Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-25 Thread Florian Weimer
On 04/22/2014 12:15 PM, Nikos Roussos wrote: There is also a third group, somewhere in between, who believe that's ok to ship Free Software that connects and interops with proprietary services (gtalk, aws, etc), but it's not ok to ship proprietary software, metadata about proprietary software

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-24 Thread Christian Schaller
with 'implementation'. Christian - Original Message - From: drago01 drag...@gmail.com To: Development discussions related to Fedora devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2014 4:37:40 PM Subject: Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 4:24 PM

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-24 Thread Alec Leamas
On 4/24/14, Christian Schaller cscha...@redhat.com wrote: So decisions need to be general to allow us to look for a variety of options to fulfill them. Lets say Fedora decided we want to make it easier for our users to get more multimedia codecs. We would not get the go ahead from legal to

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-24 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 24 April 2014 02:49, Christian Schaller cscha...@redhat.com wrote: Well my point is I spoke to Red Hat legal before I even posted the original proposal to open up to more 3rd party repositories some Months ago. There are a lot of repositories that it is perfectly fine for Fedora to include

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-24 Thread Stephen Gallagher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/24/2014 11:01 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On 24 April 2014 02:49, Christian Schaller cscha...@redhat.com mailto:cscha...@redhat.com wrote: Well my point is I spoke to Red Hat legal before I even posted the original proposal to

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-24 Thread Josh Boyer
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 11:56 AM, Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/24/2014 11:01 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On 24 April 2014 02:49, Christian Schaller cscha...@redhat.com mailto:cscha...@redhat.com wrote: Well my point

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-24 Thread Ken Dreyer
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.com wrote: OK cool. What is the plan for when repositories change what they are carrying and add stuff that may be legal for them but not for others? Will there be periodic reviews to make sure that this hasn't happened or some

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-24 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Thu, 24 Apr 2014 10:04:41 -0600 Ken Dreyer ktdre...@ktdreyer.com wrote: One practical difference is that there's no bug trackers for individual COPRs. At least when a package is in Fedora, communication can happen in a central place (Bugzilla), and there's an FE-LEGAL blocker mechanism,

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-24 Thread Ken Dreyer
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 10:07 AM, Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com wrote: On Thu, 24 Apr 2014 10:04:41 -0600 Ken Dreyer ktdre...@ktdreyer.com wrote: One practical difference is that there's no bug trackers for individual COPRs. At least when a package is in Fedora, communication can happen in a

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-24 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 24 April 2014 09:56, Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/24/2014 11:01 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On 24 April 2014 02:49, Christian Schaller cscha...@redhat.com mailto:cscha...@redhat.com wrote: Well my point

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-24 Thread Christian Schaller
- Original Message - From: Stephen John Smoogen smo...@gmail.com To: Development discussions related to Fedora devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2014 6:46:03 PM Subject: Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations On 24 April 2014 09:56, Stephen

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-24 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 24 April 2014 16:06, Christian Schaller cscha...@redhat.com wrote: These were things that people were wondering when this came up in the past. Once again this is becoming a debate about hypotheticals which rarely leads anywhere constructive. It actually isn't hypothetical. I have had

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-23 Thread Christian Schaller
sgall...@redhat.com, devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2014 4:10:49 PM Subject: Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations On 04/22/2014 09:13 AM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: So one of the key questions here is whether the current policy on essentially hiding

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-23 Thread Alec Leamas
On 4/22/14, Przemek Klosowski przemek.klosow...@nist.gov wrote: [cut] Everything in our repos is free, so putting the choice in the installer seems off to me. Our policy (which is complex and obviously driven by things stronger than the UX) generally leaves it to users post-install to add

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-23 Thread drago01
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Alec Leamas leamas.a...@gmail.com wrote: There are some aspects on this: - I don't think Fedora is able add non-free, patent-encumbered sw in e. g., in the way Ubuntu does - it fails on the fact that US law is applicable [...] This has been repeated multiple

