Community and Project¶
- Strive to be a well-managed open-source project.
- Decentralized governance in line with what people expect:
- We should be able to pass most open source project health checks a typical OSPO would use when doing due diligence. We're not there yet but it's an achievable goal.
- Project resources designed to be shared and decentralized, no BDFL-like structures.
- Goal to join a foundation or cooperative that can ensure long-term viability of the project.
- Ensure that we're meeting our transparency goals, long-term trust is a goal for us, so we have to have processes in place to avoid the bus factor.
- Decentralized governance in line with what people expect:
- A well structured and diverse Community:
- Explicit Community Values and Code of Conduct.
- Be unique, we are not a distro:
- Indie distros are fun, but making distros is a soul-sucking exercise in frustration and pain.
- We want to give people what they want with a focus on sustainability and maintenance, more like "My expert linux friend set up my Fedora for me" than a fork or derivative.
- Members of the team have multiple decades of linux distro experience, distros are hard, so we're not making a "Linux distro."
Mission Statement
Our mission is not to get caught up in mission statements. A mission statement locks us into a certain mindset. We need to be nimble, because our audience changes faster than you can write a mission statement. Our mission: Just make Linux fun.
Relationship with Fedora¶
- We understand that, due to the nature of the software we include, we can never be endorsed by the Fedora project.
- This is fine, we're hot-rodders and tinkerers.
- Be a good partner for Fedora:
- We are doing things that Fedora cannot do; there will be Fedora maintainers who will disagree with at least some aspects of this project.
- Nevertheless, we exist, so we're going for it!
- We want to leverage as much QA from Fedora as possible, so we shouldn't ship kernel patches or any other thing that adds extra maintenance.
- Instead we encourage people to participate in Fedora, that's what it's there for.
- The vibe we're looking for is a speed shop, like Hoonigan, but we want to remain sustainable, the fork button is always there in github.