flock 2015: what does red hat want?
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What Does Red Hat Want
A Semi-Philosophical Look at the Fedora – Red Hat Relationship
Denise DumasVP, Platform Engineering (RHEL) Flock - August 2015
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Red Hat Knows What the Enterprise Values
● Stability
● Scalability
● Performance
● Security
● Certified, widely available hardware
● Manageability
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Our RHEL Customers Value Stability Yet Demand Innovation
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Fedora = Innovation
A chance to participate in distro-wide experiments● Fast moving● More than Red Hat ideas ● Community .gt. Red Hat
● A chance to try different approaches ● To see what various audiences prefer● To help work the bugs out● To prepare for RHEL● e.g. Fedora Editions
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Red Hat Mission
To be the catalyst in communities of customers, contributors, and partners creating better technology the open source way.
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Did You Know?
Red Hat's Business Code of Conduct and Ethics includes a clause that specifically allows participation in open source projects
● Not a conflict of interest for employees
● Employees can put project interests over company interests where necessary
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OpenSource to Enterprise
RED HAT JBOSS
MIDDLEWARE
RED HAT
STORAGE
RED HAT
ENTERPRISE LINUX
RED HAT
OPENSTACK
RED HAT
ENTERPRISEVIRTUALIZATION
RED HAT
SATELLITE
RED HAT
CLOUDFORMS
IaaS
PaaS
1M+projects*
* www.blackducksoftware.com/oss-logistics/choose
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Fedora + Red Hat = Truly Open
We all win when it happens in public
●No big secret agenda ● Sometimes lousy communication● We're working to make that better
● Why?● Because Red Hat succeeds when Fedora does● And Fedora succeeds when Red Hat does
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Goals for RHEL.next
No big secret agenda
● Composition changes for the distro●Modularity●Dependency management●Packaging updates
● Even more security
hardened
● Easy to update from
release to release
● Automated composition
Red HatConfidential -
NOT!
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Goals for RHEL.next
A few specific technical areas so far: NOT
● Atomic
● IPV6 through the stack
● Python3
● Seamless DNF integration for sysadmins
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How Red Hat Supports Fedora
● 35 fulltime people across releng, IT, QE, more
● MANY part time people – 100s of engineers working in Fedora
● Maintainers and QE ● Press and marketing
● Sponsorship
● Hardware Infrastructure – just this year added $144K in new hardware, plus power, maintenance etc
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Truth
We do not do this as a charity
● Fedora furthers our Open Source mission
● Fedora directly benefits our product
● Fedora is much more than a beta for RHEL – it is part of our mission to promote open source software development
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What Red Hat Hopes For
● A community that considers the status quo a hurdle, not a goal
● A constantly adapting and evolving community - Fedora will never be "done"
● Positive, constructive dialog
● Interest, feedback, useful ideas
● Community participation
● Community growth
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What Red Hat Plans
● To communicate clearly with one voice as best we can
● Positive, constructive dialog
● To be clear and open about our desired technical outcomes
● To understand when things don't go our way
● To put our money where our mouth is
● To send patches
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What does Red Hat want?To work better with Fedora,
to create the operating system for the next 10 years
Thank You