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-23 Thread Alec Leamas
On 4/23/14, drago01 drag...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Alec Leamas leamas.a...@gmail.com wrote: There are some aspects on this: - I don't think Fedora is able add non-free, patent-encumbered sw in e. g., in the way Ubuntu does - it fails on the fact that US law is

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-23 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 23 April 2014 02:29, Christian Schaller cscha...@redhat.com wrote: Hi Mairin, Not sure exactly where you are coming from in terms of wanting legal to weigh in, but in general I don't think legals opinion is very relevant and this point. The first step here should always be us as a project

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-23 Thread drago01
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 4:24 PM, Stephen John Smoogen smo...@gmail.com wrote: On 23 April 2014 02:29, Christian Schaller cscha...@redhat.com wrote: Hi Mairin, Not sure exactly where you are coming from in terms of wanting legal to weigh in, but in general I don't think legals opinion is

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-22 Thread Nikos Roussos
On Mon, 2014-04-21 at 08:36 -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote: The language in this Foundation is sometimes dangerously unclear. For example, it pretty much explicitly forbids the use of non-free components in the creation of Fedora (sorry, folks: you can't use Photoshop to create your package

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-22 Thread Christian Schaller
- Original Message - From: Nikos Roussos comzer...@fedoraproject.org There is also a third group, somewhere in between, who believe that's ok to ship Free Software that connects and interops with proprietary services (gtalk, aws, etc), but it's not ok to ship proprietary software,

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-22 Thread Nikos Roussos
On Tue, 2014-04-22 at 06:46 -0400, Christian Schaller wrote: - Original Message - From: Nikos Roussos comzer...@fedoraproject.org There is also a third group, somewhere in between, who believe that's ok to ship Free Software that connects and interops with proprietary services

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-22 Thread Stephen Gallagher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/21/2014 06:23 PM, Przemek Klosowski wrote: On 04/21/2014 01:27 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: On 04/21/2014 01:07 PM, Haïkel Guémar wrote: We should think on how we could improve collaboration with third-party repos, fedmsg/copr might be

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-22 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 04/22/2014 11:43 AM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: I'd like to summon Máirín Duffy into this conversation here, if she's willing. She's done a fair amount of research into exactly how many and what kind of questions are reasonable to ask a user in startup before scaring them off or confusing

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-22 Thread Stephen Gallagher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/21/2014 05:31 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On 21 April 2014 11:19, Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.com mailto:sgall...@redhat.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/21/2014 01:08 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-22 Thread Stephen Gallagher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/22/2014 07:40 AM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 04/22/2014 11:43 AM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: I'd like to summon Máirín Duffy into this conversation here, if she's willing. She's done a fair amount of research into exactly how many and

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-22 Thread Máirín Duffy
Hi folks, On 04/22/2014 07:40 AM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: Is it safe to assume that research is backup by public usability tests? On 04/22/2014 07:55 AM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: When I invoke Máirín, I usually find it safe to make that assumption, but I'll let her speak for herself on

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-22 Thread Stephen Gallagher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/22/2014 08:55 AM, Máirín Duffy wrote: Hi folks, On 04/22/2014 07:40 AM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: Is it safe to assume that research is backup by public usability tests? On 04/22/2014 07:55 AM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: When I invoke

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-22 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
- Original Message - Le lundi 21 avril 2014 à 11:17 -0400, Stephen Gallagher a écrit : I'm trying to assert with this proposal that the best way for us to advance free and open source software is to continue shipping only open-source software, while making it easy for users to

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-22 Thread H . Guémar
2014-04-22 16:10 GMT+02:00 Máirín Duffy du...@fedoraproject.org: To be honest, I'm fairly uncomfortable discussing this without Fedora Legal weighing in. I don't see any problem with re-visiting the decisions made along this path, but I also am pretty confident the folks who decided things

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-22 Thread Máirín Duffy
On 04/22/2014 09:13 AM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: So one of the key questions here is whether the current policy on essentially hiding (protecting?) the user from these external software sources is truly in keeping with our Foundations, Mission and general project health. To be honest, I'm

