On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 08:30:51PM -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
Your last sentence ('rough edges that would dissuade a non-technical user') could almost be read as a description of the current Fedora releases.
Absolutely. We've done an awful job of providing a cohesive desktop operating system that's usable by mere mortals. I've just reinstalled Windows on my wife's laptop because Fedora had managed to sufficiently fuck up a stable upgrade that even I couldn't get things back into a reasonable state. Fixing that is vital for us to have any kind of user base at all.
My expectation is that we will have to put most of the attention on the 'satisfactory experience for casual home users' initially, before we even get to adding any of the 'marketable developer features', as the prd draft calls it.
If that was expressed in the PRD then I'd be completely happy. I'm not suggesting that satisfying developer requirements is a bad idea, just that describing developers as our primary focus will lead to people assuming that Fedora isn't for them.
It has to work first, before you can add bells and whistles.
Entirely agreed.