Talk:Fedora Project

Red Hat/Fedora Linux Community Reaction
The following is biased and difficult to prove as fact.
 * The discontinuation of Red Hat Linux in favor of Fedora Core caused a controversy in the Linux community. Many thought that Red Hat was simply dropping its established user base and moving on to the enterprise market, leaving existing users with no upgrade option. The situation has since become somewhat less confused, although this misconception is still common amongst some.
 * 1) "Many thought" is a weasel phrase.
 * 2) "The situation has since become somewhat less confused" Has it? Who thinks so and why?
 * 3) "This misconception" Is it a misconception? Amongst some... who is some?

The above paragraph should be redone, so that it shows how the RedHat distribution worked before and after the Fedora change. It should try to state facts.

Article needs improvement
As shown in the WikiProject Linux page, this article should be improved. It needs considerable work and must be promoted to a B-class article. Pmlinediter (talk) 07:43, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Previous Project
There was a short previous incarnation of the Fedora project:


 * Archived version of the homepage
 * "Fedora Community Proposal v0.0.2" from there

IIRC, RedHat wanted to make its own community project. Merjing with the existing Fedora project seemed like a good idea. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tzafrir (talk • contribs) 19:43, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
 * OK. Found a slightly better source in a slightly newer version of that page. Big thanks to the Internet Archive :-) Tzafrir (talk) 20:06, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

Significant update requested
This article could use a lot of work. However, as current Fedora Project Leader, I have a significant conflict of interest. :)


 * 1) Contributor numbers could be updated from https://mattdm.org/fedora/2016flock/StateofFedoraAugust2016-v160731a.pdf
 * 2) It would be nice to have some mention of Mission, Vision, and Foundations -- https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Foundations
 * 3) We have much more interesting history than one security intrusion many years ago. For example, development of the new mission and vision statements in 2010 and update from original mission
 * 4) In addition to the Fedora operating system and its editions, we also produce EPEL
 * 5) The Governance section could be expanded to talk about technical governing committee FESCo, the ambassador's steering committee FAmSCo, and etc., and in general about our structure around Working Groups and SIGs.
 * 6) In addition to FUDCon, we also have Flock https://flocktofedora.org/ -- the events section could discuss that and the history of FUDCons, as well as Fedora Activity Days

Matthew Miller (talk) 17:18, 21 November 2016 (UTC)


 * I think I got through the majority of these however I'm unfamiliar with and found nothing on working groups/SIGs with a cursory examination of your site, so if you'd like more on that please provide a link. Otherwise I believe I covered all of the necessary updates. Mehmuffin (talk) 17:09, 31 May 2017 (UTC)