1. Where we are, where we’re goin’
Fedora
Where we are, where we’re goin’
Presented by
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA
Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license (CC-BY-SA)

2. Topics
A brief history of Fedora
Fedora today
The future of Fedora

3. A brief history of Fedora

4. Red Hat Linux Traditional all-in-one distribution
1994 (“Halloween”) (RHL 9)
Talk about state of computing and Linux market at the time: distribution on CD, ‘put all the bits in a box’ model...
Image license: GPLv3+

5. Fedora Core RHL 9 with the serial numbers filed off
Fedora Core 1: November 2003
Red Hat becoming larger, more enterprise-focused; wanted to retain link to hobbyist / enthusiast roots while focusing on enterprise-friendly server products for profit
Talk about core Fedora identity here: community-focused distribution able to act as an upstream for Red Hat enterprise products
Image license: GFDLv1.2+

6. Extras merge Fedora 7: merged Core and Extras
Core: critical components, RH-maintained
Extras: additional packages, RH- and community-maintained
Fedora 7 release: 2007
Infrastructure overhaul: Koji, Bodhi and live images

7. Fedora.next Fedora 21 (2014) Workstation, Server, Cloud
Identify key use cases, focus products and work around them
Website redesign, product shake-up

8. Other key events PPC: FC4 (2005), ARM: FC6 (secondary), F20
Release criteria: Fedora 13 (2009)
Dist-git: Fedora 14 (2010)
EC2 images: Fedora 14 (2010)
Systemd: Fedora 15 (2011)
GNOME 3: Fedora 15(!) (2011)
Installer newUI: Fedora 18 (2013)
Project Atomic: Fedora 20 (2013)

9. Community history FUDCon: 2005 - 2013 (NA), date (global)
Flock: date
FWN: , Magazine: date
Planet: 2004/2005? - date
Fedoraforum: 2004 – date
Ambassadors: 2005 – date
COPR: 2013(?) - date

10. Fedora today

11. Foundations
Freedom
Friends
“Wide general audience”

12. Distribution
Workstation, Server, Atomic, Spins...
x86, ARM

13. Workstation GNOME-based desktop distribution
Target: developers: “from hobbyists and students to corporate developers”
“Wide general audience”

14. Server For ‘traditional’ bare-metal / virtualized server systems
Cockpit management interface
Server Roles

15. Server: Cockpit

16. Atomic Host OStree-based core OS
Deployed on cloud instances, expected to run containerized applications
Variant, automated release cycle: new images based on current stable release every ~2 weeks, with automated testing
Talk about OStree stuff here.

17. Spins (etc) Alternate desktops and specialized environments
Total: 53 images (Fedora 25), 58 (current Fedora 26 nightly)

18. Lifecycle Releases every ~6 months
Releases supported till 1 month after next-but- one release comes out
Regular updates: security, bugfix, stable feature updates
Kernel point releases are shipped as updates
Upgrades supported via official tools

19. Infrastructure Buildsystem: dist-git, Koji Update system: Bodhi
Compose tooling: Pungi...
Messaging: Fedmsg, FMN
Forge: Pagure
Testing: Taskotron, openQA, Autocloud
Bug tracker, package review: Bugzilla

20. Community Packagers, developers, sysadmins Designers
Support volunteers
Translators
Testers
Ambassadors
Etc...

21. The future of Fedora

22. Challenges: new flows DOCKAH DOCKAH DOCKAH Language ecosystems
Differing lifecycles
OS / application isolation
In with the new, in with the old
Lessened importance of the OS
Talk about changes from the old world here: less interest in sourcing all software from the same place, updating it rarely and in lockstep

23. Challenges: old tools
We have a pipeline for producing a monolithic product built from RPMs
Can’t build smaller pieces rapidly
Missing infrastructure for full CI
No clear OS / app space separation
New capabilities hacked up ad hoc

24. Atomic Host: Trailblazer
Non-RPM-based core OS
OS / app separation
Rapid, mostly-automated releases
Running since Fedora 23
Mostly separate from...everything else

25. Plans Modularity Factory 2.0 Atomic Workstation Boltron
Increased automation / CI

26. Details Build system should know what inputs produce what outputs
More outputs: modules, Flatpaks…
CI: On change submission, produce test inputs, test them, gate change on results
Maintain benefits of existing tools

27. Summary Fedora was always great Fedora is great
Fedora will always be great
SUSE is green and slimy, boo SUSE

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