Fedora Editions

May 2015 Update

Goals of the

Fedora Editions

High-Level Goals

• Target specific user needs
• Widen contributor involvement
• Address new market segments

Release Engineering

Release Engineering

• Produce different install media
• Add support for different software defaults in each edition
• Support branding deliverables individually

Divergent Configuration

• Default filesystem layout
• Branding of install media
• Default software configuration

Quality Assurance

New QA Needs

• Improved smoketest automation
• New release criteria
• Testing resources from Edition SIGs

Workstation SIG

Fedora 21 and 22

• Better notifications and use of screen real estate
• Wayland improvements, now used for GDM
• GNOME Software
• Common theming between GNOME and KDE
• DevAssistant

Fedora 23+

• Non-comps application stacks
• Rollback capabilities

Cloud SIG

Fedora 21 and 22

• Reduced image size
• Improved Docker base image
• Atomic Host for Docker
• Automatic submission of AMIs
• Promotion of Fedora Cloud to Server
• User-reproducible image generation

Fedora 23+

• Improvements to Project Atomic
• Revisit and update PRD

Server SIG

Fedora 21 and 22

• Cockpit
• Domain Controller Role
• Database Server Role

Fedora 23+

• Domain Controller Replica
• Memcache Role
• File-sharing Role
• Cloud Storage Host Role
• Documentation of stable APIs
• API guarantees for "core platform"
• Stable upgrade testing

What's Next?

Fedora 23

• PRD Update for all Editions
• Improve communication
• Enhance automated testing

Questions?