Hi everyone. The Fedora Council holds monthly video-based meetings where we host a report from one of our various subprojects or official objectives. This month, Langdon White presented on Modularity.

If you're a Fedora contributor busy in other areas and haven't paid much attention, you might be wondering what Modularity is, exactly. Modularity is an effort to address the "moves too fast! moves too slow!" issue that affects all operating systems, and an outgrowth of Fedora.next and a sort of descendant of the "Environments and Stacks" part of my "Fedora Rings" proposal from 2013.

This is a really nice, easy-to-understand presentation putting forward the goals of the initiative, the current state, and where we hope to have it for the upcoming Fedora 26 release and Fedora 27 later this year. If you package software in Fedora — and, particularly, something like a language or application stack where Fedora users might benefit from choosing between several supported versions — I really recommend checking this out.

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https://youtu.be/xqZftb2Wgi4 https://mattdm.fedorapeople.org/council/2017-03-22-Fedora_Council-Modularity... * when it's done encoding — VP9 is... apparently not speedy.

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https://langdon.fedorapeople.org/fedora-modularity-one-goal.pdf https://langdon.fedorapeople.org/fedora-council-modularity-update-20170322.p...

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https://docs.pagure.org/modularity/