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-22 Thread Máirín Duffy
Hi, On 04/22/2014 10:14 AM, H. Guémar wrote: Well, we may end up lawyered by Legal, but I think it's good we try to realign ourselves and clear up few misunderstandings. How do you propose we do that? ~m -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-22 Thread Matthew Miller
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 05:50:20PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: Board seats should absolutely keep in mind various aspects of the entire project, but we need less partisanship and more open-mindedness at this level. We need people willing to work together to find out what is best for the Project

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-22 Thread Stephen Gallagher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/22/2014 11:17 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 05:50:20PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: Board seats should absolutely keep in mind various aspects of the entire project, but we need less partisanship and more open-mindedness at

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-22 Thread Przemek Klosowski
On 04/22/2014 08:55 AM, Máirín Duffy wrote: Some of the choices Przemek suggested don't make sense depending on the context. E.g., full functionality vs. small size / speed I think has a different meaning depending on whether you have a workstation target (which, either way, will include X) or

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-22 Thread Josh Boyer
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 05:50:20PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: Board seats should absolutely keep in mind various aspects of the entire project, but we need less partisanship and more open-mindedness at this level.

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-22 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 22 April 2014 05:53, Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/21/2014 05:31 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On 21 April 2014 11:19, Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.com mailto:sgall...@redhat.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-22 Thread Miloslav Trmač
2014-04-21 17:56 GMT+02:00 Eric H. Christensen spa...@fedoraproject.org: On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 08:36:55AM -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote: ...I'd like to suggest a fifth Foundation, one to ultimately supersede all the rest: Functional. I think anytime anyone suggests a new foundation

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-22 Thread Miloslav Trmač
2014-04-21 19:07 GMT+02:00 Haïkel Guémar hgue...@fedoraproject.org: Le 21/04/2014 18:37, Stephen Gallagher a écrit : I spoke too strongly there, I think. We do however give a *very* strong impression that using non-FOSS solutions for anything at all is unwelcome at best. Consider the recent

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-22 Thread Miloslav Trmač
2014-04-21 19:37 GMT+02:00 Eric H. Christensen spa...@fedoraproject.org: And how are these contributors going to contribute to their proprietary solutions that we now provide for them? They aren't; isn't that a *benefit* for the open solutions? How do we support something that is simply

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-22 Thread Eric H. Christensen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 08:33:55PM +0200, Miloslav Trmač wrote: I find it difficult to believe that most users [don't have Flash installed]. AFAIK there is no data to say either way, and anecdotal evidence from around here isn't supportive.

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-22 Thread Miloslav Trmač
2014-04-22 21:31 GMT+02:00 Eric H. Christensen spa...@fedoraproject.org: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 08:33:55PM +0200, Miloslav Trmač wrote: I find it difficult to believe that most users [don't have Flash installed]. AFAIK there is no data to

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-22 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Tue, 22 Apr 2014 15:31:11 -0400 Eric H. Christensen spa...@fedoraproject.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 08:33:55PM +0200, Miloslav Trmač wrote: I find it difficult to believe that most users [don't have Flash installed]. AFAIK there

The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-21 Thread Stephen Gallagher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lately, I've been thinking a lot about Fedora's Foundations: “Freedom, Friends, Features, First, particularly in relation to some very sticky questions about where certain things fit (such as third-party repositories, free and non-free web services,

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-21 Thread ニール・ゴンパ
I agree with this completely. Functional capability matters quite a lot and we seem to forget this a lot lately. On Apr 21, 2014 7:35 AM, Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lately, I've been thinking a lot about Fedora's Foundations:

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-21 Thread Haïkel Guémar
Le 21/04/2014 14:36, Stephen Gallagher a écrit : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lately, I've been thinking a lot about Fedora's Foundations: “Freedom, Friends, Features, First, particularly in relation to some very sticky questions about where certain things fit (such as

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-21 Thread Stephen Gallagher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/21/2014 09:08 AM, Haïkel Guémar wrote: Le 21/04/2014 14:36, Stephen Gallagher a écrit : Lately, I've been thinking a lot about Fedora's Foundations: “Freedom, Friends, Features, First, particularly in relation to some very sticky questions

