Fedora.next - An Introduction

Keynote at FOSSASIA 2014

Transcript

1. An Introduction
   Truong Anh Tuan
   Presented by
   Member of FAmSCo and Fedora Server WG
   License statement goes here. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing#Content_Licenses for acceptable licenses.
   Fedora.next
   

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2. Positive Brand
   Strong User and
   Developer
   Community
   10 Successful Years
   F20 Release Well
   Received
   Fedora is Awesome
   

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3. Meanwhile, out in the
   world...
   10 million repos on
   GitHub
   Base OS considered
   boring
   Distro effort/reward
   balance changed
   Not just us: Debian,
   Ubuntu, openSUSE,
   Slackware all no
   longer cool
   Phones! Tablets!
   Android! ChromeOS!
   Cloud! EC2!
   OpenStack! GCE!
   Containers! Docker!
   CoreOS!
   

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4. What exactly is
   "Fedora.next"?
   A word for a bit of planning and direction-
   setting — instead of running ahead without
   looking around
   No secret agenda (except Fedora success,
   which isn't too secret)
   Open to your contributions
   Going to take a few years, with incremental
   improvement
   

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5. Fedora's Mission
   The Fedora Project's mission is to lead the
   advancement of free and open source
   software and content as a collaborative
   community.
   Are we positioned to do that over the next
   decade?
   

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6. Additive, not Restrictive
   We do a pretty good job of making the base
   distro
   Collection of packages is (mostly) high quality
   So:
   What can we do outside of that?
   How can we make what we do have even
   better?
   

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7. More Questions!
   Positive voice for server and cloud?
   RHEL and CentOS link?
   General trend towards base = boring?
   Difficulty building things on top?
   Barriers to entry in the wrong place?
   Balance of innovation vs change management?
   

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8. Multi-level "Rings"
   Approach
   Central Core ("Base
   Design")
   Ring 2: Environments
   & Stacks
   Future: Ring 3
   applications
   Ring 0
   JeOS
   

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9. Why?
   Innovation vs. change management
   Reduce barriers to entry
   Make it easier to be on Fedora without being
   in
   And hopefully, make it easier to be part
   without being in the distro as it stands today
   

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10. Products Proposal
    Fedora Workstation (or Client, Desktop)
    Fedora Server
    Fedora Cloud (Shiny!)
    

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11. Why?
    Voice for Server
    User focus for Workstation
    Cloud can be more radical
    

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12. Pieces vs. Sets
    

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13. More Sets...
    We can ship sets... without taking away the
    basic blocks.
    

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14. More Why
    Grow the user base in these areas
    Easier development target
    Server can be more connected to future RHEL
    

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15. Governance
    Working groups
    One each for the products
    One for the base design
    One for environments & stacks
    SIGs are still a thing
    FESCo, FPC, Design, QA, etc., still there
    

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16. Current State
    Product PRDs accepted by FESCo, waiting on
    board
    Next step is planning for F21
    changes we might want
    what we can do now
    and how we'll do it.
    Still plenty of room for input and help
    

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17. More Information
    http://mattdm.org/fedora/next2014/ and
    http://mattdm.org/fedora/next/ (Thanks to
    Matthew Miller)
    Fedora.next wiki page:
    https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora.next
    YouTube videos “Fedora.next update at
    DevConf CZ 2014”: http://ur1.ca/gpa9g
    

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18. Questions?
    License statement goes here. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing#Content_Licenses for acceptable licenses.
    tuanta@fedoraproject.org
    Contact:
    

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