[Mageia-dev] Identifying Target Markets

Fri Oct 1 10:11:43 CEST 2010

On Friday 01 October 2010, David W. Hodgins wrote:
+> 
+> In my opinion, Magiea's primary market should be linux developers,
+
+Yes and no.  I am a developer, using Mandriva all these years and want Mageia 
+also to be a _developer friendly_ distribution. But not a /developer oriented/ 
+like slackware or gentoo.
+
+For that target I would make a wishlist:
+ - Must be easy to keep in "production". That is, allow us to work every day 
+without major feature breakages. We want to develop our package, not be fixing 
+the Linux installation all of our time.
+ - Have all latest libs and packages, *available*. Not force us to use them by 
+default, but have recent things at the repos, so that we can pick them to 
+develop against.
+ - Have minimal obtrusion from the desktop, yet be powerful. Think of the 
+kde3,4 environment. We like the fact that we have a very rich text editor, 
+many commands and utilities. But, all these shouldn't take more than 5% of our 
+cpu, not take much memory. Because, our main work is *NOT* to search with 
+nepomuk, or waste our resources on plasmoids. Our work is to make the package 
+we are developing to compile, run, test etc. 
+ - Be easy to report bugs, work with the main team.
+
+I think Mandriva already was a good choice for the above wishlist. Keep that, 
+please.
+
+> I also think things like 3d, or "Desktop Effects" should be disabled by
+> default, as things like animating a window minimizing make the system
+> seem slow, even with good hardware.
+
+Defaults is not an issue. A developer should be experienced enough to switch 
+some things off and customize his system. As long as there *is* a switch for 
+that (and not the "you must use GL animations for your menu rendering" 
+mentality).
+
+
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