a Working Group is a

Re: Fedora Working Groups: Call for Self-Nominations

2013-09-18 Thread Jens Petersen
I feel this is a an exciting evolution for Fedora. At the same time of course it will be a big change, and there could be some risk of the increased complexity fragmenting Fedora development somewhat, but it should FESCo to scale to support the needs of these separate products better. I know this

Fedora Working Groups: Call for Self-Nominations

2013-09-11 Thread Matthew Miller
Introduction Based on discussions at and around Flock, the Fedora Project Board has approved a proposal for a big change in the way we put Fedora together. Rather than presenting one Fedora with multiple slightly-different install options, future Fedora will be designed, developed,

Fedora Working Groups: Call for Self-Nominations

2013-09-11 Thread Matthew Miller
Introduction Based on discussions at and around Flock, the Fedora Project Board has approved a proposal for a big change in the way we put Fedora together. Rather than presenting one Fedora with multiple slightly-different install options, future Fedora will be designed, developed,