[indiana-discuss] Release roadmap

Eric Boutilier Eric.Boutilier at Sun.COM
Wed Jun 20 09:04:09 PDT 2007


On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Michal Bielicki wrote:
> Patrick Finch wrote:
>>
>>
>> Michal Bielicki wrote:
>>> [...]
>
>>> Are we creating a desktop system ? Or are we creating a core reference
>>> platform which could be the base of a desktop system, server system or
>>> whatever ?
>>>
>>> Still confused
>>
>>
>> Maybe I'm the one who is confused.  I'd imagined we were creating
>> both, in the same way that Fedora and Ubuntu work today, a distro and
>> a base for other distros.  But I'm not claiming a monopoly on
>> understanding.
>>
>> Do you see an inconsistency with that, or are you concerned that it is
>> not sufficiently focused?
>>
> I would say it scares me to bits.

Me too.

> It sounds like one more try to create the egg laying wool milk pig. 
> To say it maybe a bit too drastic, why not start with the core and work our
> way out to the overlays ?  I still vote for a core core thing and not for a
> I can do it all thing.

+1 to that concept (again).

Eric


> And yes I got convicned that packaging is a
> necessarily vil part of it ;) But neither GNOME nor KDE are.
>
> Just my 2pence
>
> M.
>
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