On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 10:02:54PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 09:09:45AM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > Fedora is the development and test bed for RHEL much as Debian > > Testing is for Stable. > > That's not a perfect analogy by any means: Fedora is used as a test bed for > technology that later ends up in RHEL, yes, but that's the end of it. One is a > commercial product, the other a community-driven, desktop-oriented > distribution.
[1] says: The Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) is a community-elected body empowered by the Council to manage the technical features of the Fedora distribution and specific implementations of policy in the Fedora Project. [2] lists 9 current FESCo members, at least 3 of whose are Red Hat employees. Specifically, [3], [4] and [5]. [6] also has some interesting things to say about Red Hat involvement in Fedora. Describing Fedora as 'community-driven' distribution is a gross oversimplification. It's not that I disagree with initial assessment - they don't sell you Debian stable like Red Hat does for RHEL. Reco [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FESCo [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Engineering_Steering_Committee?rd=FESCo [3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ausil [4] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Kevin [5] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Sgallagh [6] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Council
