what is Seneca's OS responsibility?

Former Member over 13 years ago

Is Seneca under contract to support the Fedora Remix OS?

If so, what specific responsibilities beyond the initial release

do they have?

Are they responsible for X Window acceleration?

Are they responsible for eliminating sluggishness,

comparable to Debian and/or Arch?

Are they responsible for eliminating instabilities

such as frequent reboots?

Are they responsible for gcc?

Are they responsible for security updates?

Are they responsible for a bug tracking system?

zardoz99 over 13 years ago

See the responses to your other, similar, thread.

You are entitled to exactly the software R&D, QA and support that you are paying for...

Anything more is a bonus.
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zardoz99 over 13 years ago in reply to zardoz99
A further response to your last question.

http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/Raspberry_Pi_Fedora_Remix#Reporting_Bugs_and_Suggesting_Enhancements

Reporting Bugs and Suggesting Enhancements
Your help in identifying bugs and suggesting enhancements is very important! Please file your bug report/enhancement request:
for bugs related to Fedora packages: on the Fedora bugzilla system at http://bugzilla.redhat.com
for bugs related to Raspberry Pi-specific packages, the installer, or the Remix: on the FedoraHosted ARM Trac system at https://fedorahosted.org/arm/
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Former Member over 13 years ago in reply to zardoz99

It doesn't look like the problems that caused Farnell to pull the Fedora Remix download
are being tracked in this database.
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Former Member over 13 years ago in reply to Former Member

I'm not really sure where you are going with the original post. My read of the Fedora Remix effort is that it a non-profit effort just like the RPi foundation. Seneca College has been working on porting Fedora to ARM which is not an easy task. Much like any Linux distribution, there are standard processes for development, testing and releases, and I'm pretty sure the Seneca team is following them.
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Former Member over 13 years ago in reply to Former Member

There are good procedures in place for primary platforms, but ARM is not a primary platform,
so the procedures used seem pretty haphazard, and in any case were not successful.
In particular, the OS was released apparently without any beta testing.
Normally a linux distribution is released after considerable beta testing.
Normally part of the testing of a linux distribution is to compile itself,
but the RPi doesn't have enough memory, and Seneca doesn't have
enough RPi's. Apparently they don't have even a beta unit. The work they
did was apparently done mostly on guruplugs.

You are probably right that Seneca is a non-profit. But is it operating under
contract, with specific deliverables? Or is it mostly just unpaid volunteers
working as they find the available time?

Before Fedora was announced as the primary distro, we were told that
the announcement was waiting for contracts to be signed, which is why
I think there is probably a contract, but we have no idea what it calls for.
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what is Seneca's OS responsibility?

Reporting Bugs and Suggesting Enhancements