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-21 Thread Kevin Fenzi
...snip... IMHO, it feels wrong to call this it's own foundation. A foundation is a core value of our community, and this seems like a harsh reality we have to live with. I guess I would prefer to have the 'freedom' foundation clarified some rather than adding this as a foundation. I guess it

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-21 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Mon, 2014-04-21 at 08:36 -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote: At the same time, we regularly allow the packaging of software that can interoperate with non-free software; we allow Pidgin and other IM clients to talk to Google and AOL, we allow email clients to connect to Microsoft Exchange,

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-21 Thread Frank Ch. Eigler
sgallagh wrote: [...] Sometimes this goal prevents us from taking the easy way out by including proprietary or patent encumbered software in Fedora, or using those kinds of products in our other project work. [...] The language in this Foundation is sometimes dangerously unclear. For

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-21 Thread Matthew Miller
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 08:36:55AM -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote: To make things clear: I'm personally closer to the second camp than the first. In fact, in keeping with the subject of this email, I'd like to suggest a fifth Foundation, one to ultimately supersede all the rest: Functional.

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-21 Thread Matthew Miller
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 10:52:24AM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: existing features foundation. (Features represents our commitment to excellence.) Putting friends, features, and first in servitude to that doesn't feel right. Errr, friends, freedom, and first. *drinks more coffee* -- Matthew

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-21 Thread inode0
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 7:36 AM, Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.com wrote: Lately, I've been thinking a lot about Fedora's Foundations: “Freedom, Friends, Features, First, particularly in relation to some very sticky questions about where certain things fit (such as third-party

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-21 Thread Stephen Gallagher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/21/2014 10:52 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 08:36:55AM -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote: To make things clear: I'm personally closer to the second camp than the first. In fact, in keeping with the subject of this email, I'd

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-21 Thread Stephen Gallagher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/21/2014 11:02 AM, inode0 wrote: On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 7:36 AM, Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.com wrote: Lately, I've been thinking a lot about Fedora's Foundations: “Freedom, Friends, Features, First, particularly in relation to some

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-21 Thread Matthew Miller
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 11:17:41AM -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote: Well, the problem I have with the Foundations is that by the way we have defined them, we've very clearly identified them as equal to one another. I'm not sure that this is sensible, particularly with regards to the Freedom

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-21 Thread Eric H. Christensen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 08:36:55AM -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote: ...I'd like to suggest a fifth Foundation, one to ultimately supersede all the rest: Functional. I think anytime anyone suggests a new foundation that supersedes all of what

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-21 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 08:40:03AM -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: ...snip... IMHO, it feels wrong to call this it's own foundation. A foundation is a core value of our community, and this seems like a harsh reality we have to live with. I also have a hard time envisioning functionality at the

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-21 Thread Stephen Gallagher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/21/2014 11:56 AM, Eric H. Christensen wrote: On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 08:36:55AM -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote: ...I'd like to suggest a fifth Foundation, one to ultimately supersede all the rest: Functional. I think anytime anyone

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-21 Thread Stephen Gallagher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/21/2014 12:37 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: What about solutions that have no useful FOSS analog? Are you expecting that someone who uses Adobe Lightroom all the time should switch to Fedora and write a brand-new post-processing engine

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-21 Thread Michael Scherer
Le lundi 21 avril 2014 à 11:56 -0400, Eric H. Christensen a écrit : On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 08:36:55AM -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote: Now, let me be further clear on this: I am not in any way advocating the use of closed-source software or services. I am not suggesting that we start

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-21 Thread Michael Scherer
Le lundi 21 avril 2014 à 11:17 -0400, Stephen Gallagher a écrit : I'm trying to assert with this proposal that the best way for us to advance free and open source software is to continue shipping only open-source software, while making it easy for users to *transition*. By setting a

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-21 Thread inode0
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.com wrote: On 04/21/2014 11:56 AM, Eric H. Christensen wrote: On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 08:36:55AM -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote: ...I'd like to suggest a fifth Foundation, one to ultimately supersede all the rest: Functional.

