On Fri, 5 Nov 2021 at 17:41, Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 05, 2021 at 10:24:22AM -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: > > What I'm asking is whether Fedora, as an organization, is interested > > in working with prominent vendors to determine whether there are > > barriers to publishing software for Fedora, or whether they perceive > > insufficient value in doing so. And, beyond those questions, is > > there anything we can do as an organization to help change that > > situation? > > I've got thoughts! :) > > 1. I think we have some historical wariness of this, because a while ago, we > put in a big effort around this and it failed. See > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ISV_Special_Interest_Group, which currently > says "This page was last edited on 12 June 2010, at 22:15." (It won't in a > second, as I'm adding the {{old}} macro right now...). Former FPL Greg > DeKoenigsberg > has some thoughts on why this failed, written about two years after that. > https://gregdekspeaks.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/why-the-fedora-isv-sig-never-caught-fire/ >
After being a flatpak app maintainer for a few years, Greg's article was well worth the reread. Flatpak has really nailed some of these points (e.g. targeting all distros with a single build/release process, binary dependency predictability, etc)... From an ISV perspective Flatpak is a *much* better value for money prospect than in-distro packaging. -- Mat Booth http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
