[kde-community] Community vision and product vision

[Thomas Pfeiffer]

On Montag, 15. Februar 2016 22:02:18 CET Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> On Monday, February 15, 2016 18:41:14 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
> > My suggestion, therefore, is: Why don't those who are looking for a common
> > product direction band together and create one, which however is not
> > "mandatory" for all of KDE. Instead, any project that adheres to this
> > common product vision could publicly commit to it, and the suite made up
> > of all of these products could even create their own _product brand_
> > (within KDE as the community brand) to reflect that. That way, we can
> > have a collective product brand with a collective product vision without
> > having to exclude any project which follows the same _community vision_
> > out of KDE.
> > 
> > To me, this sounds like a win/win situation for all of us. What do you
> > think?
> 
> just a thought: if we go this way, I suggest we try whether we can get that
> done at once, and announce both together/at the same time.

Sure, why not?
The only potential problem I see with this is that finding a good common 
product vision might take a little more time, and I'd neither want to rush the 
product vision nor delay the publishing of the community vision too long.

Therefore, if we all decide to go this route, I'd suggest to start the product 
vision creation process right away and see how it goes. If that process goes 
well and it looks like the product vision can be finished soon, then I see no 
downside in publishing them at the same time (maybe in the same article, we 
could decide that later).

If, however, those working on the product vision decide that they would like 
to give themselves more time, it might be better to publish the generally 
agreed upon community vision with a remark that an overarching product vision 
is in the works and will be published soon.

Cheers,
Thomas