Hi, So after going over the emails on this list and looking over the PRD I have tried to clarify the Mission statement. The new text should hopefully both make it even clearer that general users are welcome to use Fedora and at the same point by using the term 'Fedora Workstation Working Group' instead of 'We' I made it more clear that the goal of the PRD is to govern the work of the working group, not the use of the individual users of the product.
Christian
Christian Schaller (cschalle@redhat.com) said:
So after going over the emails on this list and looking over the PRD I have tried to clarify the Mission statement. The new text should hopefully both make it even clearer that general users are welcome to use Fedora and at the same point by using the term 'Fedora Workstation Working Group' instead of 'We' I made it more clear that the goal of the PRD is to govern the work of the working group, not the use of the individual users of the product.
Currently, the doucment says:
... We want to create a stable, integrated, polished and user friendly system that can appeal to a wide general audience. ...
Target audience
General: Programming Environment: web languages and tools, open source databases, IDE, Compilers, debug tools, performance monitoring ...
That doesn't read as a 'general' audience - maybe unfortunate word choice with the re-use of 'general' here? Suggest:
... Target Audience
Developers: Common Environment: web languages .. performance monitoring Desktop apps should be sufficient ...
Developer case 1: Student
Developer case 2: ... ...
Overall, the mission statement does read better. I would still be concerned that when the document itself states:
"... special focus on providing a platform for development ..." "... welcome feedback and requests as long as it doesn't negatively impact our developer target and we have [free resources]"
that it can be read as promoting a second class set of users.
Bill
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