As discussed, we now have a Silverblue SIG! And the first meeting is on Monday, 5th June at 1400UTC. If you’d like to attend then please join #silverblue:fedoraproject.org on Matrix (#silverblue on LiberaChat IRC), where a Jitsi link will be shared to enter the meeting.
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As a starter topic (and a framework for submitting topics), I would like to propose:
Silverblue website updates
We’ve just got a great new website (thank you to everyone that participated in this issue and the associated pull request) but the text of the page still uses domain-specific language that describes “what” Silverblue is, but not “why” you should care.
I would like to propose that we rewrite the page, and I have two specific ideas:
Emphasise the idea that Silverblue is a “modern” approach to OS design.
Emphasise the relationship with containers and CoreOS.
Move words such as “immutable” and “atomic” down the page and away from the headings.
An example might be to change the header to “The beautiful Fedora desktop, re-engineered with CoreOS technology. Predictable, reliable and secure.”
Note that there is already an update going through the system here, which does some great work improving the text. This might be just supporting that work.
Bah, immediately add three topics to a single post. How do I this?
With the third topic, how does CoreOS do things? I’ve become intrigued by the idea that Silverblue could get closer to the “CoreOS way” - but I don’t know why it doesn’t currently work as essentially a Workstation edition of CoreOS, so.
Hello, as requested on Matrix, my changes waiting for Production for the Silverblue website are:
The top section “Why Go Immutable” and paragraph of text becoming bullet points and “Why Fedora Silverblue”
The Community page being re-done as the “Contributing” page.
The entire Kinoite page
There’s currently an MR for the difference between Staging and Main:
Outstanding from Allan’s original Github comment would be:
It would be better if the “Documentation” button was labelled “User Guide”
(Site-wide change, not specific to Silverblue)
If there’s opportunity, I’d also like to revisit the copy on the page. Three important goals there:
Clarify the relationship between Silverblue and Workstation.
Pitch Silverblue as more of an emerging technology as a opposed to a finished product.
Avoid silently assuming knowledge (the existing text assumes that the reader is familiar with how Linux distros work). This can be done by either framing the text in terms of the intended audience, or explaining the concepts in a more accessible way.
Hopefully 3 is addressed by the new bullet points. 1 I don’t know the exact answer to, and 2 we can discuss wording on.
We should probably talk about this too (ticket here) since I haven’t had any progress on the issue (I posted to the Fedora Respins channel and had no response).
We added a note to the downloads page but really we should ensure Silverblue ARM users have an ISO!
Given that it’s the first meeting of the Silverblue SIG, it would make sense to focus on organisational matters: goals, stakeholders, how to organise the meetings, etc.
Reminder that this is coming up today. This time around I’m mostly just going to see who shows up, and based on that we’ll go through this thread and I’ll minute the discussion
James: “This should be presented as an interest group rather than a developer team - we aren’t directing development on Silverblue, we’re bringing together stakeholders.”
Suggested that we think about this as part of the overall presentation of the variant, instead of in isolation.
Suggestion to open this up to the community
This needs to be structured to avoid unnecessary friction - polls?
Ultimately you need people with expertise to contribute to the design
Moving all things Silverblue (code & issue tracker) to Fedora namespace on GitLab
This is based on an existing ticket in the tracker. Benefit for Silverblue: Use a single place for all repos, issue tracker, sources, docs, etc.
Questions:
Is GitLab a general direction for Fedora?
Decision to move off Pagure due to lack of expertise within the project
Nothing “forcing” people, though (Fedora is a community, doesn’t force people)
Has the silverblue “team” decided to move to GitLab?
Tomas’s views would be valuable here, knows a lot of the history of the project
What is Fedora CoreOS doing?
Will likely stay on GitHub
Lots of integration and history
No clear benefit from moving to somewere else
What is Fedora Workstation doing?
Currently on Red Hat Bugzilla.
Plan to push bug reports upstream as much as possible.
Again, Tomas’s views would be valuable.
Missing ARM ISOs
This is based on an existing ticket in the tracker. We added a note to the downloads page but really we should ensure Silverblue ARM users have an ISO!
James has tried to get progress on this but it seems we need someone that knows how to build the ISOs (at which point the Respins group are happy to host them)
Need help!
Relationship between Silverblue and…
Workstation
“Silverblue is workstation with a different deployment mechanism” ~ Allan
Possible eventual replacement for Workstation
Workstation WG doesn’t work on Silverblue…
…but does consider Silverblue when designing for Workstation
Workstation WG is very busy!
Other immutable variants
Are Kinoite, Sericea, etc spins of Silverblue, or are we all variants of Workstation?
What should be in Silverblue?
(discussion branched off relationship question)
Minimal and “full” install suggested - like with Ubuntu Core
“Should we differ from Workstation”?
AOB?
Desire to get more WG people here for a few meetings.
Desire to get Silverblue “veterans” to attend some meetings.
Possibly set up a “virtual retreat” with them?
Once the group participants have firmed up
Desire to ensure participation is as wide as possible
Not excluding people based on timezone (is this the best time for the meeting?)
Not excluding people that can’t/won’t attend a sync meeting (utilise Discourse to continue discussion)
This discourse topic will serve as a basis for conversation around the meeting for 7 days after the meeting ends. At that point a new topic will be created to discuss/plan ahead of the next meeting, which is at June 19th at 1400UTC.
Thank you to everyone that joined and/or contributed! It was great to see you all!
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