Matthew Miller, the Fedora Project Leader, has published a development strategy for Fedora outlining the goals and objectives for the next three years. The following areas will be the focus of the project:
- Resources for individuals with disabilities. Work is planned to improve the accessibility of documentation, applications developed by the project, and package building tools for this category of individuals.
- Community resilience: the development of mentorship; the implementation of tools for interaction and collaboration (transition to the Forgejo platform).
- Editions of the distribution: preparation of marketing articles; simplification of creating custom builds (application of bootc); refactoring of SIG (Special Interest Groups).
- Expansion: pre-installation of Fedora and support for hardware manufacturers; support for local communities; support for cloud service providers and continuous integration systems.
- Technical innovations: containers and Flatpak; atomic variants of desktop editions of the distribution; programming language ecosystems; artificial intelligence.
- Connections with ecosystems: collaboration with RHEL and CentOS; support for downstream projects; interaction with upstream projects.
In the coming months, they plan to launch four initiatives:
- Blocking releases of official Fedora editions when there are unaddressed issues affecting accessibility tools.
- The GitOps experiment proposes a new workflow for enhancing package building.
- Migration to the Forgejo collaborative development platform.
- Accessibility of toolkits for developing machine learning systems.
The next stage will see work on the following initiatives:
- Creating an archive of Bugzilla content. Red Hat is discontinuing the use of Bugzilla and plans to shut down the bugzilla.redhat.com service. Fedora will transition to the Forgejo platform for tracking bug fixes, but plans to create a Bugzilla archive to preserve the history of past issues.
- Using Discourse forums as the main platform for discussions, where discussions from mailing lists for developers and testers will be migrated.
- Switching to using Konflux for building containers instead of Koji.
- Enhancing marketing information about new features in various distribution releases.
- Expanding the Fedora Ready initiative to attract hardware manufacturers pre-installing Fedora.
- Funding activities to engage regional project advocates.
- Bringing Silverblue and Kinoite to the status of main desktop editions.
- Utilizing a common base system image in the CoreOS, IoT, and Atomic Desktop editions.
- Strengthening collaboration among Fedora, CentOS, and RHEL. Organizing a trilateral interaction to discuss ongoing work and issues affecting Fedora, CentOS, and RHEL.
Source: opennet.ru
