> Thanks for the detailed answer. Very useful. I've come to some of the same 
> conclusions/solutions.
> 
> I wanted to mention this source of friction since Fedora targets devs/ops 
> people and they will expect that something as prevalent as a LEMP stack is a 
> very smooth experience.

It shows up quickly @LEMP, cuz "we all" use it.  But, it's a bigger discussion.

To be very fair, Fedora's packages are generally in far better @distro shape 
than other distros ... in large part because they're built _on_ Fedora.

Which are among the primary reasons I've recently finished distro-migration of 
a _lot_ of boxes TO Fedora.

Re: the 'smooth experience' ...

For my tastes, Fedora's end-user pkg build experience -- specifically, the lack 
of smooth integration 'tween Pagure & COPR, as well as some missing 
capabilities (compared to what I was used to on other-distro) -- has room to 
grow.
The devs seem amenable, but are vastly under-resourced IMO.  For my money, 
better Fedora support ==> more Redhat support contract adoption.

But that's a corporate Redhat/IBM issue that they've yet to come to terms with 
and focus on.  Unless you're a bank, airline, government, etc :-/

Afaict (and I'm still kinda new 'here'), projects -- at COPR typically, and at 
'official' repos, frequently -- are 'owned' by single users. And those 
single-users wear the maintainer & bug-wrangler hat & any other hats lying 
around.

Risk-and-effort-mitigating 'teams' of maintainers, bug-owners, etc are not 
easily found -- at least by me so far.  Again, different than what I'm used to.

Another source of tension/concern is that there are clearly some 
super-committers -- folks that 'maintain' scads of packages, &/or key 
infrastructure packages, and have become invaluable.  And for the very same 
reasons, a primary/significant source of risk.
  Add to that the occasional meltdown from stress, lack of support, etc and ... 
it's challenging.

IMO, though it'd be great to have Fedora 'guarantee' a "very smooth 
experience", it seems that that's not tenable (see again resources^^) today.

Groups of similarly-interested users seems a better option, but that's hard -- 
not impossible -- to organize inside the project.  That's part of the "rocks 
uphill" bit ...
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