[indiana-discuss] Release roadmap

[Eric Boutilier]

On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Ian Murdock wrote:
> 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. 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. And yes I got convicned that packaging is a
>> necessarily vil part of it ;) But neither GNOME nor KDE are.
>
> I agree with Patrick: It's both. The reason you don't start with the
> core is because the core, by itself, isn't interesting and doesn't help
> with the larger problem of attracting users and increasing developer
> mindshare. That is priority #1. Indiana is about broadening the userbase
> first and creating a core for other distros second. The
> latter is just a byproduct of the former and isn't the primary goal here

But I interpret this as you and Michael saying exactly the same thing. The
long-term goal (aka ultimate goal, holy grail, whatever) is an
all-singing-all-dancing developer/sysadmin desktop, the near-term goal is a
core with a network repository based packaging system.

Eric