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-21 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 12:37:57 -0400, Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.com wrote: I don't think it's unreasonable for us to allow them to use Chrome from the Google repository. I don't think it's unreasonable to allow them to use Steam from the Valve repository. Device drivers get into

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-21 Thread Haïkel Guémar
Le 21/04/2014 18:37, Stephen Gallagher a écrit : I spoke too strongly there, I think. We do however give a *very* strong impression that using non-FOSS solutions for anything at all is unwelcome at best. Consider the recent discussions around GNOME Software where we have 1) Forbidden it from

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-21 Thread Stephen Gallagher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/21/2014 01:08 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 12:37:57 -0400, Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.com wrote: I don't think it's unreasonable for us to allow them to use Chrome from the Google repository. I don't think it's

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-21 Thread Eric H. Christensen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 07:04:03PM +0200, Michael Scherer wrote: Le lundi 21 avril 2014 à 11:56 -0400, Eric H. Christensen a écrit : On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 08:36:55AM -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote: Now, let me be further clear on this: I

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-21 Thread Stephen Gallagher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/21/2014 01:07 PM, Haïkel Guémar wrote: Le 21/04/2014 18:37, Stephen Gallagher a écrit : I spoke too strongly there, I think. We do however give a *very* strong impression that using non-FOSS solutions for anything at all is unwelcome at

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-21 Thread Eric H. Christensen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 12:37:57PM -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote: On 04/21/2014 11:56 AM, Eric H. Christensen wrote: i packaging or otherwise making it easier for one to choose proprietary software. When we start pushing proprietary solutions

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-21 Thread Stephen Gallagher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/21/2014 01:37 PM, Eric H. Christensen wrote: On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 12:37:57PM -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote: On 04/21/2014 11:56 AM, Eric H. Christensen wrote: i packaging or otherwise making it easier for one to choose proprietary

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-21 Thread drago01
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 7:08 PM, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote: On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 12:37:57 -0400, Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.com wrote: I don't think it's unreasonable for us to allow them to use Chrome from the Google repository. I don't think it's unreasonable to

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-21 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 20:08:06 +0200, drago01 drag...@gmail.com wrote: going to be significantly modifying the graphics system ... what does that even mean? afaik it does not do any such a thing. It is just an X / SDL2 + OpenGL application like any other (just closed source). It does

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-21 Thread Michael Scherer
Le lundi 21 avril 2014 à 13:19 -0400, Stephen Gallagher a écrit : On 04/21/2014 01:08 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 12:37:57 -0400, Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.com wrote: But I think that trying to actively discourage (read: prevent) users from installing such

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-21 Thread Josh Boyer
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 11:02 AM, inode0 ino...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 7:36 AM, Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.com wrote: Lately, I've been thinking a lot about Fedora's Foundations: Freedom, Friends, Features, First, particularly in relation to some very sticky

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-21 Thread Stephen Gallagher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/21/2014 04:35 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 11:02 AM, inode0 ino...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 7:36 AM, Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.com wrote: Lately, I've been thinking a lot about Fedora's Foundations:

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-21 Thread inode0
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.com wrote: To boil it down: Is the Freedom Foundation too strict? (Alternately, are we reading it too strictly?) In other words, is our hard-line on only displaying FOSS solutions ultimately accomplishing our Mission to

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-21 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 21 April 2014 11:19, Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/21/2014 01:08 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 12:37:57 -0400, Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.com wrote: Does Fedora need to be that gateway OS?

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-21 Thread Josh Boyer
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 4:48 PM, Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/21/2014 04:35 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 11:02 AM, inode0 ino...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 7:36 AM, Stephen Gallagher

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-21 Thread Przemek Klosowski
On 04/21/2014 01:27 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: On 04/21/2014 01:07 PM, Haïkel Guémar wrote: We should think on how we could improve collaboration with third-party repos, fedmsg/copr might be part of the technical solution. How about a Fedora Partnership Program ? We could open up at a

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-21 Thread Simo Sorce
On Mon, 2014-04-21 at 17:50 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: Look, I think the Foundations are great. They remind us all of why we got into this to begin with (or most of us anyway). However, they are never going to completely cover all cases. They are broad. They project strength and conviction.